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distant, deflexed, ovate oblong, falcate, apex acute or triden- 

 tate, stipules large subrotund. 



Mai. On damp peaty soil among rocks. Mount Brandon, 

 Dr. Moore. Connor hill, Lr. E. W. Scully, 1870. 

 3. Ba%%ania tricrenata, ^"alhenberg. Jtmgermania tricrenata 

 Wahlenb.ri. Cai-p., p. 364, n. 1207, 1814. Pearson, Hep. Brit. 

 Isles, p. 132, pi. 49. Densely csespitose flagelliferous, 

 brownish green, or dark brown in colour, stems slightly 

 branched, branches erect. Leaves subimbricate, alternate, 

 strongly deflexed, ovate, oblong, falcate, arcuate at the 

 antical margin, bi-tridentate at the apex. Stipules twice as 

 broad as the stem, roundish-quadrate or orbicular margin 

 irregularly crenate or dentate, sometimes emarginate. In- 

 florescence cladocai'pous, arising from the axil of stipule. 

 Perianth lanceolate, cylindiical plicate at the apex, mouth 

 small, denticulate. 



Sab. On damp banks among rocks. Barnanaghea lough, 

 Lett and McA., 1898. Lough Duff, Lett and :McA., May, 

 1899 ; Lough IS^alachan, Lett and McA., 1899 ; Mount 

 Brandon on Pleui'ozia, P.W.M. and D. McA., April 1897; 

 Coumanare lakes, Lett and McA., June, 1898. 



Genus 14. — "K"axtta, Bennett, Gray. 



1. Kantia Trichomanis, Dicks, B.Gr. Jung er mania Trichmianis, 

 Dicks, pi. Ciypt. fasc. 3., t. 8., fig 5. Hook. Brit. Jung., t. 79. 

 Pearson, Hep., Brit. Isles, ]). 135, pi. 51. 



Sah. On shady damp banks among rocks, and in woods ; 

 common. 



2. Kantia arguta, IS'ees, Lindberg. Calypogeia arguta, Mont, et 



iSTees in IS'ees IN'at. Eui'., Leb. 3, p. 24. Pearson, Hep. Brit. 

 Isles, p. 139, pL 53. 



Sal. On damp clay banks among rocks, and on the larger 

 Hepaticse. Xear Yentry, Lindberg and Moore, 1873. Among 

 Campylopus, Connor hill, Lindberg and Moore, 1873, F.W.M. 

 and D. McA., 1881, Lett and McA., Septr., 1898; damp 

 bank. Mount Eagle, Lett and McA, 1898. On the W. side 

 of Mount Brandon, Lett and McA., Septr., 1897. Maghanabo 

 glen, P.W.M. and D. McA., 1887. On Sooheria hicens, 

 Coumanare lakes, Lett and McA., 1898. Very fine on a bank 



