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branches postical axillary to the stipules. Leaves rather large, 

 imbricate, incubous, alternate, plane or convexiilous, oblong, some- 

 times twice as long as broad, often subrhomboid, entire, apex 

 rotundate or retuse, rarely acute, bidentate or bilobed ; cells lax, 

 rather large, rarely large or of medium size, quadrate or oblong- 

 hexagonal. Stipules everywhere present, about half the size of 

 the leaves, subrotund, rarely reniform, apex entire, retuse or bifid, 

 margin entire, rarely denticulate or spinulose or on both sides 

 unidentate or lobulate ; often very delicate. Flowers hypogenous, 

 produced from the axils of the stipules, dioicous or monoicous 

 (sometimes paroicous). Bracts ? 2-3 pairs, tristichous, much 

 smaller than the leaves, subrotund, oval, or lanceolate, entire or 

 2-4-fid, subconnate. Pistillidia about 12. Perianth pendulous, 

 attached by one side of its mouth to the stem, pendant or 

 descending into the earth, clavate or subcylindrical, carnose, 

 pluristratose, hairy. Calyptra membranous, a little shorter than 

 the perianth, attached to the perianth, but free in the upper 

 fourth part. Capsule on a long, firm pedicel, cylindrical, 3-4 

 times longer than broad, bistratose, inner layer with semi- 

 annular fibres, valves linear, twisted, deeply coloured. Elaters 

 filiform, somewhat short, subobtuse, bispiral. Spores minute, 

 about the same diameter as the elaters, scaberulous. 



1. Kantia Trichomanis (Z.). Gr. 8f B. 



Jungermania terrestris rejiens, foliis ex rotundinate acuminatis, bijidis, apertura 



2Jene visihili, Mich. Nov. pi. gen. 8, t. 5, f. 14 (1739). 

 Mniuvi Trichomanis facie, foliis integris, Dill. Hist, muse, p. 23G, t. 31, f. 5 



(1741). 

 Mniicm Trichomanis facie, foliis hifidis, Dill. Hist, muse, p. 237, t. -M, f. 6 



(1741). 

 Mnium IVichomanis, Linn. Sp. pi., p. 1571) (17");')). 

 Milium flssnm, Linn. Sp. pi., p. 1579 (1753). 

 Janyermania 7'richoma7iis, lYicks. PI. crypt. Biit. fasc. Ill, t. 8, f. 5 (1793); 



Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 79 (1816). 

 Junyermania fissa, Scop. Fl. Carn. 2, p. 348 (1772). 

 Kantia Trichomanis, Gi\ k B. Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. p. 70(1 (1821). 



