CoLENSO.- — Oil Nen- Crifptogamic Plants. 457 



usually solitary, sometimes two toi^'ether. Involucre minute^ 

 very shallow, irregularly and distantly toothed ; teeth acute. 

 Calyptra 1| lines long (nearly as high as frond), white, gla- 

 brous, cylindrical, erect, obtuse ; tip urceolate. Seta 3 lines 

 long, white, hyaline, glossy. Capsule narrow-oblong, brown ; 

 valves narrow-linear, striate, sub-acute; elaters brown, form- 

 ing large pencilled masses at tips. 



Hab. On very rotten wet logs, low woods south of Danne- 

 virke, County of Waipawa ; 18(S9 : W. C. 



Obs. A curious minute species, forming extensive patches 

 completely covering the surface of log, and somewhat re- 

 sembling coarse green plush. It is allied to ,1. inuscoides, 

 Col. ("Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xviii., p, 251), but is very dis- 

 tinct. 



2. A. poljpnorpJia, sp. nov. 



Plant of densely-coespitose growth, firm, somewhat brittle, 

 bright emerald-green ; roots brownish, thickish, succulent, 

 irregular, spreading ; fronds erect, of nearly uniform height 

 in appearance, 6-9 lines high, ^ line to 2 rarely 3 (usually 1^) 

 lines wide, of various shapes and sizes, simple narrow-linear 

 cuneate and oblong-obovate, two-branched from base, sub- 

 palniate and flabelliform with 3-5 branchlets ; branchlets irre- 

 gular and spreading, subpinnatifid, margins distantly and 

 slightly incised, sinuate, sub-crenately knobbed and notched, 

 tips incurved, always broader and crenulate. Cells numerous, 

 small, oblong-lanceolate, each having a free central oblong 

 dot. Fruit usually single at base of frond, sometimes 2, rarely 

 3-4, together, yet, in one specimen, 7 near each other. In- 

 volucre short, pubescent, margin sharply sub-serrulate. Calyp- 

 tra cylindrical, erect, 2 lines long, white minutely speckled, 

 puberulent, the tips slightly produced and ragged ; hairs light 

 reddish-brown. Seta 9-12 lines long, slender, curved, shining, 

 hyaline, striate, multi-septate and closely so at top. Cap- 

 sule narrow-oblong ; valves linear-oblong, subacute and sub- 

 mucronulate, dark-brown, darker at tip and at base, margined, 

 thickly striate, with dark linear dots in regular lines between 

 striffi. Elaters closely twisted, tips very acuminate, acute. 



Hab. On rotten logs, low wet woods south of Dannevirke, 

 with preceding species (^4. _/;(?77J/;6///a), but foi'ming separate 

 patches ; 1889 : W. C. 



Obs. This plant forms large spreading patches, very closely 

 growing like a short moss, covering the whole surface of the 

 log. It changes its colour soon after removal, even when kept 

 alive in water. It has intermixed with it two minute species of 

 sub-erect Lepidozice, which are always lower than the Aneura, 

 and are not found without breaking it up — L. rctrnsa, and 

 L. occulta, Col. [siipra). 



