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cellules. Perianth sub - inflated, narrow - oblong, triangular 

 angles sharpish, apex rounded, mucronate, mucro obtuse, lips 

 entire. Calyptra broadly clavate, green ; seta white, nodding, 

 sub-rugulose ; valves broadly oval, obtuse, spreading, recurved, 

 brown with a rather large white circular base ; elaters nume- 

 rous, reddish, stout, truncate, the tip of the hollow tube con- 

 taining the elater closed and capitate by the elater, and broader 

 than the tube. 



Hab. On trees, in low wet woods near Norsewood, County 

 of Waipawa; 1886: W.C. 



Obs. A species having some slight affinity with F. spinifera. 

 Hook. fil. et Tayl., in its general appearance ; but differing m 

 leaves and lobules, in its more sharply-angled perianth with 

 entire involucral leaves, iu its scabrid seta, and in its peculiar 

 capitate elaters. 



6. F. inrplexicaulis, sp. noT. 



Plant minute, much implexed and compact in small dark- 

 coloured masses. Stems |-1 inch long, 2-pinnate, flexuous, 

 black, wiry. Leaves alternate, oblong-orbicular, (sometimes 

 broadly ovate and sub-acute on the branches,) dimidiate, mar- 

 gins entire, sub-vertical and recurved on the main stem, convex 

 and very close-set yet scarcely imbricate on the branches, 

 brownish-green, the young leaves and branchlets bright-green ; 

 lobule large, set close to stem, prominent, hooded, the arch 

 high, tip acute but not acuminate nor decurved, and scarcely 

 produced beyond margin of leaf, brown-green ; involucral leaves 

 snb-obovate-obloug, entire; cells small, sub-orbicular with 

 minute interstitial cellules. Stipule small, convex, sub -orbicular, 

 broader than long with apex produced, narrowly margined, 

 bifid ; sinus large and deep, and wide at tips. Perianth oblong- 

 obovate, sub-inflated, rugulose, plaited above, tip produced and 

 obtuse with a mucro, mouth shortly fimbriate ; calyptra turbi- 

 nate ; spores large, sub-angular, light-brown. 



Hab. On pendent branches of living trees, forming small 

 scattered much implexed dark clusters ; edges of forests near 

 Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1886 : W.C. 



Obs. This species in its general appearance resembles 

 F. minutissima (supra), although it differs widely in the habit 

 of growth, as well as in several important characters {vide 

 descript,). 



Genus 25. Noteroclada, Taylor. 



1. N. lonciiiiscula, sp. nov. 



Plant pale yellowish-brown, prostrate, creeping, adhering on 

 ventral surface by numerous fine pale rootlets. Stems 3-4 

 inches long, -^ inch wide (mcluding leaves), simple below, few- 



