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dark and straight lines of "nerves," bear a close resemblance 

 to the back of a gloved hand, It is a beautiful little plant, 

 having a strong resemblance, in habit, form, and texture to the 

 only other (known) species, F. clandestine!, Mitt. ; but, from the 

 absence of fruit, it is somewhat doubtful as to genus. At pre- 

 sent the plant is scarce, only two specimens having been 

 detected ; from its minuteness, however, it is easily overlooked. 



Genus 13. Lepidozia, Nees. 



1. L. concinna, sp. nov. 



Plant largely and loosely tufted, branched, procumbent, 

 overlapping, pale-green, 2-3-pinnate ; branches 1-2 inches 

 long, 4-5 lines wide, sub-oblong-lanceolate ; branchlets 2-2|- 

 lines long, widely apart, alternate, decurved, the shorter ones 

 broad and rounded, and the longer ones capillary at tips. 

 Leaves many, closely set and sub-imbricate on branchlets, more 

 distant on main stems, patent, slightly incurved, sub-quadrate, 

 3-4-fid ; cells strongly defined and numerous, large in the 

 centre at base of leaf. Stipules small, quadrate, 4-cleft to 

 middle, patent ; segments subulate, acute, spreading, sinus wide, 

 round at base ; cells of segments in 3-4 rows, very minute, dis- 

 tinct, regular. 



Hab. On living trees, forming thick and large patches ; 

 wet forests near Norsewood, County of Waipawa, 1885 : W.C. 



Obs. An elegant species, allied to two of the known New 

 Zealand ones, L. microphylla, and L. pendulina, Lind. ; also to 

 the following one, L. cancellata, mini ; and also to L. chorduli- 

 fera, Tayl., a species of the Chonos Archipelago. The leaves in 

 shape and in cell-areolas are somewhat like those of L. procera, 

 Mitt., a Tasmanian species, but the plant is widely different. 



2. L. cancellata, sp. nov. 



Plant largely and loosely tufted, of a pleasing green ; 

 branches 1^ inches long, 3 lines broad, linear-lanceolate, rarely 

 branched at base, sub-procumbent, loosely overlapping, bi-pin- 

 nate ; branchlets numerous, alternate, rather closely set, short, 

 1-1$ lines long, very rarely again branched, tips sometimes 

 capillary, and then exceedingly fine and reddish. Leaves large, 

 sub-oblong-quadrate, 4-fid, cancellate, very close, incurved (pre- 

 senting a sub-verticillate appearance), those on the main stem 

 more distant and very large ; cells large ; segments very long, 

 curved and spreading, subulate, acute, each with a single row of 

 cells ; sinus large, round. Stipules similar but smaller, distant, 

 patent. 



Hab. On trees and logs, forming large and thick patches ; 

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



Obs. A species very near the preceding (L. concinna, mihi), 

 but differing in its more slender and simple branches ; in its 





