entire or denticulate. Pistillidia small, few (4-6). No perfect
perianth seen.
D im e n s io n s .—Stems 2 inches long, 2 mm. in diameter, with
leaves 1'5 mm. w ide; leaves 1- mm. x 7 5 mm. ; cells '03 mm. x
'02 mm., '025 mm. x '02 mm., ’035 mm. x '02 mm. ; marginal
cells -02 mm. x '02 mm., '015 mm. x -02 mm. ; stipules '5 mm. x
•4 mm., -4 mm. x -3 mm., -5 mm. x -5 mm., '4 mm. x '3 mm. ;
sub-hraots -4 mm. x A mm., A mm. x '2 mm. ; sub-braoteole
■4 mm. X A mm. ; innermost bracts '3 mm. x '2 mm., '5 mm. x
A5 mm. ; pistillidia T25 mm. x '04 mm.
H a b ,— Very rare, tlie only known stations being on banks and
rocks Eagle’s Nest, Horses Glen, Cromaglown, Killarney, Stetoart
Sf Holt, June 1885.
Ob s .—Differs from B. tricrenata (Wahlenb.) in its ochraceous
colour, the proportionately broader leaves with large overlapping,
antioal base, smaller cells with thicker walls and much thicker
angles. From B. triangularis (Schleioh.) by its larger size, oohra-
ceous colour and cell structure.
D escription of P late L.—Fig. 1. Plants natural size. 2.
Portion of stem, antical view x 24. 8-5. Leaves x 24. 6.
Portion of leaf x 290. 7-13. Stipules x 24. 14-17. Subbracts
X 24. 18. Sub-braoteole x 24. 19, 20. Innermost
bracts x 85. 21. Pistillidium x 85.
Genus 13. KANTIA. Gr. 8f B.
Mnium, Dill. Hist. muse. p. 236, n. 5, et p. 237, n. 6 (1741) ; Linn. Sp. Pl.,
1 éd.. 2, p. 1114, nn. 16 e t 17 (1753).
, Mich. Nov. pi. gen. p. 8, n. 2, tab. 5, Mg. 14 (1729).
<eia, sect. B. Amphigastriatoe, Eadd. in A tt. soc. Modena, 18, p. 44,
tab. 6, Figs. 3 and 4 (1818).
Kantia, Gr. & Benn. Nat. Arr, Brit. PI. 1, p. 706, n. 28 (1821).
Cincinnulus, Dum. Comm. bot. p. 113 (1822).
Plants rather large, depressed cæspitose, pale green or olive,
rarely brownish, prostrate or with apices (often gemmiparous),
assurgent. Stems moderately firm, simple, rarely furcate,
branches postical axillary to the stipules. Leaves rather large,
imbrioate, incubous, alternate, plane or convexulous, oblong, sometimes
twice as long as broad, often suhrhomboid, entire, apex
rotundate or retuse, rarely acute, bidentate or bilobed; cells lax,
rather large, rarely large or of medium size, quadrate or oblong-
hexagonal. Stipules everywhere present, about half the size of
the leaves, subrotund, rarely reniform, apex entire, retuse or bifid,
margin entire, rarely denticulate or spinulose or on both sides
unidentate or lobulate ; often very delicate. Flowers hypogenous,
produced from the axils of the stipules, dioicous or monoicous
(sometimes paroicous). Bracts ¥ 2-3 pairs, tristichous, much
smaller than the leaves, subrotund, oval, or lanceolate, entire or
2-4-fid, subeonnate. Pistillidia about 12. Perianth pendulous,
attached by one side of its mouth to the stem, pendant or
descending into the earth, olavate or subcylindrioal, carnose,
pluristratose, hairy. Calyptra membranous, a little shorter tlian
the perianth, attached to the perianth, but free in the upper
fourth part. Capsule on a long, firm pedicel, cylindrical, 3-4
times longer than broad, bistratose, inner layer with semi-
annular fibres, valves linear, twisted, deeply coloured. Elaters
filiform, somewhat short, suhobtuse, bispiral. Spores minute,
about the same diameter as the elaters, soaberulous.
1. Kantia Trichomanis (7.). Gr. ^ B.
Jungermania terrestris repens, foliis ex rotuncUnate acuminatis, bijidis, apertura
pene visibili, Mich. Nov. pi. gen. 8, t. 5, f. 14 (1739).
Mnium Trichomanis facie, fo liis integris, Dill. Hist, muse., p. 236, t. 31, £. 6
(1741).
Mnium Trichomamis facie, fo liis hifidis. Dill. Hist, muse., p. 237, t. 31, f. 6
(1741).
Mnium Trichomanis, Linn. Sp. pi., p. 1579 (1753).
ksum, Linn. Sp. pi., p. 1579 (1753).
Trichomanis, Dicks. PI. crypt. Brit. fase. I l l , t. 8, f. 5 (1793);
Hook. Brit. Ju n g . t. 79 (1816).
■fungermania fissa. Scop. Fl. Cam. 2, p. 348 (1772).
Kantia Trichomanis, Gr. & B. Nat. A rr. Brit. PI. p. 706 (1821).