LEJEUNEA HOLTII, A NEW HEPATIC FROM KILLARNEY. 79 
L. patens, very abundant around Killarney, where it was first 
clearly distinguished by Lindberg, and now proved to have a wide 
Tunguragua a very close ally in L. cochleata nob. microscopica 
has several tropical American representatives, none of which, 
however, has (like it) paroicous inflorescence calyptrifolia, one 
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America, both sterile and very scarce. A few other allied species 
are known, chiefly from eastern equatorial countries.* 
e begin now to perceive that what we have chosen to call 
“ Britannic” Lejeunee, &c., are in reality of tropical type; that 
so nearly that we cannot doubt their having ommon origin 
at some period possibly not very remo n re we must 
observe that as the moss-flora alone is concerned, the whole 
Tropical. We have seen what uniformity pervades the hepatic 
vegetation of the north temperate zone. The uniformity is no less 
triking when we compare the true mosses of Europe with those of 
complete. Thus, of 14 American species of Dicranum, 18 were 
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* In a paper, “On Anomoclada, &e.,” contributed to the ‘ Journal of Botany’ 
for 1876, I ventured to identify a Lejeunea from the Quitenian Andes with 
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ep. 5 d. 169, t. 5. A Fossombronia, too, cited in 
the same paper as F. pusilla, has proved very distinct, and it now stands as F. 
it. Since commencin 
e 
_ (P’Herminier), and on it I found four stems of a 
. 4 L.- calypieifelill with a longer cuspis to the leaves, and the 
ve spini projections at the top of the perianth so much lengthened that 
they may rather be called h There is no other difference, and all 
