CRYPTOGAMIA. HEPATIOE. Jungermannia. 1087 
(Pale Globular-flowered Jungermannia. E.) Mnium fissum. 
Linn. J. fissa. Scop. Lightf. In wet places about Highgate, and on 
Shooter’s Hill near Eltham, and especially in a rivulet running through 
Oldfall Wood, between Highgate and Muswell Hill. Ray. In Scotland. 
Lightfoot. Feb.—April. Dill.—P. March—Oct. Huds. 
B. (2) Leaves winged: fruit-stalks lateral , or at the base. 
J. sphag'ni. Shoots taking root: fruit-stalks lateral: leafits roundish, 
very entire, tiled, pointing one way. Dicks. 6. 
(Hook. Jung. 33. E.)— E. Bot. 2470 — Dicks. 1. 10. 
Shoots an inch or more in length; sometimes branched, sometimes not, 
bending in various directions, and here and there putting forth fibrous 
roots. Leaves roundish, brownish yellow, convexo-concave, all pointing 
one way, though placed in two rows, alternately lying on each other. 
Capsule one or two, issuing from tho same side of the shoot near the top 
or the bottom. Fruit-stalk pellucid, white, a quarter of an inch high. 
Sheath whitish, oblong, brownish at the top. Capsule small, roundish, 
brown, but rarely seen. Differs from J. polyanthos. Linn, in the leaves 
being of a brownish yellow, pointing one way, and also in the fibrous 
roots. Dicks. (Remarkable for its large radicular fibres. Grev. The 
leaves may always be known from those of other Jungermannia, by the 
firmness of their texture, by the peculiar smallness of the cellules, com¬ 
bined with their general orbicular shape. Hook. E.) 
(Bog-moss Jungermannia. E.) Marshy places, frequently adhering to 
Sphagum palustre, near Croydon, Surry. (Belton, near Yarmouth. Mr. 
Turner. New Forest, Hampshire, most abundant, in fructification. Mr. 
Lyell, in Hook. Jung. E.) May. 
J. viticulo'sa. (Leaves flat, naked, entire, ovate, slightly decurrent, 
bifariously arranged: stipulse small, nearly circular, laciniate, 
acuminate. E.) 
(Hook. Jung. 60— E. Bot. 2513. E.)— Mich. 5. 4— Vaill. a. h. between f. 7 
andf. 2 . 
Shoots three inches long ; branches one or two inches. Leafits egg-shaped, 
yellowish brown, or only green when growing in the shade, the edges 
very entire. Peduncle an inch or an inch and a half long, white, 
cylindrical, cellulose, tipped with the brown, oblongo-ovate capsule. 
Flat-leaved Jungermannia. Grows in loosely matted patches of va¬ 
rious size, rendered conspicuous by their yellowish brown colour. Not 
uncommon in various sub alpine parts of England, Scotland, and Ireland ; 
sometimes upon Mosses. Hook. E.) P. March—April. 
J. polyan'thos. (Leaves horizontal, rotundo-quadrate, flat, entire, 
and emarginate: stipulae oblong, bifid; fruit upon very short 
branches, arising from the lower surface of the stem: calyx 
much shorter than the calyptra, bi-labiate, laciniate. Hook. E.) 
(Hook. Jung. 62 — E. Bot. 2479. E.) — Dill. 70. 9. 
Shoots about one inch long, winged. Leafits alternate, egg-shaped, with a 
blunt point. Fruit-stalk half an inch high, from the mid-rib and the 
origin of the branches. Capsule brown red, egg-shaped, Weis, short, 
branched, stiff. Leafits roundish, short, thin, pellucid, tiled. Involu - 
crum white, short, four-cleft. 
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