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stem, near or connate to the adjacent leaf, broadly subulate, 

 entire or bifid to about J, segments and sinus acute. 



? and ^ not seen. 



Demensions. — Stems \ in. long, with leaves -15 mm. to '2 mm. 

 wide, diam. '05 mm. to '075 mm. ; leaves '2 mm. long x •2 mm. 

 wide at widest part, '\7b mm. x '175 mm., "175 mm. x •125mm., 

 •125 mm. x '1 mm., '1 mm. x '1 mm. ; cells '015 mm. to "02 mm. ; 

 stipules "075 mm. long x '05 mm. broad, "OG mm. x -O:] mm., 

 •04 mm. X 03 mm. 



Hab. — 1(5. "On birch trees growing on the bark and on 

 FniUania ; on a rock in a ravine creeping among Radiila aqn'degia 

 with Lejcimea ovafa, L. micro-wopica, Plaf/iochila piuicfafa, and P. fri- 

 denticidaia. On the trees it grows in reddish-brown patches 

 of a few inches, or creeping over the Fndlauia.'' Moidart, West 

 Inverness, S. Jl. Macvicnr. 



I. Growing parasitically on Fndlania Tamarhci near Bantry, 

 Miss Hutchins. Cromaglown, Dr. Taijhr, Dr. Carri/if/ton, 

 Dr. Moore. Killarney, Dr. Carriugton. Connor Hill, Kerry, 

 D. McArdle. 



Stavenger, Norway, Dr. B. Kaalaas. 



Extremel}^ rare ; the above are the onl}^ known stations. 



Obs. — Although no t or % have been observed on this species. 

 Dr. Spruce (Hep. Amaz. et And. p. 440) has no hesitation in 

 referring it to the genus C/asmafocolea founded by him on a species 

 he collected on the Andes. He writes : " These curious little 

 plants come very near Lophocolea, but are well distinguished by 

 the peculiar habit ; the asyurgent leaves, with a plane antical 

 margin — not convexo-deHexed, with the antical margin decurrent 

 and recurved at the base (as in Lophocoh'a); the biform stipules 

 mostly entire, but some bifid. The ])erianth, turgid and indistinctly 

 carinate, is so fragile that the slightest touch breaks off" the short 

 unequal lobes at the wide mouth. I cannot doubt that the Irish 

 Ji()i(/. cuneifolia, Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 64, hitherto known only from 

 sterile specimens, is a true Clasmatocolea. Specimens gathered a 

 few years ago by McArdle are so like the arcuate barren shoots of 

 Cl.frapi/liiiia that, until I compared them closely, I thought them 



