(J. Trichomanis .) 
BRITISH J UN GE R MANN I iE. 
Roots (f. 5) descending from the under part of the stem, most abundantly near the base, in 
small, fibrous bundles, that are placed close by the stipules. 
Stems from one to two inches long, slender, flexuose, procumbent, simple, or producing, 
here and there, young shoots or innovations, which exactly resemble the parent plant : 
their texture is delicate : the cellules large, oblong: the color a pale green. 
Leaves rather closely arranged, and imbricated over the upper surface of the stem, so as 
altogether to conceal it ; usually small at the base and at the extremity of the plant, 
largest in the middle, where they are not unfrequently half a line long; their direction is 
horizontal ; their figure widely ovate, above convex ; many of them are entire, whilst 
others are cleft with a wide and obtuse notch at the apex (f. 5) ; the margins are every- 
where free from serratures. The cellules are large and roundish, and give the leaves a 
punctated appearance when the plant is dry: the texture delicate : the color a pale, and 
oftentimes a glaucous green. 
Stipules : (f. f. 5. 6.) Of these one is placed between each pair of leaves. Their figure is 
roundish, and they are furnished with a deep, and somewhat lunular incision or notch at 
the apex, resembling, in some degree, that of J. connivens. In color and texture the 
stipules resemble the leaves. 
Male Fructification unknown. 
Female Fructification lateral, and issuing from the under side of the stem. 
Calyx (f. 9) attached by one side of its mouth to a short footstalk, in such a manner as that 
the rest is pendent, and deeply imbedded in the soil. It is a line or more in length, 
oblong, obtuse at the base, of a carnose substance, though, when viewed under a high 
magnifying power, evidently cellular : its exterior is covered with rather long but not 
thickly-placed hairs (f. 9), pointing upwards. 
Germen (f. 7) ovate, tipped with a thick style, and bearing upon various parts of its surface 
barren pistilla, which are of an oblong form (f. S), transversely and longitudinally striated. 
Corolla (f. 10), when arrived at its full size, occupying the whole width of the calyx, and 
reaching to about half its length; its form is ovate; its texture delicate and membranous. 
Footstalk about an inch or an inch and half long, slender, whitish, cellulose ; at its base inserted 
into its receptacle by means of a small bulb (f. 11). 
Capsule (f. 12) linear-oblong, having the four linear valves, of which it is composed, very 
curiously and spirally twisted (f. 13). They unfold in some degree, but never become 
strait in expanding, and, after the discharge of the seeds, again become twisted and 
reflexed. Their texture is extremely beautiful. Under a high power of the microscope, 
longitudinal brown furrows are seen, having intermediate narrow ones (f. 14), and these 
are connected by transverse lines. 
Seeds small, numerous, of a roundish form, and of a brownish color, as are the spiral 
filaments, which are, moreover, long, slender, and very closely twisted, formed of a 
double helix. 
Gemma (f. 16) abundant upon those plants which have their apices lengthened out into 
almost leafless portions of the stem, at the point of which they are collected together in 
small spherical clusters, resembling those of J. bicuspidala and Sphagni. Each particle 
is roundish, angular, pellucid, pale green. 
