LIST OF HEPATIC^ COLLECTED BY MR. THOMAS 

 WHITELECGE IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1884-5. 



By B. Carrington, M.D., F.R.S.E., and W. H. Pearson. 



(Communicated by Thomas Whitelegge.) 



{Plates xxii-xxxvii). 



1. Frullania cinnamomea, n. sp. 



Dioicous, fragrant, smooth, pale olive-green to cinnamon brown, 

 irregularly bi'anched, leaves closely imbricated, spreading at right 

 angles with the stem, kidney-shaped, obtuse, entire, lobule 

 large, galeate, pendulous, base tumid, apex acutely beaked, 

 stylus minute, subulate ; underleaves approximate, nearly plane, 

 broadly rotund or roundish, emarginate, sinus shallow, obtuse ; 

 bracts ovate or cultrate, acute, upper margin entire, lower sub- 

 dentate, lobule reflexed, evolute, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 

 dentato-ciliate, bracteole sub-oblong quadrate, or Ungulate, bifid, 

 segments acute, . margin distantly dentate-laciniate ; perianth 

 obovate, trigonous. 



Dioicous, resembling F. deplanata, Mitt., fronds 2' to 3' in 

 diameter, corticolor, growing in soft, depressed, imbricated tufts, 

 odour fragrant, violaceous, smooth, pale olive-green to cinnamon 

 brown, irregularly branched, fastigiate, convex when dry^ 2- mm. 

 wide. Stems slender, flexuose. Leaves closely imbricated, spreading 

 at right angles with the stem which they cross, broadly cordate or 

 kidney-shaped, obtuse, entire, texture thin sub-translucent, slightly 

 polished, cells smallish roundish tilled with numerous oil corpuscles, 

 walls irregular, trigones large ; lobule large, galeate, pendulous, 

 base tumid and cucullate, apex acutely beaked not spined, mouth 



Note. — Those marked with an asterisk, new to New South Wales. 



