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Genus 5. Lophocolea, Nees. 



1. L. suhmuricata, sp. nov. 



Plant minute, creeping, simple, lin. long, o^yin. wide, pale 

 greenish-white, having a rough sub-muricated appearance ; 

 pinnatifid, lobes cut nearly to base, close but not imbricate, 

 adnate, sub-trapeziform, broadest at base, tip truncate and 

 sub-trifid, spiny ciliate at apex and on anterior margin ; pos- 

 terior margin entire and largely oblique ; cells minute, circu- 

 lar, obscure, with a few scattered clear ones ; ciliae close, 

 irregular, straight and branched, the sinuses very broad and 

 rounded at bases. Stipules mi)mte, capillary, forked, each 

 ray compound of two or more branches. 



Hah. On the ground among other and larger Hepat'ica, 

 damp low forests, Dannevirke, County of Waipawa ; 1888 : 

 W. C. 



Obs. This is a very peculiar-looking plant, differing widely 

 from other Hepaticce I have seen : its almost jagged leaves 

 a,nd compoiind or branched spiny ciliaa give it a unique ap- 

 pearance. From not finding it m a fruiting state it is only 

 provisionally placed under this genus, Lophocolea, as it may 

 prove to be a Leioscyphus or a Chiloscyphus. 



Genus 7. Gottschea, Nees. 



■■'■ Leaves stipulate. 

 1. G. guttata, sp. nov. 



Plant small, gregarious, sub-procumbent, broadly obovate, 

 -fin. -lin. long, 5 lines wide at top, simple, sometimes shortly 

 branched below, leafy from base ; rootlets numerous, very 

 stout, wiry, dark-purple. Leaves close, imbricate ; ventral 

 lobe narrow ovate, irregularly laciniate-serrate, tip sub-acute ; 

 dorsal lobe extending two-thirds of leaf, tip truncate, the 

 anterior base largely rounded and produced beyond leaf, the 

 margin uneven with small and distant denticulations ; the 

 posterior margin nearly straight, and not near margin of ven- 

 tral lobe, with a straight plait running from the lower corner 

 of the tip to the margin of ventral lobe. Stipules large, sub- 

 orbicular (in outline), narrowest at base, bilobed, each lobe 

 truncate and laciniate, usually three laciniae on each side and 

 three at top ; lacini^ curved, stout, 6-7 cells wide at bases, 

 their tips acute ; sinus deep, sub-cuneate. Cells very large, 

 orbicular-elliptic, double-walled and guttulate, having a very 

 peculiar and rich appearance, as if each cell were separately 

 embossed. 



Hah. Among mosses on decaying logs, low woods, south 

 of Dannevirke, County of Waipawa ; 1888 : W. C. 



