628 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Gr. L. et ^N". Synop. Hcpat., p. 143 ; Taylor, inFl. Hib., p. 2, p. 60. 

 Anthelia Turneri, Dumort. Eev. Jung., p. 18 ; et Hepat. Europ., 

 p. 99 (1874). Cephalozia Turneri, Lindberg, in Journal of Linn. 

 Soc, vol. xin., p. 191. 



Hab. Shady damp banks. By the side of a mountain rivulet near 

 Bantry, Co. Cork, Miss Hutchins, bearing female fruit in ILareh, 

 ( 1 8 1 1 ) [?] On a Tvet sandy bank at Cromagloun, Co. Kerry, bear- 

 ing autoecious colesules, 23rd July, 1873, Dr. Lindberg. I am 

 not aware that this exceedingly rare plant has been collected 

 elsewhere in the British Isles, or by any other person than those 

 named. 



LoPHocoLEA, Dumortier. 



Jungermannia, Mich. Nov. PI. Gen. p. 8, tab. 51, fig. 12 (1729); L. 

 Sp. PL 1 ed., 2, p. 1132 (1753); Hooker, Brit. Jung. (1816).. 

 Lophocolea, Dumort. Eecueil, 1, p. 17 (1835); 1^'ees, ]N"at. Eur. 

 Leber., 2, p. 321 (1836). 



Involucre oligophyllous, dentate or cleft. Colesule sessile, cylindiical,. 

 mouth 3-cleft and ciistated. 



1. Lopliocolealidentata,'L\wa..{J)v^m.oYi}) Autoecious. Stem procum- 



bent, branched. Leaves accumbent, broadly ovate, slightly deeur- 

 rent and emarginate, acutely bidentate. Amphigastria bi-tri-fid,. 

 laciniated. Colesule oblong-triangular, mouth laciniated. An- 

 theridia in the axillaj of the perigonial bracts, two or three- 

 together. 



Jungermannia bidentata, Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 606 ; Hook. Brit. Jung, 

 t. 30 ; Taylor, in El. Hib. 2, p. 64. Lophocolea bidentata,. 

 Dumort. Eev. Jung., p. 17 ; et Hcpat. Europ., p. 83. Lophocolea 

 Hookeriana, j^ees, G. L. et X. Synop. Hepat., p. 161 ; Cogn. Hepat. 

 Belg., p. 33; G. L. et N. in Synop. Hepat. Europ. The latter 

 refer the J. bidentata, Linn., to another species, and state that 

 the var. y. of it is found near Dunkerron, Kerry, by Dr. Taylor.. 

 "We suppose this is the form he mentions in El. Hib. 2, p. 64, 

 "which grows near Blackwater bridge, " with the calyces acutely 

 triangular, the angle corresponding to the inferior side of the- 

 stem serrate." 



Yar. /3. cusindata (Gottsche). On dead trees, Killarney, Dr. Carring- 

 ton. 



Yar. y. gracile, Carrington, Irish Hepat., Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb.,. 

 vol. 7, p. 452, pi. 11, fig. 6. Woods, KiUarney. 



2. LopliocoJea heterophylla (Schrad.), Dumort. Stems ascending, 



branched. Leaves roundish, quadrangular, obtusely emarginate. 

 Involucral bracts lobed and dentate. Amphigastria 2-3 fid, and 

 dentate. Colesule terminal, mouth crested. 



