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Obs. A species nearly allied to the preceding, P. exilis, 

 milii ; and also to P. distinctifolia, Lind., a West Indian and 

 South American species, (and also said by Liudenberg* 

 to have been " found in Dusky Bay, New Zealand, Herb. 

 Hook." ; but it is not included by Sir J. D. Hooker in the 

 "Flora N.Z.," nor the "Handbook Flora N.Z." ; hence, I 

 suppose, some slight error in the Dusky Bay hah., possibly an 

 error for Staten Land, near Cape Horn). This species differs 

 from P. exilis in its leaves being less toothed with rounded 

 apices, and without the oblique and decurrent ridge, so striking 

 in the leaves of that plant, and also in their widely different 

 areolation : the spikes, moreover, of the male plant of this 

 species are much smaller, with only 2 teeth to their sub-erect 

 (not recurved) scales. This species is also shorter and much 

 more slender and filiform, and of a different habit of growth. 



Genus 7. Gottschea, Nees. 

 * Leaves stipulate. 

 1. G. ciliistipula, STp.noY. 



Plant gregarious, procumbent, imbricate in growth, creeping, 

 soft, of a pleasing bright-green. Stems 1 inch long, 3-4 lines 

 wide, simple, sometimes 1-2-3 short branches near top, flat, 

 leafy throughout, with numerous dark-red rootlets below. Leaves 

 very thin, all margins finely and closely serrulate ; ventral lobe 

 long, narrow, sub-acute, much finely plaited, the lower basal 

 margin ciliate ; dorsal lobe much shorter, broadly ovate, 

 dimidiate, largely-arched, tip acute. Stipule quadrate, ^^ inch 

 wide, quadrifid ; lobes long, narrow, siniiate, sub-acute, largely 

 ciliate ; ciliae long, subulate, acute, flexuous, 5-9-jointod, very 

 glossy ; sinuses large, rouud, broad and clear, plaited or ridged 

 longitudinally downwards from base of each sinus, the ridges 

 ciliate. Cells large, of various shapes and sizes — hexagonal, 

 oblong, and quadrate. On the stem, in the axils between the 

 two lobes, are 2-3 minute narrow highly-cellular ciliated 

 phyllodia, their cilia) also long-jointed and flexuous. 



l:!ab. Li large patches on rotten logs and trunks of trees, in 

 a deep dark wood near Norsewood, County of Waipawa; 1886 : 

 W.C. 



Obs. A species having affinity with G. Icrte-virens, G. nitida, 

 and G. triclwtoma, Col.,f but differing from them all in its 

 beautifully plaited and cut stipules, ciliated with long, wavy, 

 glossy ciliae, as well as in other characters. 



2. G. compacta, sp. nov. 



Plant procumbent, obovate, tapering, light-green, 1-2 inches 

 long, 8 lines wide at top ; stems flat, branched, stout, rooting, 



♦"Species Hepaticainm " : fasciculus i., Plagiochila ; appendix, p. 166. 

 f "Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol, xviii., pp. 238, 240. 



