54 Transactluna. — Botany. 



Obs. A species near to " G. covipacta,"-'' Col. (" Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst.," vol. xix., p. 285), bat differing in its smaller size, in its 

 different habit of growth, in its lobes and stipules being less 

 serrate and laciniate, and in the unique formation of its large 

 cells. 



2. G. longiciliata, sp. nov. 



Plant gregarious, small, flat, spreading, broadly obovate, 

 liu. long, 4 lines wide at top, mostly simple, sometunes with 

 two short opposite branches near apex. Stem stout, dark- 

 coloured, leafy to base ; rootlets numerous, wiry, dark-purple. 

 Leaves pale-green, much and closely imbricate, translucid ; 

 ventral lobe ^in. long, ovate, obtuse, entire, finely serrulate ; 

 dorsal lobe short, two-fifths length of ventral, tip truncate,, 

 wide, anterior margin ciliate, not produced beyond ventral ; 

 the posterior margin oblique and much within that of ventral, 

 with a strong plait running from the lower angle of apex to- 

 the margin of ventral. Cells large, orbicular, double-walled, 

 with minute cellules in their angles. Stipule large, sub-orbicu- 

 lar (in outline), 1^ lines diameter, 4-fid, sinuses very broad, 

 the two inner segments largest, much lacinio-ciliate ; cilige 

 very long, flexuous, brownish-olive coloured, 10-celled, 

 branched, their bases 2-celled laterally within cilia." ; cells 

 oblong, narrow. 



Hah. On the ground, low damp woods, banks of river, 

 south of Dannevirke, County of Waipawa ; 18S8 : W. C. 



3. G. longiscta, sp. nov. 



Plant gregarious, procumbent, ^in.-lin. long, broadly tri- 

 angular (in outline), tip acute, pinnately branched at base ; 

 branches short, spreading. Stems stout, sub-succulent, leafy 

 to base, thickly and coarsely matted below with dark-red 

 rootlets. Leaves yellow-green, closely imbricated above, dis- 

 tant and smaller below, all margins laciniate-serrate, laciniae 

 flexuous ; ventral lobe 3 lines long, triangular-ovate, strongly 

 plaited at lateral junction of dorsal lobe, the plait laciniate ; 

 dorsal lobe much smaller, and within both margins of ventral, 

 tip oblique, acute, base rounded, sub-dimidia,te-cordate ; peri- 

 cha3tial leaves larger and broader, much and irregularly laci- 

 niate. Fruit-stalk l-|in. long, slender, flexuous ; capsule red- 

 brown, linear-oblong, 2^ lines long; valves 2 lines long. 



* Here please observe and correct an error — or, rather, two errors — in 

 vol. xix., " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," pp. 284, 285, where two new species of 

 Gottschea described by me are both specifically named " comiMcta." And 

 what makes it still worse is the fact that in vo . xvi., p. 349 (same work) 

 is another new species of GottscJiea also named " coiupacta." How that 

 error occurred in vol. xix. I do not know, but the sj^ecies described on p. 284 

 should have been specifically named laciniosa, and that on p. 285 gre- 

 (/aria, which names please substitute for those thus erroneously given. 



