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to base, sinus sub- orbicular, lobes laciuiate, divergent at base 

 connivent above. 



Hab. On rotten logs, dense wet forests near Norsewood, 

 County of Waipawa ; 1885: W.C. 



Obs. A small species, having some affinity with G. late- 

 virens, mihi (supra), but differing in its leaves and stipules, also 

 in size and colour. 



8. G. pallescens, sp. nov. 



Plant small, scattered, prostrate, simple, and shortly two- 

 branched, broadly obovate, 3-5 lines long, 3 lines broad and 

 much rounded at top, flatfish, stems rather stout, with many 

 pink rootlets below, at and near base. Leaves very pale or 

 yellowish-white, close, compact, spreading, sub-ovate-oblong, 

 acute, sub-laciniate-serrate throughout, overlapping at base ; 

 dorsal lobes similar, but much smaller, tips somewhat truncate 

 and serrulate ; cells orbicular, cell-walls very thick. Stipules 

 very large, sub-quadrate, but broadest at top, bi-lobed (almost 

 quadrifid) ; sinus open, lobes much laciniate and largely divergent 

 above. 



Hab. On rotten logs, among other small Hepatica ; wet 

 shaded woods, Seventy-mile Bush, County of Waipawa ; 1883 : 

 W.C. 



Obs. A species near to G. bicolor, mihi (supra), but differing 

 from it in its larger spreading stipules, and in being much more 

 laciniate, also in colour, form, and habit. 



9. G. marginata, sp. nov. 



Plant prostrate, creeping, simple, sometimes branched below 

 1-1£ inches long, 4 lines wide, broadest at top, green ; stem 

 stout, succulent, with many brown rootlets at base. Leaves 

 close above, distant below, sub-oblong- ovate, rather obtuse, sub- 

 falcate, spreading, laminae with several small plaits or creases, 

 largely serrate at apex, coarsely laciniate at base ; dorsal lobe 

 very broad, rounded, and overlapping below, with the margin 

 entire, or nearly so, truncate and serrate at tip ; cells oblong, 

 large, stipules rather large, sub-obovate-quadrate, bifid to middle, 

 each segment once lobed on the outside and laciniate ; lacinia? 

 few and rather distant, triangular, acute, not capillary nor 

 ciliate, and all many-celled throughout ; cells large ; main 

 sinuses orbicular, with their margins thickened as if doubled or 

 bordered. Capsule (immature) cylindrical, narrow-linear, 3 

 lines long, dark-purple ; fruit-stalk sub-clavate at top, but con- 

 tracted at junction with capsule. 



Hab. On trunks of fern-trees, wet shaded forests near 

 Norsewood, County of Waipawa, 1885 : W.C. 



Obs. A species having close affinity with G. pallescens, mihi 

 (supra). 



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