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Patches loose, blackish-purple. Stems 2-3 inches long. 

 Cellules of the leaves minute and condensed at the periphery, 

 large in the centre. The auricles do not descend below the 

 margins of the leaves. Stipules embracing the stems. Each 

 of the perigonial leaves contain one or two round, pedicellated, 

 greenish anthers. This may be known from F. trinervis, 

 L. et L., by the leaves not being semivertical, by their thinner 

 texture, by their minuter cells, by the smaller auricles, and 

 by the larger and wider stipules. 



16. F. aculeata, Tayl. ; caule gracili, debili, implexo, procum- 

 bente, vage subbipinnato ; foliis laxis, patentibus, cauli 

 circumvolutis, cordato- triangularibus, setaceo-acuminatis, 

 mtegerrimis, margine subreflexis j auriculis minutis, cylin- 

 dricis, cauli adpressis ; stipulis oblongis, bifidis, sagittato- 

 amplexantibus ; perigoniis lateralibus, sessilibus, oblongo- 

 rotundatis. 



Hab. Near Cuenca. Prof. William Jameson, Hook. Herb. 



Gallapagos Islands. Darwin. 



Patches reddish-brown. Stems 3-4 inches long. Leaves 

 m a dry state circumvolute around the stem. It is allied to 

 Jung, atrata, Swartz ; but the leaves are more distant and 

 their tops elongated and acuminated into a setaceous 

 point. 



17. F. spinifera, Tayl. ; caule implexo, procumbente, vage 

 ramoso ; foliis imbricatis, reflexo-patentibus, ellipticis, ob- 

 tusis, integerrimis ; auriculis minutis, inferioribus galeatis, 

 extus acuminatis, caeteris ac plurimis evolutis, subulatis, 

 rectis, antrorsum unispinosis ; stipulis planiusculis, circu- 

 laribus, acutissime bifidis; perichaetiis ramulos proprios 

 terminantibus, eorum foliis acutis, stipulari profunde bifido, 

 segmentis laciniato-dentatis. 



Hab. Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. Sinclair, Hook. Herd. 



Patches wide, rather dense, olive-green. Stems scarcely 

 h an inch long. In a few of the inferior leaves the auricle 

 is sometimes helmet-shaped, usually however, it is short, 

 setaceous, articulated, opaque; in the upper leaves and always 

 >n the pericheetial it is expanded, subulate, and has the mar- 



