1046 HEPATICiE COLLECTED BY MR. T. WHITELEGGE IN N. S. WALES^ 



mm. (-05 X -02, -04 x -02, -03 x -02, -025 x -025) ; underleaves 

 •175 mm. high x •2 mm. broad, seg. -075 mm., -15 mm. x -175, seg. 

 •075, -15 X -175, seg. ^075 ; perigonial leaf -2 mm. long x 15 mm. 

 broad; perigonial underleaf •15 mm. long x ^075 mm. broad; 

 antheridia ^075 mm. x "05 mm. 



Bab. — On wet rocks, Botany Bay, June, 1885, ^. 



Obs. — This pretty little species appears distinct from any 

 described form. In the distant leaves and their shape it bears a 

 superficial resemblance to Lepidozia jjrocera, Mitt., which how- 

 ever is a much more robust species and in which the branches are 

 secund and all seem to be capillary at the apex, with cells of stem 

 20 across, whilst this has only 7 or 8. 



The leaves also are more erect and 4 to 5 times larger than the 

 underleaves. 



(In some respects our species resembles L. capilligera, Ldbg., 

 but that is not half the size, with irregular ramification and patent 

 filiform branches, loosely imbricated leaves semi-vertical and like 

 the stipules, obovate-subquadrate, divided half-way into four diva- 

 ricate subulate segments — Lehm. Pug., pi. IV., pp. 40-41. A consi- 

 derable amount of confusion has grown about L. capilligera; it 

 appears to be identical with the specimens named by Taylor L. quad- 

 rifida, which were collected at Auckland Island, and St. Patrick's 

 Bay, Tasmania, by Dr. J. D. Hooker, 1847, and will be found under 

 that name at Kew. The error has been worse confounded by 

 Mitten, in Fl. Nov. Zeland. et Tasm., describing the large form of 

 L. capillaris, which I have named L. verticillala , as L. capilligera, 

 L. et L.) B. C. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXVII. 



Fig. 1. Plants nat. size. 2. Portion of stem showing <? catkin x 31. 3- 

 4. Leaves X 85. 5. Portion of leaf x 290. 6. Underleaf with 

 portion of stem x 85. 7-9. Underleaves x 85. 10. Perigonial 

 leaf X 85. 11. Perigonial underleaf x 85. 12. Antheridium x 85. 



