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Marsupidium piUferum, St. — Small, rigid, erect. 

 Leaves crowded, closely imbricate, concave, 1-1.5 mm., 

 rotund to oblong with 2 filiform spines towards the apex 

 otherwise entire; cuticle smooth. 



Adamson Peak. Trowutta. Cradle Mt. 



Eastern Australia. Chile. 



Anastrophyllum (Spruce). St. 

 Robust and rigid, simple or with few branches arising* 

 from the ventral angles of the leaves. Leaves succubous 

 or nearlv transversely inserted, strongly secund, base stem- 

 clasping, apex unequally bifid ; cells with sinuous walls 

 and large trigones. Underleaves none. Bracts rather 

 larger, usually armed; perianth terminal cylindric, plicate 

 above, mouth constricted laciniate. 



AnasfropliyUum scJn'.^nioides (Mont.), St. — Dark red. 

 usuallv 3-6 cm. Leaves crowded, imbricate, concluplicate, 

 asymmetric, ventral margin longer and more strongly 

 cui*ved than the dorsal, l-3rd bifid, lobes broad not very 

 acute, sinus broad, 1.3 mm. ; cells 16 ^, trigones as large 

 as the cells, cuticle smooth, bracts similar to and not much 

 larger than the leaves; perianth 3 mm. 



Adamson Peak. Hartz Mts. Blue Tier, Etc. 



New Zealand. South America. 



Ana.-itroj)hyllum tasmanicum. Hod . — Robust, pale olive 

 green, branching 3-4 cm. Leaves not strongly secund, al- 

 most squarrose nearly symmetric, to l-3rd bilobed, lobes 

 nearly equal, broad, usually with a very acute apex, margin 

 just above the ventral base armed with a few acute teeth, 

 1.4 mm.; cells 20 ^., cuticle coarsely verrucose. Perianth 

 narrow ovate, 3 mm., with about 8 deep plaits. 



Adamson Peak. Mt. Hartz. 



Very like Cliandonantlni.'i .^quarro.sux, but the complete 

 absence of underleaves and paraphylls distinguishes it. 



Saccogyna, Dum. 



Robust, decumbent, with few branches from the ven- 

 tral surface. Leaves succubous, nearly opposite, entire or 

 with two unequal and irregular teeth, dorsal base decur- 

 rent; underleaves large, bifid. Sporophyte inserted in a 

 fleshy marsupium remote from the apex. 



General appearance strongly resembles Chilosryplius 

 of the Cli. coalifus type. 



Saccogyna au^traUii, Mitt. — Long slender, yellowish 

 green. Leaves plane, squarrose, ovate-triangular, slightly 



