Musci Exorici.—Menziesiani. 
JUNGERMANNIA PHYLLANTHUS. 
_ Jungermannia stipitata, frondibus ovato-lanceolatis sim- 
plicibus nervosis integerrimis, fructu e costa superiori 
frondis basin versus, calyce duplice, ext. parvo squa- 
moso, 7¢.oblongo cylindraceo earnoso. (Tas. XCV.) 
Has. Insinu Dusky bay dicto, in Nova Zeelandia. D. Men- 
ztes, 1791. 
Caudex repens, hic illic radicibus tomentosis obtectus, Stipites 
plurimi ex eodem caudice subunciales, filiformes, flexuosi, sub- 
erecti, glabri vel radicibus tomentosi. rons uncialis fere 
longa, ovato-lanceolata, carnoso minute reticu- 
& > VOU 
lata, fusco-viridis, margine undulata, omnino integerrima, basi 
attenuata, apice obtusa, nervo tenui obscuro percursa. Fruc- 
tus e basi frondis ortus ct e parte anteriore nervi. Calyx 
duplex, ext, parvus, squamosus, iné. tres lineas longus, oblon- 
go-cylindraceus, carnosus, fuscus, ore lacerato, Corolla cylin- 
dracea, membranacea, albida, corporibus pistilleformibus ob- 
tecta. Sela subbiuncialis. Capsula oblongo-cylindracea, 
fusca, 4-valvis, valvis non raro apicibus cohzrentibus. 
This species, again, like J. rhizobola, is most clearly allied to 
J. Lyellii, and hibernica, differing however essentially from them 
in the presence of a caudex and stipes, in the much thicker tex- 
ture of the frond, as well as in its different outline. 
Fig. 1, sterile plant ; and Fig. 2, 2, fertile plants, mat, size. 
Fig. 3, fertile plant. Fig. 4, inner calyx dissected to show the. 
corolla, Fig, 5, portion of a frond.—magn. 
