Colenso. — Description of new Cryptogamic Plants. 255 



Hab. On rotten logs, growing with Anew a crispa (ante), 

 shady bases of cliffs, Eiver Mangatawhainui, near Norsewood, 

 County of Waipawa ; November, 1884 : W.C. 



Obs. Before fruiting the fronds are very soft, and are then 

 easily mistaken for some other allied frondose genus of Hepatica. 



2. A. membranaceus, sp. nov. 



Plant prostrate, spreading in small irregular patches, sub- 

 imbricate, green. Lobes variously shaped, mostly obovate- 

 oblong, 4-8 lines long, sub-pinnatifid ; lobules rounded very 

 much and finely cut (sub-laciniate-fimbriate), very thin, 

 abounding in reticulate cells under a lens. Calyptra conical, 

 rougbish, green below, brownish at tip, 3 lines long; peduncle 

 slender, green, 6-8 lines long ; capsule about £ inch long, very 

 slender, light-brown, diverging at tips ; valves separate to base ; 

 columella very filiform, fiexuous ; spores orbicular, muricated ; 

 elaters fiexuous, bi-spiral. 



Hub. On logs in wet dark woods, near Norsewood, County 

 of Waipawa, growing underneath large Aneura, &c. ; November, 

 1884: W.C. 



Obs. A species remarkable for the smallness of its fronds, 

 and the number of its fruit-stalks, the fine hair-like slenderness 

 of its receptacle, and the light-red colour of its capsule. 



3. A. pusilla, sp. nov. 



Plant very small, densely gregarious in effuse patches of 3-4 

 inches, erect, glabrous. Fronds 3-4 lines high, 2-2£ lines wide 

 at top, broadly cuueate and sub-fan-shaped, lobed, laciniate ; 

 upper margin crenulate and crisped, thickish, succulent, pel- 

 lucid ; apical portion light-green ; pale below, covered with 

 scattered minute green specks, and a few small white rootlets 

 near the base ; cells large. Calyptra 1-2-3 on a frond, rising 

 from the centre, cylindrical, 2 lines long, bulbous at base, 

 smooth, entire at margins ; capsule 3-4 lines long, slender, 

 green ; tips black. Gemmae scattered in substance of frond, in 

 rather large dark coloured elliptic bodies. 



Hab. Among mosses and Hepatica, bases, wet sides of steep 

 clayey cuttings, public roads ; Seventy-mile Bush, County of 

 Waipawa, 1885 : W.C. 



Obs. A species having some affinity with A. muscoides, mihi 

 (" Trans. N.Z Inst.," vol. xvi., p. 361), but smaller, with fewer 

 and very much shorter capsules, etc. 



" Qui quo destinavit vult, unam sequatur viam, non per 

 multas vagetur. — Non ire istud, sed errare est." (Seneca, Epist. 



xlv.) 



