Moore — On Irish Hepaticce. 657 



Dumort. Comm. Bot. p. 112; Syll. Jung. p. 80, t. 2, et Hepat. 

 Europ. p. 129. Alicularia compressa, G. L. et N. Synop. Hep. 

 p. 12 ; Rabenhor. Hepat. Europ. exaic. n. 443, 472, 537. 

 ]N"ardia compressa, Carrington, Brit. Hepat. pi. 3, fig. 9. 



Hab. Sides of rivulets, and moist rocky places near waterfalls. Local 

 in Ireland, and chiefly confined to the Co. Wicklow, on the east 

 side, and Kerry on the south-west. First discovered by Miss 

 Hutchins, near Bantry, Cork. At Aooreagh river, near Sneem, 

 Dr. Taylor. Abundant at Upper Loughbray, more sparingly at 

 Luggielaw and Seven Churches, "Wicklow; Kelly's glen, Dublin; 

 Connemara — near Kylemore, Galway. 



Var. 13. rigida, Lindb. Near to N. sphacelata, but stems shorter, narrower, 

 and more rigid, more branched, more densely foliaceous, and here 

 and there flexuose. Leaves more spreading and rigid. Cells twice 

 the size, and thickened, generally highly coloured. 



Hab. Loughbray, Co. Wicklow, Dr. Lindberg. On boggy land near 

 Seven Churches, Co. Wicklow. 



Dr. Lindberg states that this form is intermediate between the typical 

 form of the species and its var. y. Carringtonii ; (Adelanthus Car- 

 ringtonii, Balfour, MSS. ; Nardia Carringtonii, Lindb. The first 

 plants of this which I collected were sent to Dr. Lindberg, who 

 named them N. Carringtonii without any reservation. 



Section C. Sotjthbta, Spruce. 



7. JSfardia ohovafa (Nees), Carrington. Stems ascending, clothed 



with purple rootlets. Leaves roundish, obovate, patent, base 

 contracted and somewhat saccate, alternate on lower portion of 

 stem, opposite at apex. Involucral leaves connate more than 

 half way with the colesule, the upper portion of which is free, 

 mouth toothed. 



Jungermannia obovata, Noes, Europ. Leberm. 1, p. 332; 2, p. 474; G. 

 L. et IS". Synop. Hepat. p. 95, n. 44 ; Fl. Danica, suppl. t. 118, 

 n. 2 ; Carring. Tr. B. Soc. Ed. 7, p. 447 ; Cooke, Brit. Jung. p. 8, 

 fig. 62. Jungermannia tersa, Nees, Europ. Leberm. p. 471 

 {ex parte), et Synop. Hepat. p. 94 (ex parte). Southbya obovata, 

 Dumort. Hepat. Europ. p. 133. Nardia obovata, Carring. Brit. 

 Hepat. p. 32, pi. 11, fig. 35. 



Hab. Moist rocks, and by the sides of rivulets. Tore Mountain, Kil- 

 larney, W. Wilson (1829). Lough Bray, Co. Wicklow. 



Var. fi. minor, Cromaglaun, Killarney, Dr. Carrington, Irish Crypt, in 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 7, part 3, p. 447, pi. 2, fig. 1. Connor 

 Hill, Kerry ; streams above Kylemore lake, Co. Galway. 



8. Nardia JiyaUna (Lyell), Carrington. Polycecious. Stem flexuose, 



creeping, ascending at the apex. Leaves roundish, subcrenulate 

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