(J. Lyellii.J 
BRITISH J UNGER MANN I iE. 
Perigonial scales (f. 2) numerous, crowded, sometimes forming a beautiful fringe on each 
side the nerve (f. 4), at other times altogether concealing it (f. f. 2. 3) ; they are, each of 
them, of an ovate or roundish figure (f. 5), much laciniated and toothed, concave on the 
underside. Among these scales 
The Anthers are dispersed (f. f. 3. 4), each of them (f. f. 5, 6) roundish-ovate, yellow- 
brown, supported upon a very short white footstalk. 
Female Fructification placed always on the nerve, on the upper surface of the frond, and 
generally near the centre. 
Calyx double: the exterior (f. f. 8. 10) the shortest, and very much cut and laciniated at 
the margin ; its texture nearly resembles that, of the frond, or, if any thing, is rather 
more delicate: the reticulation, too (f. 11), is composed of more oblong areolce : the 
interior (f. f. 9. 15. 12) is still more delicate (f. 14), of a paler color, thrice or four 
times the length of the outer one, subcylindrical, a little plicate and toothed at the 
mouth, at length torn on one side by the bursting forth of the capsule (f. 18). 
Germcn at first ovate (f. 15), tipped with a short, obtuse style; afterwards lengthened out, 
so as to equal and often exceed the inner calyx. 
Calyptra (f. 18) cylindrical, of a rather thick subcarnose substance (f. 13), white, with very 
minute oblong reticulations. Near its base are a few abortive pistilla. 
Peduncle nearly an inch long, white, succulent, semipellucid, a little flexuose. 
Capsule oblongo-ovate, splitting into four, or sometimes only three, valves, and these are not 
unfrequently united at their apices, as is the case with J. Hookeri and some other species. 
Color rather a pale brown or chocolate. 
Seeds numerous, minute, sphaerical, fulvous. Spiral filaments of the same color, very long, 
formed of a double helix, closely twisted. — Whether these are attached, as in J. epiphylla, 
to the base of the capsule, or at the extremity, as in J. pinguis and J. furcata, I am 
unable to determine, for want of specimens in a sufficiently good state of preservation. 
I have observed no Gemma; on any specimens that I have yet met with. 
To none can this species be with more propriety dedicated than to its discoverer, Charles 
Lyell, Esq., a gentleman to whose unwearied researches almost every page of this work bears 
unequivocal testimony, and to whom I am happy in being able thus publicly to express my 
gratitude and esteem ; while every one who is acquainted with him, will agree with me in saying, 
“ E a me suoi merti 
"E 1’ ingegno non stanco 
“Tra piante e carmi e studj, e il cuor si franco, 
“ Costumi ornati, e il viver dolce e cheto, 
“ Anche son noth’’ 
It was in the neighbourhood of his seat, Bartley Lodge, in the New Forest, Hampshire, that my 
valued friend first met with this highly curious plant, which he has since found in boggy places 
on his estate at Kinnordy, in Angusshire. It grows likewise in Ireland, and I have the same 
species given me by Mr. Dickson, who says it was gathered in the East Indies. The following, 
J. hibernica, although so nearly allied to this, I believe to be perfectly distinct. It accords in 
