J. Tamarisci. J 
BRITISH JUNGERMANNLE. 
The male fructification of this species, as well as the last, was found by Mr. Lyell, at 
the same time and place as is described under J. dilatata. I shall, in a future number, have 
occasion to notice the anthers of J. platyphylla, also communicated to me by that gentleman. 
Except Micheli, I am not aware that any writer has taken notice of the male organs of these 
three species. In his work, the Genera Plantarum, they are figured of the natural size in a very 
satisfactoiy manner, but in the magnified representation the author has completely failed, and, 
indeed, does not appear to have seen, in any of the species, the filament of the anther. 
To those who are acquainted with Micheli's system, it will be needless to mention that this 
acute observer mistook the male fructification for the female ; yet the error into which he has 
fallen has not prevented him from making many interesting discoveries, relative to the fmctifi- 
cation of this genus of plants, and such as seem to have escaped the researches of almost 
eveiy subsequent writer upon the subject. 
Necker’s J. rubiginosa, upon the authority of a specimen which Mr. Turner has received 
from Dr. Esper, is nothing more than our J. Tamarisci. 
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REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
FIG, 
1. J. Tamarisci, barren plant, natural size. 
2. Fertile plant, natural size. 
3. The same magnified 
4. Portion of a surculus 
5. Leaf and auricle of a fertile shoot 
6. 6. Perichcetial leaves 
7- Stipule 
8. Under side of part of a fertile branch 
9. Upper side of the same, and capsule 
10. Calyx, under side 
11. Calyptra $ 
12. Style ^ 
13. Spiral fi laments, each in its tube 
14. Seeds 
6 
4 
2 
2 
2 
4 
4 
3 
2 
1 
1 
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