Handbook of British Hepaticae : containing descriptions and figures of the indigenous species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia and Anthoceros . osa, Dura. p. 15. In mountainous districts. (Fr. April, May.) Growing in small dense patches, amongst short, generally not exceeding 4 inch,erect, or ascendent, flexuous, pale reddish brown,simple, or once or twice dichotomous, with lateralinnovations. Leaves bifarious,horizontal, imbricate, divided intotwo unequal adpressed verticallobes, the inferior the largest,ovate, acute, recurved, and sharplyserrated (fig. 93), serrature
Handbook of British Hepaticae : containing descriptions and figures of the indigenous species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia and Anthoceros . osa, Dura. p. 15. In mountainous districts. (Fr. April, May.) Growing in small dense patches, amongst short, generally not exceeding 4 inch,erect, or ascendent, flexuous, pale reddish brown,simple, or once or twice dichotomous, with lateralinnovations. Leaves bifarious,horizontal, imbricate, divided intotwo unequal adpressed verticallobes, the inferior the largest,ovate, acute, recurved, and sharplyserrated (fig. 93), serratures irregu-lar and half way down from theapex. Superior lobe not so largeby two-thirds, rounded-ovate,acute, exterior surface convex,apex sharply and unequally ser-rated. Colour pale yellow-green,sometimes inclining to rather firm. Perichaetialleaves resembling the cauline ones, 93- but the inferior lobes more recurved, and thesuperior about half their size. Calyx cylindricalat the base, or ventricose, becoming depressed andquite flat at the mouth, which is truncate andentire. Capsule brown. Elaters bispiral.—{Plate j,fig 37-). 134 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH HEPATIC/E. Scapania nemorosa, L., Dion. Stem erect, leaves unequally conduplicate,two-lobed, lobes obovate, rather obtuse, ciliatelytoothed, anterior doubly small, perianth with aciliate mouth. Jungermannia nemorosa, Linn. Sp. No. 1598;Eng. Bot. t. 607; Hook. Br. Jung. t. 21. Sca-pania nemorosa, Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 14; Rabh. Exs. No. 92, 224, 279, 331 ; Pears. Exs. 92. Shady banks and woods. (Fr. April, May.) Tufts 2 or 3 inches diameter,compact,but not mat-ted. Stems rather stout, flexuose, brownish, nearlyblack, naked, creeping at the base. Shoots as-cending, 1 to 2 inches, simple or irregularly branched,branches spreading, recurved at the apex. Leavesrather distant, bifarious, alternate, increasing up-wards, decurrent on both aspects, unequally bilobed,parallel with each surface of the stem. Lo
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