92 TASMAMAN BKYOPHYTA, 



Form, minor. — Leaves under 1 mm., rigid alternate, 

 trigones small. 



Form, liinnilior. — Flaccid green, leaves alternate, the 

 dorsal base decurrent, apex generally rettise, trigones none. 

 Very common on mountains. 



Lopliocolea daryonia (G.), St. — Small, green. Leaves 

 alternate, rotund, often retuse, erect, 0.7-1 mm., entire, 

 base broad, trigones small, acute. Underleaves small, free, 

 little broader than th^ stem to f bifid, lobes acute, shortly 

 unidentate on each margin or plain. Perianth rather 

 large, cylindric below, triquetrous above. 



Mt. Wellington. King River. Launceston. 



Eastern Australia. 



Lopliorolca novap-zelandiae, yeex. — Small, much 

 branched, yellow, rather rigid. Leaves rotund to retuse 

 from a narrow base, erect, mostly under 1 mm., dorsal 

 base abruptly inserted, ventral rotund, cell-w^alls thin, 

 trigones small, concave. Underleaves free, oblong, nearly 

 as long as the leaf, base narrow, apex l-3rcl bifid, lobes 

 acute, incurved, sinus lunate. Perianth short cylindric, 

 strongly triquetrous above. 



Adamson Peak. 



New Zealand. 



Lophocolea fumida, St. — Kobust, flaccid, brown. 

 Leaves crowded, erect, rotund from a broad base, 2 mm., 

 margins incurved, dorsal base slightly decurrent, ventral 

 rotund, trigones large cohfluent. Underleaves large, sub- 

 cucullate, free, margin regularly remotely toothed. 



The above is fro'm Stephani's Spec. Hep. 



See ('liHoscyphuii cordifoliux. Bod. 



Mt. La Perouse. 



Lo]dioroIea hete^opliylloidef^, Nee^. — Long, slender, 

 closely procumbent. Leaves with a suberect base, but 

 regularly decurved above, broadly ovate-rotund, entire or 

 5,ome retuse or even bidentate, 1.5 mm. long, base not 

 broader than middle of leaf, trigones very small acute. 

 Underleaves twice as broad as the stem, broader than long, 

 deeply bifid, margins uni-bidentate, teeth short or long; 

 connate on one or both sides with the leaf. 



Very common. 



Australia. New Zealand. 



Lojdiorolea cnndHnilfita {Tay}.), St. — Very close to 

 and probably a form of Z. lietrrop]\ylloidc^. Smaller and 

 lea,ves less crowded. Leaves ovate-oblong from a rather 



