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dry state, appear knotted with distant, rounded, adpressed 

 leaves ; segments of the leaves lanceolate. Perichsetium of 

 3 or 4 pairs of concave, broad, oblong leaves, whose divisions 

 at top are very shallow. This has much the habit of Jung, 

 microphylla, Hook.; but the branches are far more simple, and 

 the leaves larger and more concave. 



5. L. tetrapila, Hook. fil. et Tayl. ; caule implexo, procum- 

 bente, subpinnato ; ramis attenuatis ; foliis stipulisque im- 

 bricatis, basi oblongis, patentibus, apice erectis quadrispi- 

 nosis, spinis articulatis, cellulis majoribus. 



Hab. New Zealand; n. 119. 1844. Dr. J. D. Hooker. 



Tufts loose, pale olive-brown. Stems about 1 inch long, 

 sometimes closely pinnated again with distant, irregularly 

 placed branches, which on the tops of the plants are often 

 incurved. Flagelliform shoots are likewise present. Leaves 

 with bases patent even in the dry state. Cells remarkably 

 large and strongly denned. No fruit observed. This plant 

 is larger than L. lavifolia, Hook. fil. et T. and has much 

 longer leaves ; again, L. plumulosa, Gottsche, and L. capil- 

 iaris, Nees, have the divisions of the leaves quite setaceous, 

 whilst in our plant they are spines with broad bases. 



6. L. parvistipa, Tayl. ; caule debili, laxe implexo, procum- 

 bente, pinnato ; foliis approximatis, subpatentibus, grosse 

 cellulosis, oblongis, quadrispinosis, antice subgibbosis; 

 stipulis minutis, subquadratis, quadridentatis. 



Hab. Swan River. Mr. James Drummond. 



Patches very loose, pale glaucous-green. Stems almost 

 2 inches long, rather unequally pinnated; stipules nearly 

 square, scarcely exceeding the stem in breadth. Related 

 to L. glaucophylla, Hook. fil. et T., but the leaves are 

 much longer and their cells larger, whilst the stipules are 

 relatively much smaller. 



7. L. coilophylla, Tayl. ; caule laxe caespitoso, procumbente, 

 pinnato; ramis attenuatis, flagelliformibus ; foliis stipu- 

 lisque imbricatis, rotundato-ovatis, quadridentatis, conca- 

 vissimis. 



Hab. Gongo Soco. Mr, Bunbury t Hook. Herb. 



