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PolypocUwn vulgare L. var. serratum Willd. and var. camhri- 

 cum Willd. 34. Flaxley Wood, Hh. Brody. 



Botrychinm Lunaria S\v. "'34. Eough pasture on Tidenham 

 Chase, 1910 ! Near Dudbridge Railway Station, S. J. Coley. 



Equisetum arvense L. var. neviorosum Braun. Fairly frequent 

 in shady ditch sides, woods, &c., in 33 and 34. This variety I take 

 to be represented by a large, lax, long-branched form, which is 

 usually somewhat compoundly branched. — E. sylvaticncm L. '■'■34. 

 Forest of Dean, Hb. Brody. Near Speech House Road Station, 

 E. M. Day. — E. palustre L. var. nudum Newm. 34. Heath near 

 Mitcheldean, Hh. Brody. — Var. iwlystachyum Weigel. 33. Puck- 

 ham Bog, Hb. Tnmip ! 34. Woodchester, H. M. Middleton, spn. ! 

 — E. limosum L. -''34. Canal above Stroud ! S. Cerney ! River 

 sides about Newent ! Speech House Road ! and other places 

 with \QX. fluviatile (L.). 



Lycopodium alpinum L. " 33, Reader sp." Top. Bot. This 

 should be "34, of course. 



Chara fragilis Desv. "33. Taddington ! Canal &c., near 

 Kempsford ! Pond at S. Cerney Station ! — C. hisinda L. ••■33. 

 Canal, &c., Kempsford ! — C. vulgaris L. "33. Canal, &c., Kemps- 

 ford ! Sireford Pool, W. B. Storr. Dorsington ! f. longibracteata 

 papillata refracta. Cheltenham ! 34. Pool by canal above 

 Stroud ! Pits near Newent Canal, Hb. Brody. Arlingham ! 



Tolypdla glomerata Leonh. =^'33. Pool by canal, Chalford ! — 

 T. intricata Leonh. "34. Ditches near Newent Canal, Hb. Brody. 



Nitella opaca Agardh. 33 or 34. Pond, Berkeley Canal (or 

 Berkeley), Hb. Brody. 



Messrs. Groves have kindly named Characecs. 



THE HEPATICS OF NEW ZEALAND. 

 By L. S. Gibbs, F.L.S. 



The following collection was made in 1907 in the spring of 

 the year (October and November), when the Liverwort flora is 

 apparently in full fruiting season. 



Two localities were chiefly worked, the Nihotupu Hills, in the 

 vicinity of Auckland, of which the long low foot-hills are all cleared, 

 but the main range, about a thousand feet, still carries some good 

 mixed forest; and to the south of Auckland, in the Thames 

 district, at Te x^roha, which lies at the foot of Te Aroha Mountain, 

 3000 ft. in height, whose slopes are clothed with very fine virgin 

 mixed forest, fortunately to a certain extent reserved. For the 

 choice of this locality, which proved a very successful one, I was 

 indebted to the advice of Mr. D. Petrie, Chief Inspector of Scliools 

 at Auckland, who has contributed largely to a greater knowledge 

 of the Hepatica of his native country. It yielded a new Calo- 

 bryum, a genus in which, hitherto, only two species have been 

 known. 



The collection was restricted, with one or two exceptions, to 



