BRITISH JUNGERMANNLE 
( J. sphcerocarpaj 
JUNGERMANNIA SPKLEROCARPA. 
(TAB. LXXIV. ) 
J ungerm anni a, caule adscendente, simplice: foliis orbiculatis: calycibus oblongo-obovatis, 
cylindraceis, quadrifidis (capsule sphaericA) 
Hab. Cadnam bog. Mr.Lyell. — In the neighborhood of Dublin. Dr. Taylor. — (It bears 
fruit early in spring.) 
Plants growing in rather dense tufts of a pale green color. 
Stems scarcely exceeding half an inch in length, ascending, filiform, waved, and, as far as I 
have yet seen, altogether simple; here and there, from their under side, throwing out 
small, simple, whitish, fibrous radicles. 
Leaves rather distantly and bifariously placed ; in the barren shoots, smallest at the base, 
and at the extremity; in the fertile ones, largest towards the calyx; of an exactly 
orbiculate figure, a little concave and decurrent, mostly horizontally patent ; but 
sometimes towards the apex of the plant erect. Their color a pale green. Their texture 
delicate : reticulations small, roundish. 
Perichcetial leaves generally more ovate, and always larger than the rest ; otherwise the same. 
Fructification: Male, unknown. 
Fructification : Female always terminal. 
Calyx oblong, inclining to obovate, having no angles, cut at the extremity into four large, 
acute teeth or segments. Color and texture nearly the^ame as those of the leaves. 
Germen ovate; style rather long, tubular. 
Calyptra ovate, reticulated. 
Peduncle twice or thrice the length of the calyx, white, pellucid, cellulose. 
Capsule exactly spherical, brown, shining, splitting into four equal, widely ovate segments. 
Seeds and spiral f laments deep fulvous brown ; the former spherical, the latter short, and 
formed of a double helix. 
