Muscr Exortict.—Menziesiani. 
JUNGERMANNIA PENDULINA. 
Jungermannia caule erecto pinnatim ramoso, ramis pen- 
dulis flagelliformibus, foliis superne imbricatis stipulis- 
que valde concavis rotundatis quadrifidis. (Tas. LX.) 
Has. In sinu Dusky Bay dicto, in Nova Zeelandia. D. Menzies, 
1791. 
Caulis palmaris et ultra, erectus, flexuosus, rigidus, pinnatim ra- 
mosus, ramis distichis, quandoque secundis, simplicibus, vel 
basin versus iterum divisis, attenuatis, flagelliformibus, apice 
foliis destitutis. Folia flavo-viridia, superne. sublaxe imbti- 
cata, rotundata, vel subquadrata, valde convexa, acute quadri- 
fida, segmentis integerrimis. Sulstantia reticulata, areolis 
parvis. Stipule magne, foliis similes sed minores, segmentis 
ongioribus. Fructus non vidi. 
nm RR ne 
Totally different at first sight as this Jungermannia may ap- 
pear from J. reptans; yet when the leaves and stipules come to 
be minutely examined, the similarity between them is so great, 
that I hardly know whether I am warranted in making this a di- 
stinct species. The marks upon which I rest my doing thus are, 
the much greater size of J, pendulina; its erect habit; its being 
regularly pinnated, with flagelliform and pendulous branches bare 
of leaves towards the extremities; and lastly, the difference of 
texture, which is here composed of small distinct reticulations, 
while in J. reptans the substance is elegantly dotted. 
I may here observe that the J. cupressina of Swartz, whose 
description will be found in many points to accord with this spe- 
cies, does not appear to me to have any character which can 
essentially distinguish it from J. reptans, which is found in va- 
rious distant countries, 
Fig. I, plants nat, size. Fig. 2, portion of the stem with leaves. 
Fig. B, leat, Fig. 4, stipule, Fig. 5, extremity of a leaf, to show 
the reticulation.—magn. 
