412 NEW HEPATICiE. 



2. F. Drummondii, Tayl. ; receptaculo foemineo conico, ob- 

 tuso, 4-lobato, areolis tumentibus scaberrimo ; pedunculo 

 supra indusii squamis linearibus, albidis apice purpureis 

 pilosissimo. 

 Hab. Swan River. Mr. James Drummond. Van Diemen's 

 Land. Gunn, Hook. Herb. 



Fronds 5 lines long. Lobes crenate, with a few dark purple 

 subulate obtuse scales beneath. Loculi usually 4, rarely 5. 

 Calyces whitish, tipped with pale purple. Seeds scabrous, 

 rotundato-triquetrous. Elateres twice as long as the seeds. 

 Peduncle with a wide groove in front. Approaches our F. 

 Nepalensis, but differs by the longer peduncle, which is naked 

 at the base, by the more conical female receptacles divided 

 into four lobes, by the more elongated calyx, by the deeper 

 division of the fronds, and by the crenate lobes. The male 

 receptacles are verruciform, pale, and terminal in the sinus 

 of the frond, sessile and very rough from the prominent locuh 

 of the oblong, erect anthers. 



25. Anthoceros, Linn. 



1. A. tuber osus, Tayl. ; fronde orbiculari, concava; loborum 

 marginibus elevatis, undulato-flexuosis, integerrimis ; sten- 

 lium linearibus tubera radicantia ferentibus ; capsula alato- 

 striata ; calyce obovato. 

 Hab. Swan River. Mr. James Drummond. 



Male fronds narrower. In sterile plants especially, but 

 not exclusively, at the extremities, lobes issue which are ter- 

 minated by opaque, solid, subcompressed oval tubers ; these, 

 beneath a dark cuticle, contain a farinaceous mass. Similar 

 tubers are found in certain other Hepatica of the same coun- 

 try, as in Pelatophyllum Preissii, L. et L., and in several 

 Riccia. These tubers have their own rootlets, and would 

 appear to be the place of refuge of the vital force during the 

 torrid season of the year, when every other part of the plant 

 is scorched up. They are, therefore, of the nature of buds. 

 Anthers 1-5, clustered and immersed in the central parts of 



