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glistening, haviug a varnished appearance ; branches very short, 

 broad, irregular, sub-flabellate, laciniate and deeply lobed ; lobes 

 about 1 line long, sub-erect, secund, linear, entire, sometimes 

 slightly sub-denticulate, spreading ; tips obtuse. Cells rather 

 large, oblong, numerously beaded. Fruit-stalk lateral at sinus 

 of lobes, single, sometimes 2-4 on a branchlet ; involucral scales 

 2-4, small, broad, acute and spreading. Calyptra white, slender, 

 1 line long, very sparsely tubercled throughout ; tubercles very 

 fine almost hairs, white. Capsule very narrow, linear-oblong, 

 slender. 



Hub. In low wet woods near Norsewood, County of Wai- 

 pawa; 1885: W.C. On rotten logs forming large yellow 

 patches, adhering very strongly as if gummed on ; difficult to 

 separate even when long steeped in water. 



Obs. A species similar to the preceding, A. maryinata, but 

 differing in colour, habit of growth, not being margined, cells 

 oblong and confused ; calyptra white, more slender, and not 

 coarsely and red tubercled ; and the main stems broad, flat, 

 and glassy. 



7. A. punctata, sp. nov. 



Frond small, greenish-white, thickish, sub-erect, 3-6 lines 

 high, effuse, usually somewhat broadly palmate, spreading, 

 much branched and lobed ; branches very short, sub-pinnatifid 

 or lobed, retuse, irregular ; cells oblong, large. Calyptra erect, 

 1 line long, cylindrical, sub-clavate, contracted at mouth, white, 

 smooth, cellular, sub-transparent ; cells linear-oblong, minutely 

 beaded with round dark dots. Fruit-stalk slender, £ inch long, 

 hyaline, traiisversely septate. Capsule rather small, oblong, 

 dark purple-brown, finely striate, closely and minutely trans- 

 versely barred or dotted with black, valves obtuse, margined ; 

 elaters long, bi- spiral with acute tips ; spores circular. 



Hab. Among other Hepatica on rotten logs, forming thick 

 little patches, wet woods near Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 

 1885: W.C. 



Genus 39. Anthoceros, Micheli. 



1. A. granulata, sp. nov. 



Plant prostrate, spreading in effuse patches, 5-6 inches long, 

 closely adhering by its numerous fine hair-like rootlets, densely 

 imbricate, light-green, and covered with masses of fine sparkling 

 granules, as if frosted (or like soredia in some species of 

 Parmelia) ; lobes at first very small and irregular, large and 

 concave in age, with rounded crenulate margins. Calyptra 

 conical, thick and sub-globose at base, and slightly tubercled ; 

 peduncle \ - f inch long, erect, green ; capsule \ inch long, 

 dehiscing to base at one side only, brown ; valves flexuous, broad 

 and flat ; columella very slender. 



