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Hab. On red earthy clay, and also on yellowish clay banlta by a 

 stream near Orange G-rove, Cape Town. 



Stems forming pale whitish-green patches. Leaves spreading 



or incurved, here and there tinged slightly with red, about a third 

 i of a line in diameter, with pellucid cells sharply defined by narrow 



walls. Near to this, but differing in its more orbicular leaves, 

 I with larger cells and less divided stipules, is the AUculariaflexuosa 



(Lehm.), Gottsche, Lindenb. et Nees, Syn. Hep. 11, which may be 

 found to be congeneric when fertile specimens have been gathered. 

 * In the fructification, so far as can be seen from the specimens 



without capsules, the involucre resembles that of N. lutescem, 

 Lehm. et Lindenb., and iV^, Belangerianus eorund. {Jungermannid) ^ 

 both of which were placed, in the ' Synopsis,* in Oymnomitrium. All 

 the species emit many rootlets under the involucre, and seem to 

 approach nearly to the genera which have a descending torus, as 



in Lindigina. 



LiNDiGiNA, Gottsche. 



LiNnioiis^A SCABIOSA, Lehm. — Pug. iii. ( Jungermannia) ; Gym- 

 j nomitrium scariosum, Gottsche^ Lindenb. et Hees, Syn. Hep. 3, 



+ 



Caulis prostratus simplex crassus inferue radiculosus ex apice 

 ) innovans. Folia sursum secunda conniventia arctlssime imbricata 



opposita antice basi anguste combinata reniformia concava integer- 

 rima margine pallidiore scarioso limbata cellulis hexagonis parie- 

 tibus angustis pellucidis in folii medio granulis repletis areolata. 

 Perigynium tubulosum fuscum radiculosum longe in terram 



descendens. (PI. V. figs. 1-6.) 



Hab 



beside the pine-plantation near Cape Town. 



The 



The spe- 



cies is minute and seems to plough its way along the surface of the 

 earth by its thick stem, the leaves are so closely imbricated as to 

 appear on the upper surface like an uninterrupted edge; and it is 

 only when separated by the needle that their form or position is 

 discernible. The outline of the leaves is reniform, the wider end 

 being that towards the underside ; no important modification of 

 the leaves around the apex of the perigynium is observable ; but 

 no plants have been seen with capsules, and therefore none com- 

 pletely matured. 



A^erynearto tliis species is the LindigiaLiebmanniuna,Qottsche, 

 Mex. Leverm. 120, t. 20 (Gymnanthe), from Me^iico, wliich has 



LllW. 30URN. — BOTAKT, TOL. XTI. P 



