BRITISH JUNG E R M A N X I IE . 
( J . platyphylta.J 
Perigonial leaves (f. f. 5. 6. 7) closely imbricated upon short lateral raniuli, so as to form 
an ovate compact mass, not much unlike the spicula of a Brlza (f, 6 ; each is 
smallei' than one of the common leaves, and divided into nearly equal, very concave, 
not appressed, lobes, resembling those of J. resupinata, and having their margins a 
little involute, and altogether free from deuticulation. 
The Perichcetial leaves scarcely dilfer from those of the stem, except that they are smaller, 
and that the lobule is somewhat larger in proportion to the lobe. There are two to 
each calyx. 
Stipules (f. f. 10. 12) : of these there is one to each pair of leaves, arising from the under 
side of the stem, and appressed to it; it is oblongo-ovate or ligulate, much resem- 
bling the lobule, and in like manner recurved and entire. 
Male Fructification (f. f. 5. 6) situated in the axilla; of the perigonial leaves. There is one 
Anther (f. 7) in each of them, which is large, in proportion to the size of the leaf, and 
presents an exterior reticulated cuticle, but within is filled with a minute greyish granulated 
substance. The footstalk is scarcely more than half the length of the anther, white, trans- 
versely striated. 
Female Fructification lateral*, arising from the under side of the pinnae. 
Calyx (f. f. 14. 15) a line or more in length, ovate, narrow and cylindrical at the base, 
but gradually becoming wider, at first compressed and flat, at length, for the emis- 
sion of the capsule, erect, and nearly cylindrical. The mouth is tmncate, inciso-serrate, 
and cut with a deep notch, on one side, which extends nearly half the length of 
the calyx. 
Pistilla, eight or ten in number, ovato-lanceolate, of a greyish color, longitudinally and 
transversely marked with darker lines: the mouth a little expanded. 
Calyptra exactly spherical, contracted at the base, which forms a kind of footstalk ; 
it is rather carnose, but elegantly marked with a roundish reticulation, and termi- 
nated by a short tubular style. 
Peduncle scarcely equal in length to the calyx, whitish, cellulose, tipped with the 
perfectly spherical 
Capsule, of a pale yellowish-brown color (f. f. 15. 18) : on bursting, which it does from 
the apex, the four equal valves extend no more than half the length of the capsule, 
and never appear to expand, but, even when old, continue erect. The texture of this 
capsule is particularly delicate, and, under a highly magnifying power, exhibits a 
reticulated structure, very much like that of the calyptra, but having, on the borders 
of the areolae, a granulated appearance (f. 19). 
Seeds (f. 20) numerous, by no means perfectly spherical, of a pale olive-brown color. 
* Dillenius says it is terminal as well as lateral, which I have not observed to be the case. In other respects, 
his description is very characteristic. “ Ab inferiori parte ex ipso nervo vaginae onuntur tenues membranace, 
subvirentes, pediculo brevissimo h*rentes, e ramorum extremitatibus e, secundum eorum longitudmem egredien e 
urir telntes, in summits, e ab initio index,, dein rectre, mediouW bivalves, non angulos,, in quibus 
grana latent atro-viridia, colore, ubi erumpunt, spadiceo, in flores fusco-rufescentes dehiscent*. 
