BRITISH JUNGEIlMANNIiE. 
( J . connivens .) 
JUNGERMANNIA CONNIVENS. 
(TAB. XV.) 
J ungekmannia, sui'Culo procumbente, stellatim ramoso; foliis orbicularibus, concavis, apice 
lunulari-emarginatis : fructu in ramis propriis, brevissimis, centralibus terminali; calycibus 
oblongo-ovatis; ore ciliato. 
Jungermannia connivens. Dicks. Crypt. Fasc. iv. p. 19. 1. 11. /. 15. 
Hab. In umbrosis liumidis. Mr. Dickson, 1. c. — In boggy places in the neighborhood 
of Holt and Edgefield, Norfolk. Rev. R. R. Francis— At Westleton, Suffolk, among 
Sphagna and other mosses. — I have also received specimens gathered by Mr. Templeton, 
near Belfast, and by Mr. Mackay, from a marsh in Cunnamara. — New Forest, Hants. 
Mr. Lyell. 
Obs. The fructification is produced in April, and very profusely in May, according to the 
observations of Mr. Lyell. 
This Plant grows in small and loosely-entangled patches, of a pale yellowish green hue, 
throwing out here and there, from the whole length of its under surface. 
Roots, which consist of minute, whitish, simple, and pellucid fibres. 
Surculi filiform, flexuose, procumbent, varying from half an inch to an inch, or even 
to an inch and half in length ; in certain situations, about the twentieth part of a 
line in diameter, semi-pellucid, cellulose, of a texture equally delicate with that of the 
leaves: the primary ramification, as in the congeners of this species ( J . bicuspidata, 
curvifolia, and byssacea), is disposed in a somewhat stellated form, the branches being 
often again simply divided by subpatent ramuli, or, as may be seen in f. 3, producing 
small innovations. 
The Leaves (f. 5), which have a bifarious insertion, are patent or erect, and more or 
less distantly placed, extremely minute, measuring from the fifteenth to the tenth of 
a line in length, orbicular, but decurrent at the base, above concave, convex below, 
cleft at the extremity by an orbicular notch in a very unusual manner, so that the 
segments are connivent ; whence t lie name. The substance of the leaf appears 
peculiarly succulent and subcarnose, the cellules large, irregularly subquadrate, theii 
surfaces slightly prominent. The color is a very pale yellowish green. 
