LEJEUNEA. 



•225 mm. x '225 mm.; bract, antical lobe 4 mm. x 1.') hum. 

 to "2 mm., lobule "35 mm. x 'l mm., antical lobe (i inin. 



X '2 mm., lobule "4 mm. x "1 5 mm. ; bractcole ".'5 mm. x •irjinm., 

 '55 mm. x *275 mm.; periantb '!) mm. x •.").") mm., T mm. 



X CiS mm. ; pcriL,'onial amentula "85 mm. x '4 mm. 



Hah. — E.\tremely rare, the only known station bein^^ on 

 shady rocks below Tore W'aterfall, Killarney, near enough to the 

 stream to be moistened by its spray, except when the water is 

 very low. It iij-rows chietly on Tliamninm alopcciirnm, accompanied 

 by Jiadiila Carri/n/tOfii, S(tcco(///na vUiculosa, Mch/jeria conjnyala, and 

 sometimes by Lejciinca diversiloba (6'. A. Hull, June 1885), R. S. 

 Obs. — " Differs from every other British h'jeimea in the 

 female flowers being* borne on exceedingly short branchlets, 

 which normally put forth no subfloral innovation such as con- 

 stantly exists in all our other species. In size it resembles 

 L.Jlava, or luxuriant A. serpi/IJifolia, but usually diff'ers at sight 

 from both by the pale reddish tinge of the foliage. Even where 

 the leaves are of the yellow-green of almost ripe limes, dried speci- 

 mens speedily assume a rufous hue when moistened. Another 

 important and unicpie character is afforded b}' the large pear- 

 shajjcd perianths being so very strongly and sharpl}' keeled that 

 at first sight they seem broadly 5-winged. The female flowers 

 often alternate, or are variously mixed up, with male catkins of 

 about the length of the adjacent leaf, and consi.sting of from 

 two to five pairs of C3'mbiform bracts. Where inflorescences of 

 both sexes are numerous (as they sometimes are), they render the 

 stem or branch elegantly pin nu late. 



The only species which L. Holt a might l)e conlbunded with is 

 L.Jlara (Sw.), which grows near it and in much greater abundance ; 

 but the former, although nearly equal in size, is iar more delicate 

 and pellucid, and its slight tinge of red is never seen in the 

 yellow or green foliage of L. jlava. The latter, besides the 

 essential difference of the perianths being terminal on branches 

 of various lengths or on the main stem, and invariably putting 

 forth from their base a leafy innovation or even a pair of opposite 

 innovations, each of which may in like manner hear an apical 



