SCAPANIA. 20^ 



(Killarney, Dr. Carrington). 9, 10. l^racts x IS (G. & R. Hep. 

 Eur. n. 474). 11. Sub-bract x 18 (ditto). 13. AndroBcia 

 (Killarne}^, Dr. Carrington, G. & R. Hep. Eur. u. 474, drawn by 

 Dr. Gottsclie). 



Subtvibe V. SCAPANIOIDE^. 

 Genus 20. SCAPANIA, D/nii. 



Jungerma7iia, Mich. Nov. pi. gen. p. (! (17:^9); L. Sp. i)l. ed. 1, 2, p. 11. S2 



(1758). 

 Martinellia, sect, a Gr. & B. Nat. Ait. Brit. PI. 1. p. G91 (1,S21). 

 Eadula, Dum. Comm. p. 112 (1823). 



Badula, Dum. sect. 2, Scajmnia, Dum. Syll. Jung. Eur. p. o8 (1831). 

 Scapania, Dum. Recueil, 1, p. 14 (1835). 



Plants usually robust, some large, otbers rather small, olive- 

 green, reddish-brown or purple, growing in matted tufts or in 

 large masses in streams. Stems firm ; primary shoots creeping, 

 perennial, naked, rhizomatous, entangled ; secondary shoots foliose, 

 ascending, decurved at the apex, simple or dichotomously branched; 

 branches all exactly axillary to the leaves. Leaves disticho- 

 declinate, alternate, conduplicate, unequally bilobed ; postical 

 lobe larefer, convex ; antical lobe incumbent ; maro-ins entire, 

 dentate or ciliate. Stipules absent. Inflorescence dioicous, rarely 

 paroicous, terminal, liracts $ 2, free, resembling the leaves but 

 more equally lobed. Perianth much longer than the bracts, 

 frontally compressed, plane, not winged, mouth wide, truncate, 

 bilabiate, entire or dentate, decurved. Calyptra iree, included. 

 Capsule ovate, of thi(di texture, divided to the base into 4 equal 

 valves. Elaters attached to the centre of the valves, long, bispiral. 

 Androecia terminal or interrupted. Perigonial bracts smaller, 

 ventricose at the base, the lobes shorter and nearly equal. 

 Antheridia (3-12) axillary, oval, seated on a slender stipe. 



