Handbook of British hepaticæ : containing descriptions and figures of the indigenous species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia and Anthoceros / by M.C. Cooke.

  • Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), 1825-1914.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Handbook of British hepaticæ : containing descriptions and figures of the indigenous species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia and Anthoceros / by M.C. Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lejeunia inconspicua, De Not. Filiform, loosely branched, leaves distant, rounded-ovate, entire, convex, involucral rounded-oblong, spreading; without stipules; perianth axillary, plicate, pentagonal, top- shaped. Jungermannia inconspicua, Raddi. Jung. 34, t. 5, fig. 2. Jungermannia minutissima, Tayl. Trans. Bot. Edin., 1844. Lejeunia minutissima ft, Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 216. Lejeunia Taylori, Spruce Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. III., 212. Lejeunia inconspicua, De Not in Rab. Exs. No. 45. Lejeunia minutissima var. ft, sine amp/n'oastriis, Carr. Irish Crypt. On trunks, very minute. Stems hair-like, flexuous, loosely branched, hardly conspicuous to the naked eye ; leaves few, vertical, two-rowed, alternate, roundish, complicate beneath, and ventricose, longitudinal fold nearly equal to the leaves ; stipules absent ; perichaetial leaves spreading, oblong, narrowly complicate; calyx terminal, broadly obovate, compressed, five-angled ; mouth obtusely papillate; capsule subspherical, hyaline, cleft half way to the base.—{Plate i,fig. 5.) Lejeunia microseopiea, Tayl. Very thin, creeping, vaguely branched ; leaves remote, ovate, lanceolate, acute, ventral D