1092 GRYPTOGAMIA. HEPATICJE. Jungermannia. 
fruit-stalk from the base. Capsules blackish, shining. Dill. Appendages 
underneath the leafits. Neck. Tender, creeping, irregularly branched, 
limber, about one inch long. Leafits very minute, ending in three or 
four little teeth. Involucrum three-sided, whitish, toothed. Fruit-stalk 
white, shining. Capsules oblong-egg-shaped. Weis. Dill. 
(A beautiful species universally dispersed throughout Europe; in habit 
closely allied to J. trilohata, having, like that plant, its leaves imbricated 
on the upper surface, large dentate stipules , flagella beset with leaf-like 
scales, and a whitish membranaceous calyx , proceeding from the under 
part of the stems. Hook. E.) 
(Creeping Jungermannia. E.) Moist shady places, and woods. 
P. Dec.—April. 
J. multiflo'ra. Shoots creeping, branched: leafits alternate, in pairs, 
bristle-shaped, equal. Linn, Leaf simply winged, flowering at 
the base. Huds. 510. 
(Hook. Jung. 8. K.)—Dill. 69. 4. 
Shoots thread-shaped, half to one inch long. Leafits short. Weber. Invo¬ 
lucrum central, numerous, crowded, white, four-cleft. Fruit-stalks 
slender, white, long. Capsules large, reddish brown. Dill. ( Stems 
exceedingly slender, in tufts, or solitary among Sphagna , half an inch to 
two inches long, irregularly branched in a distant lax manner. Leaves 
very minute, setaceous, in pairs. Colour pale green. Peduncle a quarter 
of an inch long. Grev. E.) 
(Many-flowered Jungermannia. J. setacea. Web. Hook. E.) 
Shooter’s Hill, near London. Dillenius. (Moist shady places. Auchen- 
denny woods. Grev. Edin. E.) P. March. 
D. Shoots tiled with leafits, 
J. complana'ta. Shoots creeping: leafits doubly tiled, with little 
scales underneath: branches of an equal breadth throughout. 
(Hook. Jung. 81— E. Bot. 2499. E.)— FI. Dan. 1062— Curt. — Dill. 72. 26 
—Mich. 5. 21. 
Leafits circular. Fruit-stalks terminal, very short. Neck. From one to 
two inches long, flat, irregularly branched, adhering close to the bark 
of trees in broad patches ; soft to the touch and flaccid when wet. Fruit- 
stalks hardly a line long, rising from the origin of the branches as well as 
from their extremities, out of a scaly involucrum, which is lopped at the 
end. Capsule small, black, of short duration. Weis. Dill. (Fructification 
abundant at all seasons. Grev. The circumstance of the roots most 
frequently proceeding from the surface or j vagina, (not from the margins,) 
of the leaves, in small tufts, is highly curious. Hook. E.) 
(Flat Jungermannia. E.) Trunks of trees, in hedges and thickets, 
flourishing most in moist situations. P. Jan.—April.* 
* (The wonderful structure of these diminutive vegetables can only be discovered under 
the microscope ; and the capsules of the present species, as Curtis observes, afford, when 
ready to burst, and aided by the point of a needle, much entertainment; for the elastic 
hairs inside will instantly appear in motion, and throw off the globules attached to them 
in great numbers, and with considerable force, E.) 
