7^ Transactions. — Botany. 



appearance, somewhat resembling a very short-stemmed, 

 small, and plain tobacco-pipe. 



2. F. intermixta, sp. nov. 



A minute prostrate species; stems stontish, about iin. 

 long and ^\jin. wide, branched ; branches 1-2 lines long. Leaves 

 brownish, distant below, sub-imbricate at tips of branchlets, 

 oblate-orbicular, sub-cordate at base, margins slightly uneven; 

 lobule large for plant, dark-coloured, inflated, galeate, upright, 

 tip truncate v^ith a bell-mouth rim produced beyond margin of 

 leaf. Stipules shortly bifid, with two acute teeth on each side. 

 Cells sub-quadrilateral, regular, clear. 



Hab. On rotten logs among other and larger Hepaticcp, 

 particularly Gottschea ; low wet woods near Dannevirke, 

 County of Waipawa ; 1888 : W. C. 



Obs. A peculiar little species, having affinity with F. rcptans, 

 Mitt., F. fugax, Hook. f. and Tayl., and F. p)entapLcura, 

 Hook. f. and Tayl., in the shape of its leaves and lobule. 

 Only a few specimens were obtained ; probably overlooked 

 from its very nn'nute size and low, creeping, hiding habit. 

 Fruiting specimens not seen. 



3. F. platypliylla, sp. nov. 



Plant rather large (?) — only a single branch seen ; l^in. long, 

 1 line wide, bipinnate, dark-brown, flat; l:)ranchlets distant, 

 spreading at right angles. Leaves hilarious, much imbricate, 

 orbicular, cordate, clasping, slightly overlapping at base, 

 margins minutely uneven, particularly at base ; lobule large, 

 flat, depending, semi-circular-ovate, dimidiate ; base free, 

 broad, much arched ; tip slender, acute, recurved, slightly 

 produced. Stipule broadly reniform or sub-reniform-cordate, 

 the sinus very small, broad, obtuse, margins slightly uneven, 

 with a small oblong laciniate stipella adpressed at base, and a 

 tuft of small spreading fibres below it. Cells small, orbicular, 

 with very minute interstitial cellules. 



Hah. Among mosses, &c., woods, Dannevirke, Couutv of 

 Waipawa; 1888: W. C. 



Obs. This species strongly resembles Madotlieca stangeri, 

 Gottsche (itself a variable plant), especially when living (damp) 

 and merely looking at its dorsal side ; hence I suppose it to 

 have been overlooked or passed by. 



4. F. diffusa, sp. nov. 



Plant large, dark-green, 2in.-3in. (or more) long, much 

 branched, 3-pinnate, rather rigid, implexed. Leaves on the 

 main stem, distant, reniform, clasping : on the branches, sub- 

 imbricate, broadly ovate, dimidiate, sub-falcate, tips very 

 obtuse and rounded, their cells small, obscure, sub-rhomboidal 

 with black bead-like central points : on the young branchlets, 



