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4. A. epibrya, sp. no v. 



Plant thickisk, brittle, softisk, ligkt-green, mostly composed 

 of single irregular- skaped sub-erect fronds, that are sometimes 

 forked aud slightly brancked or lobed, and sometimes over- 

 lapping, 1-1| iuckes long, 3-4 lines wide, kroken kelow, arising 

 from a decaying kase. Fronds sub-solitary, linear-oblong, 

 expanded and rounded at tips, waved, rumpled, and incurved, 

 margins entire, tkin, slightly and irregularly crenulate, usually 

 more so at tips ; semi-transparent wken fresk, largely so wken 

 dried, witk skort, yellow, silky kyaline rootlets below, by wkick 

 it adkeres strongly to its supporting moss ; cells okscure. 

 Calyptra stout, erect, 3^ lines long, green, bristly and rougk, witk 

 skort patent kairs. 



Hab. Epipkytical on Hypnum aciculare, dry skaded decli- 

 vities, Fagus forests near Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 

 1883-85 : W.C. 



Obs. A peculiar species, confined (as far as I kave okserved) 

 to tkis one species of large, erect and very dry moss, wkick it 

 sometimes kills ; its fronds are of vigorous growtk, but are 

 almost invariably rotten at tkeir bases. In its strange kakitat 

 (for a plant of tkis genus tkat deligkts in low, wet and skaded 

 localities,) it is plentiful, tkougk always scattered, froni its so 

 early decaying at kase. It is allied to A. biflora, Col.,* wkick 

 species is also epipkytical on living moss (Hooker ia), kut tkat 

 moss is only found in wet, dark skaded locakties, and is also 

 sub-succulent. 



5. A. marginata, sp. nov. 



Plant small ; main stems creeping, prostrate, dark red- 

 brown ; branckes generally simple, sometimes forked, erect, 

 densely tufted, 3-4 lines kigk, linear, suk-clavate, occasionally 

 somewkat palmate, margined ; margins entire, sometimes (kut 

 rarely) slightly denticulate and suk-lobed, tips emarginate ; 

 succulent, sub-rigid ; green. Cells large, sub -orbicular, sparsely 

 beaded, tkose of margin small and very regular. Fruit single at 

 kase of lobe below. Calyptra cylindrical, erect, 1| lines long, 

 sparingly tubercled below, more so above, and crowned witk a 

 boss of tubercles ; tubercles red, obtuse, cellular. Capsule 

 oblong, dark-blue. 



Hab. On rotten logs in low wet woods, forming close and 

 large patckes ; forests near Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 

 1885: W.C. 



6. A. nitida, sp. nov. 



Plant minute, creeping, imbricate, reclinate, densely tufted, 

 crisp and brittle, of irregular growth ; yellowish- white. Base 

 stems, or main branch of frond, broad, flat, strongly adhering, 



* Vide " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xvii., p. 262. 



