614 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



23. Jungermania {Lophozid) harhata, Sclireber, Hook. Brit. Jung., 



t. 70 ; Eng. Bot., t. 2547. Damp bank, amongst Diplo- 

 phyllum, on Slieve Glah, very scarce. 



24. Jungermania (Lophozia) ventricosa, Dicks, Hook. Brit. Jung., t. 



28 ; Carr and Pearson, Exs. 'No. 171. Damp bank, Slieve 

 Glah, scarce. 



25. Jungermania (Zophozia) alpestris, Scbl. ; Junger. alpestris, Schleich. 



Exs., cent. 2, n. 59, Nees., Europ. Leberm, 2, p. 104, 

 Gr. L. et N. Syn. Hepat., p. 113. Damp bank, Slieve Glah, 

 sparingly. 

 Dioecious, stem strong, creeping, or erect from tbe upper half, 

 simple or devaricately branched near the apex, clothed on the under 

 side with white rootlets, which is often violet-coloured for its whole 

 length. Leaves in two rows, vertical, increasing in size from the 

 base upwards, sub-quadrate, two-lobed, rarely three-Iobed, segments 

 of various depths, acute or obtuse, often widely and obtusely notched 

 at the apex, sinus shallow, in some leaves scarcely perceptible. 

 Perichffitial leaves three or four times acutely divided ; stipules, none. 

 Perianth obovate or obovate oblong, terminal or lateral. Antheridia 

 remarkably large, placed singly at the base of each leaf, which is 

 closely imbricated and saccate at the base, patent at the apex, re- 

 curved, of a pale violet colour. 



This interesting plant was first reported from Kinnordy* (Co. 

 Kerry ?), where it was collected by Dr. Taylor many years ago. I 

 cannot find any record of its reappearance in Ireland, till I rediscovered 

 it on Benbulbin, Co. Sligo, in 1881, when collecting plants therewith 

 Mr. F. "W. Moore, a.l.s. I was in some difficulty as to what to refer 

 it to, as the specimens bore no perianth, and I sent a portion of what I 

 gathered to Mr. M. B, Slater, f.l.s., of Yorkshire, an excellent autho- 

 rity on liverworts, who preserved my specimen to be further examined, 

 in the hope of my being able to find it in some other locality, and in 

 more perfect condition, which I was fortunate enough to do a few 

 years later, gathering ample material in the Co. Wicklow, in good 

 condition. Jungermajiia excisa, Dicks, Hook., Brit. Jung. Supp., t. 2, 

 collected near Dublin by Dr. Taylor, probably also belongs to Junger- 

 mania alpestris. Pieferring to it, Dr. D. Moore states in his excellent 

 paper on the Irish Hepaticse : — " This plant has not turned up among 

 the widely extended gatherings made by me in many parts of Ireland, 



* Dr. Camngton, " Gleanings among the Irish Cryptograms," Trans. Bot. Soc. 

 Edin. vol. vin. p. 379. 



