CRYPTOGAM I A. HEPATIC^. Jungermannia. 1083 
branches always more or less forked. In the month of March, oil 
plants of this description the branches become wider and of a deeper 
colour, and gradually partake more of the usual appearance of the 
plant: roots descend from their under sides, and the old fronds seem to 
be going into a state of decay: so that these curious processes are, in 
all probability, destined by nature as a mean of increasing the species, 
different from any that has yet been noticed in other Jungermanniw , 
Hooker’s Monograph. E.) 
(Broad-leaved Jurgermannia, or Star-ttp. Moist hedges, abundant. 
E.) Ellingham Fen, near Bungay, by the direction post. Mr. Stone. 
(Var. y. not uncommon. Cheddar Rocks. About Torquay. Hooker. 
E.) P. March—April. 
J. pusii/la. (Stem creeping: leaves imbricated in two ranks, angular, 
without auricles: sheaths plaited, bell-shaped: valves of the 
capsule dilated and jagged. E. Bot. E.) 
(j Dicks. H. S. — Hook. Jung. 09— E. Bot. 1775— Schmid. 22— Hedw. Theor. 
18. 89, to 92—Mich. 5. 10— Dill. 71. 22. C. D. E. E.) 
(Jibe plant grows either in detached individuals; or thickly matted together 
so as to form light, pellucid, green patches of many inches in diameter, 
and firmly adhering to the ground by its roots. In the calyx , two 
remarkable peculiarities may be observed, in the widely-expanded mouth, 
and the stipulaceous processes, or bractece, as they might be called, at the 
base. The situation, too, of th e fructification is very curious, unaccom¬ 
panied by perigonial or perichaetial leaves ; and the whole plant diffuses 
an agreeable odour, not unlike that of the Sweet Sedge ( Acorus Calamus. 
Hook. The large bell-shaped plaited sheath will at once distinguish 
this otherwise diminutive plant. Purt. E.) 
(Dwarf Jungermannia. J. pusilla. Linn. Hedw. Huds. With. Relh. 
Hook. J. angulosa. Dicks. With. Not uncommon in shady lanes and 
on moist banks, especially in clayey soil. P. March—Oct. E.) 
J. fuhca'ta. Frond strap-shaped, branched, entire, the ends forked 
and obtuse: (sheaths hairy. E.) 
(Hook. Jung. 55 and 56. E.)— Hedw. Theor. 19 and 20—( E. Bot. 1632. 
E .)—Dill. 74. 45— Vaill. 23. 11— Mich. 4. 4. 
In stony shady places where it thrives well, it grows in tufts, and the 
plants support one another nearly upright, but when scattered amongst 
other Mosses on trees or on the ground it creeps. Leaves flat, com¬ 
pressed, very thin, pale green, pellucid, with a distinct vein running 
through the middle, more or less lobed, trifid or bifid at the end; lubes 
blunt. Dill. 
(Forked Jungermannia. E.) On the ground, on rocks, in woods on 
the trunks of trees, and wet shady places, (forming large dense patches, 
closely appressed to the surface. E.) Bungay. Mr. Stone. (On the 
bark of a beech tree in Frith Wood, Pains wick. Mr. O. Roberts. 
Var. y. aeruginosa. J. fruUculosa. E. Bot. J. furcata. var. y. Hook. 
Ricci a fruticidosa. With. Ed 4. Remarkable for its colour, of a fine 
verdigris green, especially towards the ends of the frond, which are 
considerably dilated, and of a more delicate texture than the preceding. 
Hook. 
Hook. Jung. 55, f. 22, 23— E. Bot. 2514. 
The plant, becomes more decidedly seruginose when dried. It produces 
viviparous germs towards the ends of the branches. J3r, 
