BRITISH JUNGERMANNI/E. 
( J. minutissima. J 
JUNGERMANNIA MINUTISSIMA. 
(TAB. LII.) 
Jungermannia, sui'culo repente, filiformi, flexuoso, vagh ramoso : foliis distiehis, ovato-rotundatis, 
suprk valde convexis, hie illic lateralitfer subemarginatis, vix bilobis : stipulis ovato-rotundatis, 
bifidis : fructu laterali ; calycibus obovato-rotundatis, pentagonis ; ore contracto, parum dentato. 
Jungermannia minutissima. Engl. Bot. t. 1633. 
Jungermannia omnium minima, seu vix conspicua, Serpylli ant Herniarite foliis auritis, 
Jloribus ex albo virescentibus, vagina cordijormi. Micheli, Nov. Gen. p. 9. t. 6. f 20. 
Lichenastrum, quod Jungermannia omnium minima, seu vix conspicua, Serpylli aut 
Herniarite foliis auritis, Jloribus ex albo virescentibus, vagina coriliformi. Dill. Muse - 
t . 72. /. 29. 
Hab. First discovered in this eountry by Mr. Lyell, growing on the bark of holly and ash 
trees, near the ground, in the New Forest ; bearing fruit in April and May : afterwards 
found by the same gentleman more plentifully near Keswick, Cumberland, and upon fii 
trees at Mount Edgecombe, Devonshire —Upon trees at Henfield, Sussex. Mr. William 
Borrer . — In the neighbourhood of Bantry, Ireland. Miss Hutchins.— It grows indifferently 
upon trees and rocks, and is very common in various parts both of Devonshire and 
Cornwall.— About the hike of Killarney, Ireland, upon the trunks of trees. Sir Thomas 
Gu<re, Bart . — Woodlands near Dublin. — Dr. Taylor. 
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Plant growing in patches, from one to two or three inches in diameter, appearing, at a little 
distance, like a green stain, and, even on a nearer approach, it may readily be mistaken or 
Lepraria viridis. 
The roots proceed from the under side of the stems and branches, generally immediately at 
the base of the stipules, and in small, whitish bundles of fibres. < 
Surculi creeping over each other in an imbricated manner; each individual is from one to 
two or three lines long, remarkably slender, filiform, branched, with the branches 
varying in length and direction, simple or again divided. The texture is equally delicate 
with that of the leaves, composed of distinct, oblong cellules. 
