398. Transactions. — Botany. 



II. I again visited its place of growth in September, and 

 was surprised to find not a single frond living. All had died 

 quite down to their roots, and were prostrated and soft ; but 

 fine stout green leafy young fronds 8in.-10in. high were 

 everywhere vigorously shooting. 



III. It is pretty nearly related {prima facie) to P. ptcnc- 

 tatum, Thunb. (P. rugulosum, and P. rugostduvi, of authors), 

 but differs from that fern in many characters, and particu- 

 larly from the drawings of it, with dissections and descriptions, 

 as given in Labill., Flora Nov. Holl., and in Beddome's 

 Ferns of S. India. Our N.Z. P. ininctatum is a much 

 smaller plant, its pinnae and pinnules close and compact, with 

 differently-shaped pinnules and lobes, that are thicker and 

 very viscid (adhering to drying-papers), with its numerous 

 crowded sori situate on middle of veinlet, and has dark-red 

 rough muricated stipes and rhachises with numerous coarse 

 red and patent hairs. A good and peculiar differential 

 character is to be found in this fern (P. amiAum), in its broad 

 and flat pinnules, which are semi- (or constricted-) adnate, 

 with their extreme bases narrowly extending both upwards 

 and downwards on their subrhachises (requiring, however, 

 when dried, a good lens to detect), and also in the very 

 acuminate and narrow tips to its pinnae. 



Art. XXXVII. — A List of New Species of Hepaticse novse- 

 zelandiae, named by F. Stephani, Leipzig. 



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



{Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 12th October, 1891.] 



Last year (1890) I completed the somewhat arduous task I 

 had imposed on myself — viz., the putting-up for Kew the 

 numerous specimens of the smaller Cryptogams {Hepaticce 

 and Fungi) I had discovered during the last few years in our 

 inland forests. They arrived safely at Kew, and the Director, 

 Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, sent the Hepaticce, to Leipzig, to the 

 celebrated cryptogamist, Mr. F. Stephani, for examination 

 and determination. And in February last I received from 

 Mr. Thiselton-Dyer the following list of species novce that had 

 been determined and named''' by Mr. Stephani, and of others 

 already known to science, but now detected here : — 



* Many of these Fungi were determined and named last year by Dr. 

 Cooke, and are already published in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol, xxiii,, p. 391. 



