tliickened, no trigones. Stfyules distant, apqiressed to the stem,
linear, linear-lanceolate, subulate or bifid and irregular segments
often unequal, 3—6 cells long, sometimes with 1 or 2 teeth at one
or both sides. Inflorescence cladocarpous, ? branohes postieal,
short, about 3 mm. long. Bracts las, 3 pairs, tristichous, innermost
about the size of the leaves, erect, ovate-oblong, canaliculate,
from a third to nearly the middle bilobed, segments acute or
subacuminate, towards the base 1, 2 dentate; cells elongate, subpellucid.
Bracteole same as the bracts. Sub-bracts much smaller
than the bracts, unequally bidentate, or falcate and entire.
Perianth projecting 2 to 3 times its length beyond the bracts,
linear-fusiform, cylindrical, trigonous only at the apex, mouth
truncate-suboonstrioted, entire, composed of one layer of cells
from the middle to apex, lower half 2 cells, at base 2 to 3 cells
thick, near the middle about 90 cells round. Calyptra 2 to 3
times shorter, slightly narrower, oblong-pyriform, delicate, at the
base 2 to 3 cells thick. Capsule purple, oblong or oblong-
cylindrical; valves linear-lanceolate, composed of two layers of
cells. Spores dark reddish-brown, broader than the elaters.
Elaters bispiral, same colour as the spores.
Amenta <? postical, perigonial bracts few (3-6)-pairs, smaller
than the leaves, oval or orbicular, concave, shortly bilobed, segments
subaoute, sometimes with a third, short, antical, incurved
segment; bracteole linear or oval-lanceolate, entire or bifid;
antheridia large, solitary, oval-globose.
D imensions.—Stems from 1 to 3 inches long, ’2 mm. to
'25 mm. in diam., with leaves 1'25 mm. to l'7o mm. wide;
leaves '9 mm. x '55 mm. segments, '2 mm., ’6 mm. x 'Imm. seg.,
T75 mm., V mm. x '9 mm. seg., '3 mm., 1. mm. x '6 mm. ; cells
•045 mm. x ^04 mm., -04 mm. x •OS mm., •OBS mm. x ^835 mm.;
stiqmles ^5 mm. x -08 mm., •SS mm. x •! mm., •S mm. x -1 mm.,
•275 mm. x •! mm., ^225 mm. x ^075 mm.; sub-bracts '75 mm.
x '4 mm. seg., '2 mm., '5 mm. x •S mm. seg., '2 mm., '6 mm.
X •S mm. seg., •! mm.; bracts !• mm. x •G mm. seg., '4 mm.,
1-25 mm. X •e mm. seg., '3 mm., 1-2 mm. x •S mm.; bracteole
•9 mm. X -5 mm. ; perianth 3^3 mm. x ^8 mra., 4' mm. x '75 ram.,
4- mm. X '5 mm. ; calyptra 1-6 mm. ; capsule ^85 mm. x -5 mm.,
•8 mm. x -3-4 mm.; valves •IS-^SS mm. broad; spores ^02 mm.;
elaters '2 mm. x •0125 mm.; amenta 2' mm. long ; qierigonial
bracts '5 mm. x '3 mm. seg., •! mm.; perigonial bracteole '2 mm.
X ^075 mm. ; antheridia ^175 mm. x •IS mm.
H ab.—“ In the wettest part of bogs, creeping upon Sphagna
and other mosses, sometimes partly floating.” R. S. Somewhat
rare.
2. New Forest, Hampshire, C. Lyell, 1813. 7. Glyder Vawr,
Carnarvonshire, G. A. Holt. 9. Delamere Forest, Cheshire,
W. Wilson. Abbots Moss, Cheshire, G. A. Holt. Carrington,
Moss, Cheshire, G. A. Holt. Wybunbury Bog, Cheshire, J.
Whitehead. Staley Brushes, Cheshire, J. Whitehead. Barton
Moss, Lane., IF. H. P. 10. Par Wheeldale and Goathland Moor,,
Yorks., Sam. Anderson. 12. Foulshaw Moss, Westmorland, G.
Stabler. 13. Barend Moss, nr. Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire,/.
16. Moidart, West Inverness, A. AT. Macvicar.
I. Kylemore, Co. Galwajq B. Aloore.
Pound on the Continent and in North America.
Obs.—First discovered by Mr. Lyell in the New Forest in
1813, and published and figured in “ Eng. Bot.” under the false
name of .Tmiyermania Francisci, from which it is quite distinct, as
will be seen by reference to the description and figures of that
species. Nees was the first to recognise it as a new and distinct
species, but lie appears afterwards to have doubted its claims to
specific rank, for he reduced it to a variety of Junyermania injlata
in his later works. As Dr. Spruce remarks, how such a consummate
hepaticologist should have confounded them it is difficult
to conceive, adding: “ I t may suffice to contrast their chief
characters, which are, for C.Jluitans, the stem rooting hy numerous
stout flagella; the branches, whether foliferous or floriferous, all
postical; the longer, narrower, and more la.vly-reticulate leaves;
the constant presence of stipules ; the cladocarpous inflorescence ;
the tristichous female bracts, toothed at the base, the innermost
embracing the periantli; finally, the lineari-fusiform, trigonous,
thin perianth. But in Junyermania injlata there are no flagella j