60 Transactions. — Botany. 



tip coloured browu. Cells large, clear, sub-orbicular with a 

 central bead, and minute cells m the angles. 



Hab. Among other Hejmticce and low mosses, on the 

 ground, sides of Mount Tongariro, County of East TaujDO ; 

 1887 : Mr. H. Hill. 



5. C. marijinata, sp. nov. 



Plant pale, prostrate, creeping, 2in. long, stems 1^ lines 

 wide, simple, and forked at tips. Leaves very membranous, 

 sub-opposite, close, half imbricated, margined, sub-rotund- 

 quadrate above on stem, deltoid, below their bases very broad ; 

 tips broad, emarginate and obtuse, wavy, recurved, decurrent 

 and slightly diagonal on dorsal surface of stems, with their 

 extreme ends overpassing. Cells compact, orbicular, dotted 

 each with 2-5 spots, walls narrow but double with minute 

 interstitial cellules. Stipules bifid, margins uneven ; lobes 

 long, acuminate, liexuous, with two long laciniate fiexuous 

 teeth on each outside near base ; connate with leaf, largely 

 amplexicaul. Sinus very large, sub-acute, spreading, witla 

 sometimes a tooth, and many small white rootlets from base. 



Hah. On ground, among mosses, wet w^oods, Taupo. 



§ 3. Leaves opposite or alternate, stij)ule free. 



6. C. vcniiHtnla, sp. nov. 



Plant small, delicate, horizontal, creeping, lin.-2in. long, 

 scarcely 1 line broad, simple, and slightly branched near 

 base ; stems dark-coloured, wiry, rooting under each stipule. 

 Leaves darkish, clear, pinnate, sub-opposite, sub-quadrate, 

 adnate, detached not imbricate, the apex broadly rounded 

 with three equidistant spiny ciliae, which are two-fifths length 

 of lamina, straight and celled. Cells large, sub-orbicular, 

 clear. Stipule small, free, of three spreading rays, celled. 

 Fruit not seen. 



Hah. Among mosses, kc, on ground, sides of Mount Tonga- 

 riro, East Taupo ; 1887 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Ohs. An elegant little and extremely delicate species ; its 

 manner of growth serving to show to advantage its rather 

 peculiar and striking segments, with their long, straight, out- 

 standing cilite. Not having met with it in a fruiting state, it 

 is provisionally placed under this genus, as it may prove to be 

 a Lopliocolea ; but, from its appearance and its rooting under 

 the stipules, I believe it to be a Chiloscyjjhns. I only obtained 

 a few specimens, laboriously picked out from other small 

 cryptogams, and cleaned from pumice-dust. 



7. C. insula, sp. nov. 



Plant small, gregarious, erect, iin. high, mostly simple, 

 sometimes one-branched, broadest at top, tips recurved ; 2-3 



