Muscti Exoricti.—WMenziesiani. 
JUNGERMANNIA QUADRIPARTITA. 
Jungermannia caule erecto subdichotome ramoso flexu- 
oso, foliis undique insertis distantibus erecto-patulis 
4-partitis, segmentis capillaribus integerrimis vel basi 
sublaciniatis. (Tas. CXVII.) 
Haz. In insula Staten Land dicta, prope Cape Horn, D. Men- 
xies, 1787. 
Caules vix unciam longi, filiformes, erecti, rigidi, nigri, flexuosi, 
subdichotome ramosi, ramis plerumque simplicibus flexuosis. 
Folia (apicibus ramorum exceptis ubi flavescentia sunt) intense 
nigro-viridia, undique inserta, distantia, erecta, vel erecto-pa- 
tentia, ad basin fere quadripartita, segmentis divaricatis, ca- 
pillaribus aut paululum attenuatis, integris vel basi solummodo 
laciniatis, laciniis brevibus horizontalibus recurvisque ; sub- 
stantia areolis parvis reticulata, segmentis quasi articulatis, 
(ns EES a 
There are smaller leaves mixed with the larger ones in this 
plant, which I should be disposed to consider as stipules, if they 
were placed with any sort of regularity. Asa species it is very re- 
markable, coming nearer than any other to J. setiformis, Brit, 
Jung. (Tas.XX.) in the quadrifid division of the leaf. Its colour 
is peculiarly black, except at the apices which are yellow-green, 
Fig. 1, 1, 1, 1, plants, mat. size. Fig, 2, portion of a stem 
and leaves. Fig, 3, 3, leaves, —magn. 
