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Sub-tribe 4. Saccogyke^, Dumortier. 



Inyolucral bracts wanting. Colesule pendulous, fixed by the margin- 

 to the under side of the stem. 



Kantia, Bennett, Grray. 



Jungermannia, Mich. Nov. PI. Gen., p. 8, n. 2, tab. 5, fig. 14 (1729) ;-. 

 Dicks. Fasc. PI. Crypt. Brit. 3, p. 10, tab. 8, fig. 5 (1793); 

 Hook. Brit. Jung. (1816). Kantia, B. Gr. in Gray's Nat. Arr. Brit. 

 PL I, p. 706 (1821). Cincinnulus, Dumort. Comm. Bot. p. 113 

 (1823). Calypogeia, Corda, in Opiz, Beitr. 1, p. 653 (1829). 



Colesule dorsal, oblong-acuminate, lobcd at the mouth, and hairy,, 

 subterranean. 



1. Kantia trichomanis (Dicks.), B. Gr. Stem procumbent, branched. 



Leaves succubous, ovate, entire or emarginate. Amphigastria 

 orbicular, crenulato-emarginate. 

 Jungermannia trichomanis, Dicks. PI. Crypt, fasc. 3, t, 8, f. 5 ; 

 Hook. Brit. Jung. tab. 79 ; Ekart, Synop. Jung. p. 40, tab. 4, 

 fig. 35 ; PI. Dan. tab. 1896 ; Engl. Bot. tab. 1875 ; Taylor, in 

 El. Hib. 2, p. 64. Calypogeia fissa, Eaddi, Mem. Mod. 18, 

 p. 44; G. L. et N. Synop. Hep. p. 198. Cincinnulus tricho- 

 manis, Dumort. Syll. Jung. p. 72; Bev. Jung. p. 21, et Hepat. 

 Europ. p. 15. 



Hab. On wet shady banks and woods. Erequent in many parts of 

 Ireland ; very abundant about Killarney. 



2. Kantia arguta{^.~^l.'),\AVi&. Dioecious. Stem elongated near the 



apex, with smaller and more remotely placed leaves, often tipped 

 with gonidiferous gemmae. Leaves roundish, oblique, apex 

 bidentate, fragile, divergent. Amphigastria deeply bifid, segments^ 

 subulate, divergent. 



Calypogeia arguta, N. M., in Nees, Europ. Leber. 3, p. 24, n. 2 ; 

 G. L. et N. Synop. Hepat., p. 199, n. 2; Dill. Hist. Muse. tab. 70, 

 fig. 12; Engl. Bot. tab. 1875. Cincinnulus argutus, Dumort. 

 Hepat. Europ. p. 117 (1874). Kantia arguta, Lindberg, in Mani- 

 pulus Muscorum secundus, p. 363, Helsingfors (1874). 



Hab. On wet banks. Yery rare in Ireland. The few Irish specimens- 

 known were collected at Luggielaw, Wicklow, creeping over the- 

 stems of Nardia compressa. Dr. Lindberg detected them among 

 my specimens when examining them. 



Saccogvna, Dumortier. 



Jungermannia, Mich. Nov. PL Gen., p. 8, tab. 5, fig. 4 (1729); Sm. 

 Engl. Bot. tab. 2513 (1813) ; Hook. Brit. Jung. (1816). Lippia, 

 B. Gr. in Gray's Nat. Arr. Br. PL 1, p. 706 (1821). Saccogyua, 

 Dum. Comm. Bot., p. 1 13 (1823). Sykorea, Corda, in Opiz, Beitr. 

 1, p. 653 (1829). Calypogeia, Eaddi, MSS., Corda, in Sturm, 



