LEJEUNEA. 49 



PVnind on the Continent. Norway {Kaalda.s). 



Uns. — Dr. Spruce wrote me some years ago : " Lindbcrg's Le- 

 jcitnca jxilen-s is an excellent species. There arc fine patches of it 

 in Sir Win. Hooker's herbarium, jj^athered by Wilson at Killarney ; 

 also in Dickson's herbarium ; and it is probably the true type 

 of his L. scrpj/Uifolia. If so we should have to lall back on tlie 

 name cavifulia for what we have hitherto considered nerpyll [folia. 

 I found L. pafcns beiore Lindber<j did, and named it too, but 1 

 sujiposed it the same as a new species (L. hclicophijIUi) I had 

 gathered in the Andes. A more rigorous comparison obliges me 

 now to hold them distinct." 



L. pafr/i.s is distinguished from L. serpi/llifoUa in being a 

 smaller and more slender plant, with branches more intricately 

 interwoven, the remarkable manner in which the leaf diverges 

 from above the postical lobe, the proportionately larger and more 

 turgid postical lobe, and the angles of the perianth being more 

 winged and acute. 



With reference to the suggestion of Dr. Spruce I do not wish 

 to make any further alterations in the name, and as Prof. Lindberg 

 was the first to clearly define L. pafc/ni I prefer to retain the one 

 lie gave it. 



Description of Pi.atk XI. — Fig. 1. Plants natural size. 2. 

 Portion of stem, antical view x 31. 3. Ditto, postical view x 31. 

 4. Ditto, postical view x G4. 5. Portion of leaf x I'OO. (I, 7. 

 Bracts x G4. 8. Bracteole x G4. 9. Perianth x 31. 10. Cross 

 section of perianth x .'11. II. Perigoiiial bracts, postical view 

 X G4. 1:2. Antheridium x 85 (Killarney, IJolt and Stewart). 



0. Lejeunea flava [Snvirf::), Xccs. 



Jimfjemuinia Jiara, Swartz, Prodr. fl. Ind. occ. p. 1 II (17HS). 

 Lejeunea Jiara, Nees Nat. eur. Leb. :}, p. 277 (1H3S). 

 Lejeunea serpylli folia, var. thymifolia., C'arrington, Irish Crypt. (1>^(J3). 

 Lejeunea Moorei, Liridb. Hep. llib. p. tS7 (ls7."i). 



Monoicous, closely ca'spitose, snuill to medium in size, yelK>wish. 

 rarely very dark green in colour. Stems ])rostrate, sub-simple, 

 vaguely branched or pinnate, but slightly radiculose or rootless. 



