BRITISH JUNGERMANNOS. 
(J. resupinata.) 
the species is distinguished by the auricles being but little less than the leaves, which is certainly 
true ; but he unfortunately gives a second character, quite the contrary, the lateral situation of 
the calyces , which are undoubtedly terminal. Lamarck’s descriptions are particularly imperfect 
and unsatisfactory. 
J. resupinata has in many respects a resemblance to J. undulata, but is to be distinguished 
from it by its much smaller size, its procumbent mode of growth, and its nearly equal, concave, 
conduplicate, but not closely appressed, lobes. The entire margins of its leaves, and their figure, 
will always prevent it from being confounded with J. nemorosa and J. umbrosa. J. saxicola, 
of Schrader, a plant very abundant on the Continent, but one which has not yet been detected 
in Britain, approaches the present, species in color, and in the division of the leaf into two nearly 
equal lobes. Of this plant, however, the leaf is concave, and the lobes not conduplicate, but 
remarkably involute and pointed. 
It has been in another place observed, that the figure in English Botany named 
J. resupinata, belongs to J. nemorosa: Dr. Smith, like Roth, probably relying upon Dillenius, 
describes the fructification of his species as usually growing from the side of the stem ; but this, 
as far as I have had the opportunity of remarking, is always, as above remarked, terminal, 
though it is probable that it may occasionally have the appearance of being lateral, when a 
young shoot originates immediately beneath it. 
The male fructification I had no opportunity of seeing, till some time after the plate was 
engraved, so that it could not there be inserted. 
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
FIG. 
1. J. resupinata, natural size. 
2,2. The same, magnified 
3. Portion of the stem and leaves 
4. Leaf 
5. Perichcetial leaf, with the lobes expanded 
6. Cauline leaf, with the lobes expanded 
7. View, from behind, of the extremity of a fertile stem 
8. Side view of a calyx, longitudinally dissected 
9. Calyptra containing the young capsule 
10. Barren pistilla 
11. Seeds and spiral filaments 
