Musci Exoric:3.—Menziesiani. 
JUNGERMANNIA ERIOCAULA. 
Jungermannia caudice compresso lineari pubescente, 
frondibes alternis ovatis bipinnatis, — angustis li- 
nearibus glabris, nervo crasso, fructu axillari, calyce 
nullo,? corolla lineari-oblonga carnosa. (Tas. LX XII.) 
Haz. In sinu Dusky Bay dicto, apud Novam Zeelandiam. 
D. Menzies, 1791. 
Caudex repens vel procumbens, 3-6-pollicaris, linearis, flexu- 
osus, compresso-planus, ubique pubescens, fuscus. Frondes 
numerose, alternz, distiche, patentes, rarius uno latere spec- | 
tantes, ovate, bipinnate, fuscz, pinnis linearibus, angustis, ob- 
tusis, carnoso-membranaceis, minute reticulatis, integerrimis, 
glabris, nervo crasso, intensiore fusco. Calyx nullus? Corolla 
lineari-oblonga, subcurvata, carnosa, hic illic corporibus pis- 
tilliformibus obsita. 
The first aspect of the plant now under consideration induced 
me to believe it not specifically different from the J. fucoides of 
Swartz, which name is equally applicable to the present species, 
as it bears, both in texture and ramification, a great resemblance 
to the Fucus cristaius y of Turner. But a more careful inspec- 
n, with a view to the drawing and description, satisfied me 
+bae T had fallen into an error; for not only are the segments of 
the fronds narrower,—with nevertheless a broader nerve, which 
gives to the whole plant a more carnose appearance,—but, what 
is a more important character, the caudex (or rachis of Swartz) 
which in J, fucoides is smooth, may in this species be observed 
to be covered on both sides with a short, brownish or ash- 
coloured pubescence, very apparent under a magnifying Jens. 
In those pubescent Jungermanni@ whose foliaceous branches, 
if 1 may thus express myself, arise from a trunk of a different or 
firmer texture, as is the case in J. flabellata, J. trichomanis, and 
the present species, I find the structure so very similar to that of 
many individuals of the fern tribe, that I cannot do better than 
employ the same terms for different parts of the plant as are 
adopted by i oon in his volume on the Ferns in the 
Species Plant 
Fig. 1, plants, nat. size. Fig. 2 2, fronds, and portion of the 
caudex. * Fig. 3, segment of a frond. Fig. 4, corolla. Fig. 9, 
young capsule,—magn. 
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