BRITISH JUNGERMANNIiE 
(J. exsecta.J 
JUNGERMANNIA EXSECTA. 
(TAB. XIX.) 
Jungermannia, caule prostrato, simpliciusculo : foliis distichis, imbricatis, horizontalibus, 
concavis, ovatis, acutisj margine liinc unidentato. 
Jungermannia exsecta. Schmidel, leones, p. 241. t. 62. f. 2. Schrader, Syst. Samml. 
Lief. ii. p. 98? 
Jungermannia globulifera. var. i. Roth, Germ. m. p. 381. 
Jungermannia foliis bidentatis, in apice fragifera. Hall. Helv. t. iv. p. 59. (excl. syn.J 
Hab. Moist and especially boggy heaths in various parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, as 
Holt and Edgefield Heaths (where it was for the first time discovered in England 
by Rev. R. B. Francis), and Mousehold Heath in the former county. In Suffolk 
Mr. Turner finds it near Yarmouth : it is also abundant on Westleton Heath, near 
Dunwich. — Near Bantry. Miss Hutchins. 
Plant firmly attached to the earth in small scattered patches, which are frequently disposed in a 
somewhat stellated form, and are rendered conspicuous by their yellow hue, or, in the 
globuliferous specimens, by the reddish color of the gemma;. 
Root consisting of thick tufts of minute, whitish, simple fibres, issuing copiously from 
every part of the under side of the shoots, which are often, as Mr. Francis remarks, 
affixed to each other by means of these radicles. 
Stems prostrate, not much exceeding a quarter of an inch in length, fragile, greenish, 
densely cellular, simple, or sometimes, though rarely, producing a small shoot near 
the base.' 
Leaves (f. f. 4. 5) rather closely imbricated, distichous, patent or horizontal, about the 
third of a line long, gradually however becoming smaller towards the base of the plant, 
where they closely surround and firmly embrace the stem, so as entirely to conceal it : 
