Bazzania Donniana, Hook.
Stem erect, near ly simple, f lexuous ; leaves
falcate-secund, tr iangular ly ovate, m a r g in ' revolute,
bidentate at the apex ; st ipules none ;
perianth terminal, ovate, plicate, mouth laciniate.
Jungermannia Donmana, Hook. Br. Jung.
No. 39 ; Eng. Bot. t. 2566 ; Co o ke Hep.
f. 84. Jungermannia trilobata, var. Hook. FI.
Scot. II., 117. Plcuroscliisma Donnianinn.
Dumort. Sy ll . Jung. p. 72.
Amongst moss on Mountains.
Growing in small loose tufts. Stems i to 2 or 3
inches long, erect, thread-like, flexuous,
but fragile, purplish-brown,
simple, or with one or two scattered
shoots. Leaves closely imbricated,
bifarious,oblong ovate,very concave,
margin often incurved (fig. 61),
slightly decurrent at the base,
divided at the apex by an acute
sinus, which is often concealed by
overlapping, forming two small obtuse
teeth, deep purplish brown.
Calyx ovate, plicate above, with a slightly-toothed
mouth.
G e n u s 1 2 . KANTIA, Gray.
ln\'olucre none ; perianth affixed laterally
by the margin of the apex, saccate, pendulous,
mouth funnel-shaped, lobate, e v e r ywh e r e
hairy with erect setae, bearded at insertion ;
capsule spiral, naked, four-valved, valves
spira lly contorted ; elaters double, naked, dec
iduous .— Gray A r r . I., 706 (1821). Spruce
Hep. Amaz. p. 409. Cincinnulus, Dumort.
Hep. E ur . p. 115, 3 , / 32.
Plants stipulate, leaves incurrent, entire or emarginate.
Spruce says that although it is exceedingly
probable tExxt Kantia is a marsupial form of Trigo-
nanthece, it is difficult to fix on any one genus of
that tribe of which it may be the direct descendant.
Its nearest existing ally seems to be Bazzania.
Kantia agrees with Cephalozia in having all the
branches, whether foliiferous or floriferous, postical,
axillary to the under leaves, in the monandrous
male bracts, and the two-layered capsule.
Kantia triehomanis, Dicks.
Stem creeping, branched; leaves entire and
emarginate ; st ipules orbicular, lunate-emarginate;
c a ly x pendulous; capsule four-valved,
twisted.
Jungermannia triehomanis, Dicks. Crypt .
III., t. 8, f. 5 ; Hook. Br. Jung. t. 7 9 ; Eng.
Bot. t. 1835. Cincinnulus triehomanis, Dumort.
Comm. p. 113. Calopogeia triehomanis, (ZovÚB.
Opiz. p. 6 5 3 ; Co o ke Hep. f. 119. Kantia
triehomanis, Carr, and Pears. Exs. 126, 267.