BRITISH J UNGER MANN I/E. 
(J. serpyllifolia.) 
JUNGERMANNIA SERPYLLIFOLIA. 
(TAB. XLII. ) 
Jungermannia surculo repente, fili formic flexuoso, rage pinnatlm ramoso : foliis distichis, auri- 
cularibus*, (seu sub-bilobis; lobis inaequalibus, superioribus majoribus, rotundatis, basi subtus 
ventricosis ; inferioribus minutis, involutis:) stipulis rotundatis, acuth profundeque bifidis : fiuctu 
laterali axillarique 5 calycibus late obovatis, pentagonis j ore contractor elevato, subdentato. 
Jungermannia serpyllifolia. Dicks. Crypt. Plant. Fuse. 4. p. 19. 
Jungermannia minima, foliis auritis, ex rotunditate acuminatis, punctatis ac veluti per- 
forate, foribus virescentibus, vagina cordiformi. Micheli, Nov. Gen. p. 9. t. 6.f. 19. 
Lichenastrum, quod Jungermannia minima, foliis auritis, ex rotunditate acuminatis, punctaiis 
ac veluti perforate, f oribus virescentibus, vagina cordiformi. Dill. Muse. t. 72. f. 30. 
. ovata; foliis minoribus, ovatis, sub-acuminatis. 
Hab. “ In sylvis inter muscos.” D. Dickson.— Upon the trunks of trees, very abundant, 
near Copgrove, Yorkshire.— About Bantry. Miss Hutchins.— Not uncommon in moun- 
tain glens, near Belfast. Mr. Templeton.— North Brook, Furzy Lane, New Forest : and 
upon rocks at Lowdore and Keswick, and on Castle-hill, Kinnordv, Scotland. Mr. Lyell.— 
Powerscourt waterfall, with Calyces, May 23rd. Dr. Taylor.- Mam Turk, Cunnamara, 
and mountains near Killarney, Mr. Mackay ; found about the latter place, also, 
by Sir Thomas Gage, Bart. — ltocks by the waterfall on the Dee, near Mar Lodge. 
Mr. George Donn. — (The male fructification is produced in June; the female, during 
the spring months.)— /3. is found upon rocks near Bantry, by Miss Hutchins. 
Plant growing in rather large and dense patches ; the different individuals, of which the patches 
are composed, imbricating each other in a very compact manner. 
Surculi from half to three-quarters of an inch in length, filiform, flexuose, extremely 
slender, branched irregularly in a pinnated manner, the various shoots, which are 
* I have called the leaf of this species a » folium auriculare,” from the close resemblance it bears to the 
shell, Helix auricularis. 
