BRITISH JUNGERMANNIA. 
(J. cuneifolia.J. 
JUNGERMANNIA CUNEIFOLIA. 
(TAB. LXIV.) 
Jungermannia, caule repente, simplice: foliis subdistantibus, cuneiformibus, integerrimis, vel 
apice obtusissimb emarginatis : stipulis minutis, ovatis, acutis, bifidis. 
Hab. Found growing parasitically upon Jungermannia Tamarisci, near Ban try, by 
Miss Hutchins. 
Plant so minute as to resemble the filaments of a Conferva, rather than the stems of a Junger- 
mannia 5 growing loosely clustered. 
Roots consisting of a few small fibres, which proceed in tufts from the under side of the 
stem, and always at the base of a stipule. 
Stems extremely slender, filiform, rarely exceeding half an inch in length, generally much 
smaller, and, as far as I have had the opportunity of observing, undivided, of a brownish 
color ; when dry exceedingly fragile ; cellules small and oblong. 
Leaves (f. f. 4. 5. 6), throughout the whole length of the plant rather distantly placed, 
scarcely the eighth of a line long, patent or erect, of an exactly cuneiform figure j the 
base decurrent ; the apex entire, or cut into a wide, but very shallow notch ; the margin 
every where destitute of teeth or serratures. The cellules are roundish ■ the texture , when 
dry, brittle : the color, in all the specimens that I have seen, a dull reddish olive or 
s 
brown. 
Stipules (f. f. 5. 7) one to each pair of leaves, rather, closely oppressed to the under side 
of the stem,, small, of an ovate form, divided for more than half its length, by an acute 
sinus, into two sharp segments. Its color and texture the same as in the leaves. 
