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by the margin of the apex, saccate, pendulous, 

 mouth funnel-shaped, lobate, everywhere 

 hairy with erect setae, bearded at insertion ; 

 capsule spiral, naked, four-valved, valves 

 spirally contorted ; elaters double, naked, de- 

 ciduous. — Gray Arr. /., 706 (182 1). Spruce 

 Hep. Amaz. p. 409. Cincinnulus, Dumort, 

 Hep. Eur. p. 115, A 3,/ 32. 



Plants stipulate, leaves incurrent, entire or emar- 

 ginate. 



Spruce says that although it is exceedingly 

 probable that Kantia is a marsupial form of Trigo- 

 nantheez, 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 CepJialozia in having all the 

 branches, whether foliifcrous 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 ; stipules orbicular, lunate-emar- 

 ginate; calyx pendulous; capsule four-valved, 

 twisted. 



i( * Jungermannia triehomanis, Dicks. Crypt. 

 ° T II., t. 8, f. 5; Hook. Br. Jung. t. 79; Eng. 

 Bot. t. 1835. Cincinnulus triehomanis, Dumort. 

 Comm. p. 113. Calopogeia triehomanis, Corda 

 Opiz. p. 653; Cooke Hep. f. 119. Kantia 

 triehomanis, Carr. and Pears. Exs. 126, 267. 



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