660 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Grymnantlie "Wilsoui, Taylor, in Lehra. Fl. Xor. Piigill. 8, p. 1 ; Gr. L. 

 et K Synop. Hep. p. 192; Cooke, Brit. Hep. p. 15, fig. 114 j 

 Carring. Irish Hep., Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 7, p. 452 ; Duniort^ 

 Hep. Europ. p. 119. Acrobolbus "Wilsoni, Xees, in Gr. L. et 

 K". Synop. Hep. p. 5 (1844}. 



Hab. Moist banks ; mostly parasitical on tbe larger species of Hepa- 

 tic^, and so far as is yet ascertained, confined to the south-west of 

 Ireland. First discovered by Miss Hiitchins, near Bantiy, in 

 1812, according to Carrington, in Brit. Hepat. Cromaglaun, near 

 the Hunting Tower, W. Wilson, 1829. Tore Mountain, Kil- 

 lamey, Dr. Taylor, 1841. Glengarriff, Dr. Cariington, 1869. 



Sub-tribe 8. Eossoiibko^^ie^. 



Section 1. HAPLOinTEiE^. 



" Eructification terminal. Colesule wanting. Calyptra completely en- 

 closing the sporangium, much larger than the involucral bracts. 

 Eronds ascending, rhizomatous. Leaves trifarious." — Carrington 

 British Hepaticse. 



ScAxiA, Bennett, Gray. 



Jungermannia, Lyell, in Sm. Engl. Bot. 36, tab. 2555 (1813) ; Hook.. 

 Brit. lunger". (1816). Scalia, B. Gr. in Gray's jS'at. Arr. Brit. PL 

 1, p. 704, n 24 (1821) ; Lindb. in ^^ot. Soc. E. El. Eenn. 13, p. 

 378, n. 1 (1874). Mniopsis, Dum. Comm. Bot. p. 114 (1823); 

 Syll. Jung. Eur. p. 75 (1831). Haplomitrium, IS'ees, iSlat. Eur. 

 Leber. 1, p. 109, n. 2 (1833) ; Gottsche, in jS'ov. Act. Acad. Leop.* 

 Cffis. 20, pp. 267-398 (1843). 



Scalia Sooheri (Lyell), B. Gray. Dioecious. Stems in scattered 

 plants or patches, small, rarely more than half-an-inch in length, 

 erect and simple. Leaves imbricated round the stem, loosely 

 placed, irregularly shaped. Colesule wanting. Capsule oblong, 

 or somewhat club-shaped, 2-4 valved. Elaters persistent, double- 

 spired. 



Jungermannia Hookeri, Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 54 ; Lindenb. Synop. Hep. 

 p. 37 ; Ekart, Synop. Jung. p. 5, tab. 8, fig. 65. Mniopsis- 

 Hookeri, Dumort. Hepat. Europ. p. 121. Haplomitrion Hookeri, 

 jS'ees, Eur. Leberm. 3, p. Ill ; G. L. et X. Syn. Hep. p. 2 ; Cooke, 

 British Hepat. p. 3, fig. 14; Carring. Brit. Hepat. p. 1, pi. 1, fig. 

 1 ; Kabenhor. Hep. Eur. exsie. n. 324. 



Hab. On heathy sandy places, and damp mooiy ground. Very rare in 

 Ireland. Dr. Liadberg states that he saw one solitary female- 

 plant, sterile, at Connor Hill, near Dingle, in 1873. This is the- 

 only instance, I believe, of authority for inserting this as an 

 Irish plant. 



