BRITISH JUNGERMANNHE. 
( J. Woodsii .} 
JUNGERMANNIA WOODSII. 
(TAB. LX VI.) 
Jungermannia, caule procumbente, bi-tripinnato : foliis bifariam imbricatis, valdh convexis, 
inaequalitbr bilobis ; lobis superioribus bipartitis , spinuloso-dentatis ; inferioribus minutissimis, 
oblongis : stipulis magnis, ovatis, bipartitis, spinuloso-dentatis ; basi utrinque calcaratis. 
Hab. On the ascent of Mangerton from Cwra na Cappal, Ireland. Mr. Joseph. Woods.— 
Since found at. the Devil’s Punch Bowl, upon the same mountain} and in very great 
abundance at Brandon, by Dr. Taylor. 
Plant growing in large and rather densely-crowded patches. 
Stems procumbent, from three to five, and even six inches, in length, considerably stouter 
in the larger plants than horse-hair, flexuose, filiform, once or twice dichotomous, beset 
throughout their whole length with rather distantly-placed, patent or recurved, acuminated 
pinnae, which vary from an inch to an inch and a half, or more, in length, anti are either 
"j simple, or again furnished with shorter pinnulae. T he color is a dirty brown : the texture 
compact, when dry very brittle. 
Leaves (f. f. 4. 5) rather closely placed, from a quarter to half a line in length : in the 
extreme ramuli the largest are at the apex, in the rest they become gradually smaller 
towards the apices; every where they are imbricated over the upper surface of the stem 
and branches, and have a bifarious direction : their form is round or subquadrate, and 
composed of two very unequal conduplicate lobes, of which the upper one is the largest, 
convex above, divided, for about half its length, by an acute sinus, into two, ovate 
segments, which are beset at their margins with variously-sized, but generally large, 
spiniform teeth: the inferior lobe is exceedingly minute and oblong, with its margin 
nearly entire. The cellules of the leaf are of a roundish form, very distantly placed, 
resembling those of J. Turneri. The color is a purplish brown, paler, and of a more 
dirty hue in the lower leaves. 
