BRITISH J UN GERM ANN I AS. 
( J. pumila.J 
JUNGERMANNIA PUMILA. 
(TAB. XVII.) 
Jungermannia, caule ascendente, simpliciusculo : foliis clliptico-ovatis : fructu terminali ; 
calycibus oblongo-ovatis, acuminatis ; ore contracto, denticulato. 
Jungermannia pumila. With. iii. p . 866. t. 18./. 4. Engl. Bot. 2230. 
Lichenastrum Trichomanis facie minus, ab extremitate florens. Dill. Muse. t. 70. /. 10. 
A. b. c. ? ( excl, syn.J 
p. nigricans ; caulibus ramosis, foliis remotioribus, nigricantibus. 
Hab. Cwm Idwell. Mr. Griffith, in With.- — On mountains near Bantry, Ireland. Miss 
Hutchins. — Near Belfast. Mr. Templeton.— Both Dr. Stokes and Dr. Taylor find it in 
the Dargle, near Dublin.— On rocks at Studley, Yorkshire.— (3. On Craigalleach, in 
Breadalbane. 
Obs. It produces capsules in May and June. 
The Plant grows in small and loosely-entangled patches, here and there sending forth, from 
the under side of the stem. 
Roots, which are simple, pellucid, and of a whitish color. 
Stems about half an inch in length and the tenth of a line in diameter, either wholly 
procumbent, or, as is generally the case, ascendant towards the extremity; for the 
most part simple, though occasionally divided, and in Var. (3 (f. 8) not unfrequently 
throwing out young shoots from their sides. 
Leaves about the third of a line in length, rather closely placed, especially in a; their 
position varying from horizontal to erect, not only in different individuals but often 
on the same plant ; their figure ovate, approaching to elliptical, sometimes nearly 
round: in fertile specimens the uppermost are the largest (f. 3) ; in barren ones the 
contrary is the case (f. 8) : all of them are somewhat concave, and at the base semi- 
amplexicaul ; at the extremity I have, in two or three instances, remarked a slight 
and very obtuse notch, but whether it arose from accident or not I am unable to 
