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tish species save the following, is probably more generally dis- 

 tributed through Ireland than it is known to be at present. It 

 frequently grows among Sphagnum and other mosses, where it is 

 not readily noticed. 



2. Blepharostoma setacea (Web.), Mitt. Stems creeping. Leaves im- 

 bricated round the stem, deeply bipartite, the segments setaceous, 

 jointed, incurved. Colesule on short lateral branches, cylindrical, 

 mouth open and much ciliated. 



Jungermannia setacea, Weber, Spicil. Fl. Grott. p. 143; Hook. Brit. 

 Jiinger. t. 8 ; Smith, Engl. Bot. t. 2482 ; Dumort. Syll. Jung. 

 p. 63 ; Gr. L. et IS". Synop. Hepat. p. 144. Blepharostoma 

 setacea, Dumort. Bev. Jung, et Hepat. Europ. p. 93. Lepidozia 

 setacea, Lindb. Hepaticse in Hibernia lectse, p. 498 (1874). 



Hab. Bogs, and moist shady banks in woods, &c. Yery abundant in 

 the Killarney woods, and many other parts in Co. Kerry. Less 

 frequent through the northern and eastern counties. On moist 

 banks, parish of Basharkin, Co. Derry. 



Sub-tribe 6. JuxGEEiiAxifiE^. 

 €olesuIe and calyptra free. Eructification mostly termiual, 



ScAJPANiA, Dumortier. 



Jungermannia, Mich. iSTov. PI. Gen. p. 6, tab. 5, fig. 16 (1729); 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 1 ed., p. 1132 (1753). Martinellia, sect, a, in Gray's 

 Ifat. Axx. Brit. PL 1, p. 691 (1821). Eadula, Dumort. Comm. 

 Bot. p. 112 (1823); Carruth. in Seemann's Joum, Bot. 3, p. 301 ; 

 sect. 2, Lindenb. in G. L. et IST. Synop. Hepat. p. 63. Plagio- 

 chila, sect. 2, Scapaniae, jSTees, in Lindb. Introduct. Bot. 2 ed. 

 (1835). 



Eructification terminal, involucral bracts two, larger than the cauline 

 leaves. Colesule compressed, truncate at the apes, dentate or 

 entire, decurved at first. Capsule quadiivalvous, of thickest 

 texture. Leaves succubous, bilobed. Amphigastria wanting. 



(ff). Lohes of the leaves suhequal. 



1. Scapania coynpacta, Dumort. Stems procumbent, short, and sparingly 

 branched. Leaves conduplicate, bilobed, lobes rounded, entire. 

 Involucral bracts denticulate. Colesule crenulate at the mouth. 



Jungermannia compacta, Both, Germ. 3, p. 375 ; Lindenb. Synop. 

 Hep. p. 58. Jungermannia resupinata, Hook. Br. Jung. t. 23 

 (excl. syn.); Sm. Engl. Bot. tab. 2498. 



Hab. Banks among heath, &c. Common, Dr. Taylor. We have 

 not found it to be a common species by any means, but a rare 

 one in Ireland. The only specimens we have collected of the 

 true plant are from the neighbourhood of Brandon, Co. Kerry. 

 Sterile in both places where it was observed growing. 



