400 Transactions. — Botany. 



(specimens of them being among those sent to him, and in- 

 cluded in his hst), I also give them here — viz., — 



Gottschea guttata. 

 G. margin at a. 

 G. heterodonta. 

 G. squarrosa. 

 G. ramulosa. 



Plagiochila subfasciculata. 

 Lepidozia concinna. 

 Symphyogyna connivens. 

 S. brevicaulis. 

 S. flavovirens. 

 Mastigobryum nitens. 

 M. elegans. 



Chiloscyphus vulcanicus. 

 C. lingulatus. 

 C. ammophilus. 

 Madotheca amcena. 

 Aneura marginata. 

 A. polymorpha. 

 A. perpusilla. 

 Isotachis montana. 

 Anthoceros pellucidus. - 



There were also very many others, specimens of HeiMticcs 

 already known to science, and described by Sir J. D. Hooker 

 in his "Flora NovaB-Zealandiae " and "Handbook of New 

 Zealand Mora ; " most of them (and, indeed, all in the list) 

 being often repeated and numerous, having been collected in 

 several years and at different seasons, and from various 

 habitats : besides others (probably species novce) that were 

 sterile or imperfect. The number of separate packets of 

 HeiMticcB received by Mr. Stephaui amounted to 1,027. 



Art. XXXVIII. — Plain and Practical Thoughts and Notes on 



New Zealand Botany. 



By W. CoLENSO, F.E.S., F.L.S., &c. 

 [Read heforc the Haiohc's Bay Philosophical Institute, 15th June, 1891.] 



Class III. CEYPTOGAMIA. 



Order VI. HEPATiciE. 



On this occasion, having been unexpectedly called on by our 

 Honorary Secretary (on my recent return from sojourning in 



