106 ADDITIONS TO THK TASMAMAN FLORA, 



HEPATICS. 



Marsupidi/um piliferum, St. Erect, 5-10 mm., simple. 

 Leaves succubous, nearly transverse, broadly oblong, 

 amplexicaul ; apex with two long acute spinelike lobes. 



Adamson Peak, Trowutta. 



Apia: ia alpina, Spec. nov. Stems weak, slender, often 

 2-3 cm. long. Leaves mostly distant, rotund, very con- 

 cave, nearly transverse, mostly 0.7 mm. long, bracts rather 

 longer. Perianth 2 mm. long, fusiform tapering to a nar- 

 row 3-lobed mouth, dorsal surface, with an obtuse keel, 

 ventral with a broad, deep groove. All parts green. 

 Stunted forms sometimes have a shorter perianth, with 

 a wider 3-lobed mouth, and a small, shortly bifid bracteole. 



Mt, Wellington plateau. 



Pallavicinius connivens (Col.), St. Erect, from a terete 

 rhizome, 1-2 cm., lower portion slender terete, upper part 

 2-3 times forked, broadly winged, flabellate, edges involute, 

 margin strongly dentate. Fruit towards the base of the 

 primary fork on the dorsal surface of the midrib. Involucre 

 short, cup-shaped, with a fimbriate mouth ; perianth 

 broadly cylindric, 3-4 mm., mouth fimbriate. Spores yel- 

 low, marked with short, sinuate, shallow ridges or irregular 

 papillae, 30,u. 



Mt. Wellington plateau, New Zealand. 



Chiloscyphus lirkii, St. Differing from C. conjugatut. 



Mitt., by its smaller size, ventral margin usually armed 

 with one or two teeth, dorsal margin with a small dentate 

 enlargement at the base, underleaves armed with a few 

 short teeth, very slightly joined to the leaves, and the 

 cuticle covered with relatively large, short papillae. 



Gathered on Adamson Peak, Ida Bay, and Mt. Field. 

 Also New Zealand. 



Chiloseyphus cord if alius, Nov. Spec. Robust, 4-6 cm. 

 long, densely pulvinate, yellow. Leaves erecto-homomal- 

 lus, closely imbricate, alternate, rotund, 1 mm. long, rather 

 broader than long, both bases cordate and free, margin 

 entire, cells towards the margin 16m- diameter, lower ones 

 33/i., trigones as large as the cells, confluent, cuticle 

 smooth. Underleaves rotund, concave, imbricate, free, 0.7 

 mm. long, margin entire, or with about 6 obtuse angles. 

 Specimen sterile. 



Adamson Peak. 



