BRITISH JUNGERM ANN I JE. 
( J. hamatifolia.) 
(The same minute, nearly spherical, reticulated bodies (f. 13), which, under the description of 
J. calyptrifolia, I have called Gemma, are also abundant upon the present species, but 1 am 
unable to discover how they are attached to it.) 
In my remarks on serpyllifolia, I have noticed the affinity which the present plant bears 
to the var. ft of that species, and, in addition to the observations I there offered, 1 have only to 
add, that this is much smaller in all its parts ; that the size of the lobule, both in the cauline and 
perichsetial leaves, bears a much greater proportion to that of the lobe ; that the texture is thicker 
and more succulent, the calyx narrower, and the stipules more ovate. 
J. hamatifolia is probably not a rare inhabitant of the subalpine parts of the British isles ; 
but an experienced botanist, without the assistance of a microscope, would scarcely be able to 
distinguish it, in its native place of growth, from J. minutissima, although on a more minute 
examination, the leaves will be found to possess a widely different character. 
I have to regret that the Anthers, and a more perfect state of the capsule, as well as the 
var. ft, were discovered too late to have them inserted in the annexed plate. 
A minute, reddish, globular body (f. 6) is not unfrequent in the axillae of the leaves, and 
may at first sight be readily mistaken for an Anther ; but it is pellucid, always destitute of a 
footstalk, and has rather the appearance of an animal than a vegetable substance. 
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
FIG. 
1. 
a 
J. hamatifolia, natural size. 
6 
At. 
q 
4 
o. 
5 
4. 
K 
3 
D. 
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Q 
Cauline leaf, with an animalcule (?) in its axilla 
Under side of a portion of the stem, shewing the stipules 
3 
5 
O. 
4 
y. 
4 
10. 
2 
1 1. 
1 o 
1 
1 At. 
1 Q 
1 
lo. 
14. 
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