(J. infiata.J 
BRITISH JUNGERMANNIAE. 
Leaves (f. 6) more or less closely placed* * * § in a bifarious manner, generally most distant in 
the lower part of the plant ; the upper ones somewhat imbricated, horizontal, patent or 
even erect, frequently concave, occasionally remarkably so (see f. 7), sometimes also plane 
or recurved; they are divided for nearly one half (or rather less) of the way down from 
the apex, by an acute sinus, into two obtuse and strait segments. The cellules are small, 
roundish. The color varies from a pale yellow-green (if the plant grow in a much 
sheltered spot) to an olive-green, or a brownish-black. 
Perigonial leaves produced at the extremity of the plant, where they are closely imbricated 
and ventricose at the base. In other respects they exactly resemble the rest. 
Perichatial leaves remarkable in being smaller than the other leaves, which they otherwise 
resemble. Two or three of them closely embrace the base of the calyx. 
Male Fructification f. Anthers are found in the axillae of the perigonial leaves, of a spherical 
form, of a pale olive-green color, reticulated, supported upon a footstalk, which is transversely 
striated, and about equal in length to the anther. 
Female Fructification terminal, though occasionally appearing lateral from the peculiar insertion 
of an innovation. 
Calyx large in proportion to the size of the plant, half or three-quarters of a line long, at 
first nearly spherical, at length pyriform or obovate, with a lengthened and tapering base, 
above somewhat plicate; its mouth much contracted, and cut into a few obtuse and 
unequally-sized teeth. 
Pistilla (f. 10) eight or ten in each calyx, short, lanceolate, obtuse, of a greyish color, 
longitudinally and transversely striated. 
Calyptra ovate, reticulated, whitish, tipped with a short style. 
Peduncle from two to three or even four lines in length, cellulose, terminated by the brown, 
ovate 
Capsule, which is exteriorly slightly furrowed, and opens into four equal, or (according 
to Schmidel) three, variously jagged, valves. 
Seeds and spiral filaments of a fulvous brown color*; the former spherical; the latter 
composed of a double helix, and continuing attached to the margins of the valves in a 
pectinated manner, as well as to the centre of the capside in a pencil or tuft§. 
As the learned author of the leones has alone been so fortunate as to discover gemma upon this 
plant, I shall offer no apology for transcribing his account of them, in order to render my 
description the more complete. “ Sunt dein alia; frondes, quas Novembri mense potissimum 
deprehendi, ante quam aut flosculi erumpunt, aut pauciores saltern pullulant; quse semper 
denso foliorum ordine imbricate; sunt. In his copiosb, ad interioris plerorumque folionun 
• Upon the innovations they appear to be always very distantly placed, and smaller than the rest, 
f I have only become acquainted with the male fructification since the engraving was completed. 
* C rnidel says they are sometimes mixed with white. “ Vasculum recenter ruptum, magnam copiam pulve.is 
on me ex fulvo fuse, intensissimi, sphairici, qui coharret fills teneirimis, serpentine ductu crispatis, nigricantibus, 
aut mterdum albo mixtis, inordmatlm positis.” leones , p. 249. 
§ Schmidel, leones, p. 249. “Si vasculum rumpitur, magno cum impetu ejicitur pulvis . circa centrum vasculi 
veto maxima pars filorum s. fumculorum, eo excusso, adhuc restat penicilli divergentis formd, et disco valvularum 
cam, pars eorum sparslm adhteret. Tandem omnia dejiciuntur, et sola testa restat valvularum. Postremo pedunculus 
marcescit, et declinans procumbit, ex quo calix in medio fovea impressa desedit » 
