1086 CRYPTOGAMIA. HEPATKLE. Jungermannia. 
Involucrum terminal, obscurely three-cornered. Fruit-stalk whitish, tender, 
an inch long. Neck. Shoots one to three inches long, generally branched. 
Weis. Leafits with two teeth at the end forming a half moon. Scholl. 
Leaves pale green, pellucid, alternate, fixed by a broad base to the rib, 
pointing upwards. Fruit-stalks leafy at the base. Capsules black brown. 
Dill. (Growing in more or less crowded patches of some inches in 
diameter. E.) 
(This species is said to be aromatic. The fig. in E. Bot. omits to represent 
the stipules, which Hooker observes to be always present, though scarcely 
distinguishable to the naked eye. E.) 
(Bidentate Jungermannia. E.) Woods, moist heaths, and shady 
banks. A. Oct.—Dec. 
J. quinquedenta'ta. Shoots branched : leafits with five teeth. 
(Hook. Jung. 70— E. Bot. 2517. E.) — Dill. 71. 23. 
Involucrum with five teeth, a line or more in length. Neck. Shoot some¬ 
times simple, taking root as it creeps along. Capsules appear in autumn; 
it blossoms in the spring. Leaves four-sided, teeth or scollops from one 
to six. Shoots crowded, one inch to one inch and half long, in general 
branching into forks. Web. Creeping, crowded, sometimes branched. 
Leaves pellucid, numerous, broadest at the base, pleasant green, lower 
ones ending in three sharp teeth, upper ones in four or five. Fruit-stalk 
terminating. Involucrum toothed, angular. Capsule black. Dill. 
(Five-toothed Jungermannia. J. quinquedentata. Linn. Huds. J. bar- 
bata , Schreb.; which latter name Hooker has adopted, believing the 
other inapplicable, and that, except by accident or injury, five segments 
are never seen to exist on the leaves of this plant. E.) In patches of 
various dimensions, in woods and wet shady places. About Tunbridge, 
and in the west of Yorkshire. In the ascent to Ffynnon frech, near Llan- 
berris. Mr. Griffith. (On the rocks of Cromford Moor, near Matlock. 
Mr. Teesdale. E.) P. April. 
J. macrorhi'za. Shoots upright, branched: leafits alternate, slightly 
notched, open. Dicks, ii. l6. 
(Hook. Jung. 27— E. Bot. 1022. E.)— Dicks. 5. 10. 
Leaves , the uppermost purplish. Root large, branched. Dicks. (Stem 
erect, branched; leaves loosely imbricated, patent, obcordate, emarginate ; 
fruit terminal; cal. ovate, toothed, immersed in the leaves. Hook. Ehrhart 
compares the leaves to a heart cut out of paper: when growing in water 
the plant loses its purplish hue, and becomes dark green. 
Purple-tipped Jungermannia. J. emarginata . Linn. Hook. Amidst 
moist alpine rocks abundant. E.) Higher mountains of Scotland. 
Crib y Ddescil, Mr. Griffith. 
J. sphiero-ceph'ala. Leafits with two teeth: fruit-stalks terminal 
or lateral, supporting a barren globular flower. 
Dill. 31. 6. 
Small, whitish, creeping, leaves pointing two ways. Leafits notched at the 
end, and the segments sharp-pointed. Scop. Roots extremely slender 
and numerous, from the mid-rib, and fixing the plant firmly to the ground. 
Fruit-stalks short, terminal and lateral. Capsules , or powdery heads, pale 
green. Leafits tender, pellucid, cloven at the end, opposite. I have seen 
no other capsules than these powdery heads, Dill. 
