This genus is, as far as I have been enabled to deter<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />mine, confined wholly to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName>: it occurs <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">on the mountains</del> <add place="intralinear">in moun<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />tainous</add> </subst> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">districts</add> usually at very considerable elevations. There are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />only four species; those which were known to <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004551 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118573349">Linné</persName> were <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />confounded by him with <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">Jungermannia</name>.