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angustior libera; bracteze mediz supremis sat minores minusque 
incisz ; omnes bractez pellucide elongate areolatze. 
Perianthia foliis fere 2-plo longiora, albida, pellucida, anguste trigono- 
fusiformia 8-plo longiora quam lata, superne obtuse triplicata, ore 
constricto breviter obsoleteve i incisa, leevissima, demum infra medium 
compresso-teretia, cellulis subrectangularibus conflata. Calyptra 
perianthio fere 4-plo brevior, pyriformis, tenuis (e cellularum strato 
unico) basi ipsa pistillidiis sterilibus sub 20 cireumdata, apice demum 
irregulariter bilabiatim rupta, labio altero stylo persistente rostellato. 
Capsula magna calyptre zquilonga, nigra, cylindrico-oblonga, stratis 
cellularum duobus constans, demum ab i ipsa basi 4-valvis, ‘pedicello 
valido suffulta. Elateres badii, elongati, tenues, utrinque perpaulo 
attenuati, spira duplice preediti, decidui, Spore minutissimee leves 
nucleate. 
Plante ¢ cum @ mixtre, tenuiores, pauciramese. Amenta antica, folio 
proximo breviora, tenuia, incurva albida. Bractez 8-juge, vel 
pauciores, foliis 4-plo breviores, tenerrime, suborbiculate, concave, 
lateribus incurvis, apice bilobe, interdum 4-lobe. Antheridia 
magna, solitaria, brevistipitata. Bracteolee ovate apice bidentate, 
supreme subrotundz bracteis vix minores. 
XIX. KANTIA Gray. 
Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (1821). Calypogeia § B Amphigastriate 
Raddi (1820); Calypogeta Nees, Hep. Eur.; G. L. et N. Syn. 
Hep. 
Plante majuscule, depresso-ceespitose, pallide virides, olivacezve, 
raro badiz, in sicco sepe fuscescentes, prostrate vel apicibus (sepe 
gemmiparis) assurgentes. Caulis sat validus, in planum simplex, 
raro furcatus, postice ramosus et radicellis prelongis, apice clavatis 
vel ramulosis, villosus. Folia majuscula imbricata incuba, alterna 
plana vel convexula, oblonga—interdum duplo longiora quam lata— 
seepe subrhomboidea, integerrima, apice rotundata retusave, rarius 
acuta, bidentata vel biloba; ced/ule laxze, majuscule—rarius magne 
vel mediocres—equilateree vel oblongo-hexagonz. oliola ubique 
presentia, foliis subduplo minora, subrotunda, raro reniformia, apice 
integra, retusa bifidave, margine integerrima, rarius denticulata 
spinulosave, vel utrinque unidentata-lobulatave ; plerumque pellu- 
cida, seepe tenerrima et quasi vitrea Flores hypogeni, in foliolorum 
axilla nidulantes, 1—3-ni, dioici vel monoici (interdum paroici), flore 
medio (in monoicis) perseepe ¢, flore utriusque lateris ¢. Bracteve 
2 2-3-juge, tristichze, foliis multo minores, subrotunde, ovales, 
lanceolateve, integre vel 2—4-fidee, subconnatee, demum in marsupii 
ore cum pistillidiis sterilibus persistentes. Pistillidia sub 12. Mar- 
suptum (in perianthii vicem) pendulum, subterraneum, clavatum_vel 
subcylindricum, carnosum, pluristratum, radicellis hirtum, ore brac- 
