CoLENSo. — Description of new Cryptogamic Planln. 47 



Okder v.— hepatic^. 



Genus 2. Jungermannia, Liuu. 



§ 1. Stipules : leaves entire. 



1. J. consimilis, sp. nov. 



Plant small, procumbent, tips ascending, simple and dicho- 

 tomously forked, lin.-l^in. long, scarcely 1 line wide, leafy 

 throughout, the under side of stem densely clothed with fine 

 rootlets. Leaves pale-green, close, imbricate, erect and con- 

 niving, very regular, triangular-ovate, much apiculate, narrowly 

 margmed ; margins entire but uneven, shghtly decurrent. 

 Stipules 0. Cells numerous, small, orbicular, distinct, ranged 

 in longitudinal lines, larger in centre and at base. 



Hah. Growing half concealed in tufts of moss (Leptostovium 

 inclinans, Br.) on branches of living trees, low woods, south 

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



Obs. A species closely allied to J. monodoii, Hook. f. and 

 Tayl., but differing in size, colour, leaves broader, more largely 

 and sharply apiculate, with their margins uneven, and with 

 smaller and much more numerous cells. 



2. J.frullanioides, sp. nov. 



Plant pleasing green, prostrate, creeping, with numerous 

 short dark rootlets in tufts on the main stem, 2in.-4in. Ion", 

 3-pinnately branched ; branches alternate, numerous, close, 

 spreading, slender, -gLin. wide, very leafy. Leaves sub-opposite, 

 close, imbricate, spreading, flat (concave and recurved when 

 dry), broadly elliptic or sub-rotund, dimidiate, the upper portion 

 finely serrulate, sub-apiculate, tapering to base and rather 

 narrow there with a nerve-like thickening, obliquely set ; the 

 anterior basal portion overlapping stem ; the posterior basal 

 margin excised, slightly decurrent. Stipules 0. Cells very 

 minute, sub-orbicular, regular, compact, very obscure. 



Hab. On branches of living trees, forming small thick 

 patches, woods near Dannevirke, Countv of Waipawa : 1888 • 

 W. C. 



Obs. This is rather a peculiar looking species ; it grows 

 closely intermixed and thickly overrunning itself, having much 

 of the habit and general appearance (at first sight) of some of 

 our small Frullanice. Not having met with it in fruit, I place 

 it under this genus with some doubt. 



Genus 3. Plagiochila, Nees and Montagne. 

 § 2. Stems sparingly branched. 

 1. P. p)ciUesccns, sp. nov. 



Plant pale, slender, weak, drooping, 2iin.-3in. loug^ 

 Jgin. wide, simple and 2-3 branched, leafy throughout ; 



