568 HEPATICE ANTARCTICA. 
Has. Campbell’s Island. 
Tufts overtopping other mosses, scarcely an inch high, 
dark purplish-brown. Stems often bent, having a pair of 
annual shoots from the end of the shorter stem of the pre- 
ceding year. Leaves so imbricated, as well as so secund, as 
to leave a channel along the upper part of the stem, which 
is usual in this subdivision of the genus. The leaves are 
somewhat scymetar-shaped, that is with their posterior 
margin slightly bent back, while the anterior is gibbous. 
The entire leaves distinguish at once the present from its - 
European congener, J. concinnata, Lightf., while the Cape of 
Good Hope Gymnomitrion scariosum, Nees. which likewise: 
has entire foliage, displays a different habit altogether with is 
pale lemon-coloured shoots, its thinner leaves, and above al | 
with the presence of stipules. es 
3. 1. ochrophylla, n. sp.; caule decumbente inflexo ramoso, 
folis distichis imbricatis erecto-patentibus concavis 09- 
ovatis emarginatis segmentis obtusis, stipulis subnullis. 
Has. Lord Auckland's group. ue 
In loose patches, some inches in diameter, very pale green. - 
Stems about an inch long, irregularly branched, somewhat 
thickened above. Leaves slightly amplexicaul on opposite - 
sides of the stems, their notch shallow, their segments nearly P 
equal and obtuse, themselves imbricated but not adpressed, 
from a narrow concave base obovate. ‘The stipules are 
sometimes observable as very minute oblong scales, scarce" 
notched on their summits; very frequently, however, t 
are altogether absent. This may be distinguished from o 
I. perigonialis by its greater size, its paler colour, its leaves 
being more crowded, their segments more obtuse, their 
cellules much larger and the stems much thicker. 
(Sarcoscyphus, Nees.) 3 
4. I. perigonialis. n. sp.; caule cæspitoso erecto subramosey 
folis subcontiguis erectiusculis secundis basi ample i 
libus integerrimis obovatis, emarginatis, segmentis intequa- 
libus obtusiusculis, perigoniis ovato-oblongiis, eorum 
