Allied to ./. turgescens, nobis (Pt. 1. p. 150, t. lxiv. f. 2.), of Lord Auckland's group ; but the present may be readily distinguished by its smaller size, more olive colour, its toothed stipules, more patent and differently shaped leaves, whose attachment is also different, and which are not decurrent ; and by their larger areolfe.
Plate CLVIII. Fig. VI. — plant of the natural size. 2, stem, back view of leaf and stipide ; 3, front view of leaf; 1, stipule : — magnified.
42. Jungermannia minuta, Crantz, vid.Fl. Antarct. Pt. 1. p. 152. Hab. Kerguelen's Land; on tufts of mosses, &c., on the hills. Also found in Lord Auckland's group, but hitherto not elsewhere in the Southern Hemisphere ; nor out of Europe in the Northern.
43. Jungermannia quadripartita , Hook., Muse. Exot. t. 117. Gottsche, Lindb. et Nees; Si/n. Hej). p. 146.
Hab. Staten Land, Menzies (in Herb. Hook.); Hemiite Island, Cape Horn; on moist banks, Mr. Davis.
(5. Gymnanthe, Tai/l.)
44. Jungermannia Urvilleana, Mont., vid. Ft. Antarct. Pt. 1. p. 1 o'i,
Hab. Hermite Island, Cape Horn ; in the woods.
Also a native of Lord Auckland's group and Tasmania. (6, Lophocolea, Nees.)
45. Jungermannia textilis, Hook.fil. etTayl.; caule laxe implexo prostrato paree vage ramoso piano, foliis distichis horizontaliter patentibus complanatis approximatis late ovato-quadratis apice bifidis planis laxe cellulosis segmentis subulatis acutis integcrrimis, stipulis ovatis bipartitis segmentis linearibus divaricatis. Nobis in Loud. Joum. Hot. vol. hi. p. 468. (Tab. CLVIII. Fig. IX.)
Hab. Hermite Island, Cape Horn ; in woods. Falkland Islands ; on wet rocks near the sea, very common.
Ceespites late extensi, pallide sed lsete ilavo-virides. Caules 2 unc. longi, laxe intertexti, terrse appressi. Folia disticha, omnia horizontabter patentia, basi lata, cauli adnata sed non decurrentia, margine superiore subrotundata inferiore recta ; substantia tenera, laxe areolata. Stipula parvae, cauli aequilataj, bipartite, segmentis subulatis acuminatis. Perigonia nunc secus ramos obda, plerumque apices versus; foliis arete appressis erectis, basi tumidis.
In some particulars resembhng our /. planiuscula (Pt. 1. p. 156. t. lxv. f. 2), of Lord Auckland's group, which is a larger plant, with leaves rounded and otherwise of a very different form. The whole stratum is very fiat and appressed, wide, of a fine shining green colour, and soft texture.
Plate CLVIII. Fig. IX. — 1, plant of the natural size; 2, stem and leaves ; 3, stipide : — magnified.
46. Jungermannia leptantha, Hook. fil. et Tayl.; caule flaccido implexo procumbente ramoso, foliis distichis planis subiinbricatis patentibus ovato-oblongis integerrimis margine superiore subrecurvo apice emarginato-bidentatis dentibus elongatis sinu rotundato, stipulis porrectis minutis bipartitis segmentis subulatis extus unidentatis 4-partitisve, calyce terminali liueari-oblongo trigono ore trifido segmentis emarginato-bidentatis serratis rarius submtegris. Nobis in Lond. Joum. Bot. vol. hi. p. 471. Lophocolea coadunata
