82 Anthelia 



Hah. on moist rocks in the higher mountains of the northern hemi- 

 sphere, from the Pyrenees and Italy to Lapland, Spitzhergen, Iceland 

 and Greenland. A"ar. /3 in the same sites as the type : not unfreqiient 

 in the Northern Alj)s ; P}T:enees, near the snowline on 2It. CraUoules 

 (e. s. Sept. 1845).* 



2. Anthelia jueatzkana (Limpr.) 



Jung. Juratzkana Limpr., Flora von Schlesien, a. 1877. 



Paroica, A. julacea minor, pallida, apice virens vel giaucescens, sub- 

 ramosa, tota fere longitudine radicellosa. Folia foliolaque iis A. julacecB 

 parum diversa, in exemplis Suecicis ssepe ad \ solum fissa, segmentis 

 triangularibus : in Styi'iacis et Scoticis antem ad vel ultra -| fissa, seg- 

 mentis angustioribus subacuminatis ; celhdcc. (^'35 — 1/30 mm^ jig ^_ julacea 

 majores et pellucidiores. Bracte^ floris bisexualis (in ipso caule termi- 

 nalis) plurijugse, laxiuscule capitatae, foliis sensim majores, conformes 

 nisi basi latiore ventricosa antheridiifer®, apice paucispinulosa). (Flores 

 ramos terminantes perseepe tenuiores et unisexuales, i.e. foeminei.) 

 Perianthia ovato-oblonga"; castera iis A.JidacecB confcrmia, 



J. nivalis Sw. in Schleich. exsicc. no. 1803 (a. 1821) ; Walil. Flor. Suec, 

 pro parte. 

 Hab. in summo monte Warscheneck Austrise sux^erioris alt. 2200 ™ 

 detexit cl. Jukatzka! Suecia (swaktz, wahlenbeeg, &c.). Lapponia 

 Pitensis, in alpe Tjldtjalsk (lindbekg! 1856). In monte Grimsd Hel- 

 vetise, cum Marsupella sphacelata /^schimpee ! 1847). On moist rocks be- 

 low the summit of Ben Xecis in fruit, Aug. 1880 (w. west !) 



Obs. Apart from the inflorescence, ^. Juratzkana differs trom A. jidacea by 

 characters so slight that it may well be the two are merely forms of a single species ; 

 as in the analogous Blepharostoma trichophylluin, where dioicous and paroicous 

 inflorescences certainly coexist. [See below my description of that species.] 



However that may be, there is no evidence to show that either Swartz or Wah- 

 lenberg discriminated between the tv/o forms, and did not equally include the jf. 

 jidacea of Lightfoot, as well as y. jfiiratzkana, under their name " y. nivalis^'; so 

 that, whether species or variety, to Limpricht belongs the honour of first distinguish- 

 ing jf. jfiiratzkana by its inflorescence. 



* This is the form I and others have always identified with the var. clavuligera of Nees, and it 

 certainly accords better with his phrase "exigua, caulibus rigidis confertis, ramulis brevibus clavatis, 

 foliis densissime imbricatis", than does A. Juratzkana, which Lindberg considers synonymous with 

 that variety. 



