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branchlets, pale-brownish. Lobule darker-brown, free, sub- 

 rotund, inflated, patent from stem and projecting below leaf, 

 with a minute acute beak at centre of posterior margin. Cells 

 small, clear, of various shapes, sub-quadi-ilateral and irregularly 

 angular, walls thick and double with minute cellules in them. 

 Stipules sub-reniform-orbicular, bifid; sinus linear, rather 

 narrow, 2-4 coarse teeth in margins. 



Hab. Among Hcpaticcs. (spns.), woods near Danuevirke,. 

 County of Waipawa; 1888 : W. C. 



8. F. curvirostris, sp. nov. 



Plant small ; stems stoutish, flattish, lin. long, nearly 1 

 line w'ide, branched ; branches alternate, rather long, sub- 

 pellucid. Leaves broadly elliptic, reddish tinged ; margins 

 shghtly uneven ; tips obtuse and sub-acute. Cells clear, orbi- 

 cular, with very minute interstitial cellules. Lobule large, 

 purplish, galeate, arch much produced, turgid, shining ; tip 

 long acuminate, recurved, passing beyond both margin of 

 its own and of the next leaf, slightly sub-imbricate. Stipule 

 large, sub-orbicular, bifid, laciniate. 



Hah. Woods near Danuevirke, County of Waipawa ; 1888 : 

 W. C. 



9. F. pohjclada, sp. nov. 



Plant forming close matted patches of a few^ inches each 

 way. Stems 2in.-3in. long, much branched, with numerous 

 very short patent lateral branchlets. Leaves sub-oblong- 

 orbicular or broadly transverse oblong, one end broader than 

 the other, olive-green (young ones and branchlets bright-green), 

 obscure, margined ; margins purple and minutely scored or 

 marked with straight transverse lines ; lobule small, galeate, 

 tip acute, not extending beyond margin of leaf. Cells indis- 

 tinct, exceedingly minute and irregular, punctulate, larger 

 clear and broadly oblong in centre at junction with stem. 

 Stipules narrow hippocrepiform, the sinus deep, broad at 

 margin, with the two angles acute. Perianth terminal on 

 short lateral branchlets, green, oblong, tuberculate, keeled 

 sharply on one side, with two smaller carinula3 at the base, 

 the other side flattish ; tip refuse and mucronate. Capsule 

 enclosed, globular, large. Involucral leaves large, bifid, 

 acute. 



Hah. On indurated clayey boulders, Whangawehi, north 

 side of Table Cape ; 1887 : Mr. A. Hamilton. 



Ohs. A species very near to F. echinclla, Col., but differing 

 in its peculiar habit of growth with short starry lateral 

 branchlets — its dimidiate margined leaves with widely dif- 

 ferent cells — its perianth of a different shape, with straight 

 sides, and more coarsely tuberculate — and its bifid involucral 

 leaves. 



