Colenso.— On New Species of Hepaticae. 341 



Akt._ XLV. — Memorandum of a few New Species of Hepa- 

 ticaa lately detected in the Seventy-mile Bush District; as 

 kindly determined by Dr. F. Stephani, of Berlin. 



By W. Colenso, F.E.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c 



[Read before the Haivhe's Bay Philosophical Institute, 28th November, 



1892.] 



In forwarding to Kew the Fungi mentioned in the preceding 

 paper, I also sent a lot of Hepaticce that I had collected at 

 various times and seasons with them. These were put by the 

 Director at Kew into Dr. Stephani's hands for examination 

 and determination, as on a former occasion;"" and I have 

 recently received from Kew a list of them (but without de- 

 scription), and also a long enumeration of many others sent 

 with them that have been already described in the "Hand- 

 book of the New Zealand Flora," in several volumes of the 

 Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, and also in some 

 modern European works. 



The species really new to science are only four, while five 

 others that were known have now been found in New Zea- 

 land ; there were also a few others that were barren or too 

 imperfect to be named, and many that (according to Dr. 

 Stephani) were very fine and interesting. 



Moreover, Dr. Stephani's remarks (of several species) — 

 "There have been two forms sent of very different appear- 

 ance, the normal one growing in places exposed to sunlight, 

 stout and tough very dark, in a dry state almost black and 

 horny, lobules large ; while a common variety growing in 

 dark forests is flaccid quite green, lobules small," &c. — are 

 worthy of being copied here. 



I. Species novce : — 



Symphyogyna subpetiolata. 

 Aneura papulosa. 

 Anthoceros arachnoideus. 

 Lophocolea erectifolia. 



II. Species already known, but hitherto not from New 

 Zealand : — 



Metzgeria crassicostata, St. 

 Lepidozia quadrifida, Ldbg. 

 Bazzania mittenii, St. 

 Balantiopsis diplophylla, Mitt. 

 Porella stangeri, L. et G. 



* See Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxiv., p. 398. 



