BRITISH JUNGERMANNIiE. 
( J. Francisci.J 
JUNGERMANNIA FRANCISCI. 
(TAB. XLIX. ) 
Jungermannia, surculo erectiusculo, simplice vel ramoso : foliis suberectis, ovatis, concavis, acutfe 
emarginatis; stipulis minutis, ovatis, bifidis : fructu in ramis propriis brevibus terminali; calycibus 
oblongo-cylindraceis, par inn plicatis ; ore dentato. 
Jungermannia bifida. Schmidel, leones, p. 2 44. <.62./. 19.20? (planta gemmiferaj ; et 
p. 250. t. 64. /. 2 ? (planta capsulifera.J 
Hab. About Holt and Edgefield, Norfolk. Rev. R. B. Francis. — New Forest, Hants. 
Mr. Lyell. — About Bantry, Ireland, together with J. Tnrneri. Miss Hutchins. — In moist 
places upon the ground near the Decoy, Herringfleet, Suffolk. (It produces fructification,, 
both male and female, in the spring and early summer months.) 
Plant growing in small and rather densely-crowded patches of a pale green color, with, very 
frequently, a tinge of purple. 
Root consisting of a few minute, simple fibres, which originate at various distances from the 
under side of the plant *. 
Surculi seldom exceeding five or six lines in length, slender, filiform, or only a little 
incrassated upwards, flexuose, the lower part simple, usually bare of leaves, pellucid, 
and of a whitish color, the rest either simple, or once or twice divided with filiform 
branches, which are generally erect, but occasionally procumbent, of a pale yellowish- 
green color, now and then tinged with purple at their extremities. 
Leaves (f. f. 6, 7) small in proportion to the diameter of the stem, growing in a bifarious 
manner, alternate, more or less closely placed, usually a little imbricated, either erect, or 
erecto-patent, about the sixth of a line in length, ovate, concave, from the apex acutely cleft 
for about one fourth of their length, into two equal, and somewhat obtuse, segments. 
The substance is, for so small a plant, subcarnose; the cellules roundish; the color a 
pale green, inclining to purple in those leaves which are most exposed to the light and air. 
* Mr. Lyell discovered a single specimen with a larger solitary radicle, much resembling that of J. Sphugni. 
