HEDWIGIA. 
Organ für Kryptogamenkunde 
Repertorium für kryptog. Literatur. 
Redigirt von Prof. Dr. K. Prantl. 
1889. Mai u. Juni. Heft 3. 
Hepaticae Australiae. 
Von F. Stephani. 
ll. 
Fimbriaria Whiteleggeana St. n. sp. Monoica, - 
frons 1—2 cm longa, linearis, simplex, interdum ex apice 
cuneate innovans, pallide virens, in aetate pallide-flavi- 
cans, carnosa, antice subplana, marginibus tenuibus adscen- 
tibus plicatulis, postice purpurea; squamae ventrales econti- 
guae, oblongae, purpureae, appendiculo triplo bre- 
viore, ovato, hyalino, margine crenato, apice obtuso; 
pori ut in congeneribus, i. e. intus lamina convexa medio 
perforata quasi clausi. 
Pedunculus in frondis primariae apice emarginato termi- 
nalis, longissimus, fronde triplo longior, purpureus, filiformis, 
basi postica paleis ligulatis roseis obteetus, apice paleis lanceo- 
lato-subulatis hyalinis vestitus, trigonus, canalis rhiziferus 
singulus; carpocephalum parvum 2—3 loculare, conico-hemi- 
sphaericum, grosse papulosum, loculorum margo integer; 
erianthia magna carpocephalo aequilonga, in rimis 14 de- 
issantis ‚ ovato-conica, hyalina; capsula sphaerica, magno 
bulbo inserta, pedunculo brevissimo, purpurea, pariete cellulis 
unistratis laxis conflata, opereulata, i. e. supra medium linea 
irregulariter circumseissa dehiscens; sporae fuscae, magnae 
0,1 mm in diam, late marginatae, elateres 0,15 mm longi, 
purpurei, bispiri, fibris anguste tortis. 
Androecia in frondis femineae superficie, pedunculo 
carpocephali approximata, diseiformia, nuda, purpurea, ostio- 
lis 5 longis, conico-rostratis, 
Hab. N. S. Wales, Burn’s Bay, Lane Cove, leg. 
Whitelegge. — Queensland, leg. F. M' Bailey Herb. Bro- 
therus No. 33. 
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