CHANDONANTHUS. 115 



cells '025 mm. x -02 mm., '03 mm. x -02 mm., 025 mm. 

 X '025 mm. ; stipules *5 mm. x '4 ram., seg. '35 mm. ; sub- 

 bracteole "7 mm. x '5 mm., seg. "5 mm. ; bract Tl mm. x 75 mm., 

 segments '4 mm., '5 mm., '6 mm.; bracteole I'l mm, x -75 mm., 

 seg. '6 mm.; perianth 1"8 mm. x "9 mm.; cilia at the mouth 

 •175 mm. 



Hab. — Grrowing in large entangled patches or straggling 

 amongst mosses in alpine situations. Very rare. 



15. Balmoral, Geor//e Stabler, July 1884. 



Var. alpi,ia. 15. Catlow Hills, C. Lt/ell, 1813, Glen Dole, 

 1855, lib. Carrim/fo)i. Glen Muick, J. Sim.. Slack of Birnie, 

 ./. Sim. Cairngorm, J/ooker. Scotch Alps, Dickson, Donn. 



Found on the Continent and in North America. 



Obs. — Very distinct and not to be confounded with any other 

 of our British species. As Dr. Spruce remarks : " The whole 

 habit, the leaves and their cells, &c., recall Chandonanlhus .sqifarrosns 

 and hirfeUii-s." By some authorities it has been referred to Blcp/ia- 

 rostoma, but in that genus the perianth is uniformly trigonous ; 

 by others to A?ithelia, where the leaves are only bifid and along 

 with the stipules, which are similar and give a tristichous insertion 

 to them ; the perianth also is not so multiplicate. 



Hooker figures the mouth of the perianth without cilia, but 

 in well developed specimens it is beset with them. It is only 

 recently that copious specimens with perianths have been found 

 in Norway. 



The var. alpina., Hook. [Jmu/ermania jihim, Dum.), is a much 

 smaller form, very slender, filiform, with more distant and less 

 dentate leaves; it might be confounded with Antlielia j/dacea, but 

 is at once distinguished by its quadripartite leaves. 



The typical form has, so far as I know, only been found in 

 Britain by Mr. George Stabler. 



I have not seen the male plant nor perfect fruit. 



Description of Plate XLII. — Fig. 1. Plants natural size. 

 2. Portion of stem x ?. 3. Leaves x 31 (Balmoral, G. Stabler). 

 4, 5. Leaves, explanate x 24 (ditto). 6-8. Leaves x 31 (ditto). 

 9. Leaf and stipule x 24 (ditto) 10. Segment of leaf x 85 



