94 TASMANIAN BRYOniYTA, 



L>i)h(Kolcci lauterhacliii, Si. — Pale, short, and 

 'oranched, but sometimes on bark with very long simple 

 shoots;. Leaves obliquely rotund from a very bread base, 

 mostly 1 mm. long, 1.7 mmx. broad, crowded erect to almost 

 fiat, more or less deBcxed, margin undulate with few 

 very short teeth or sometimes with more spinous teeth, 

 lower leaves truncate to obtusely bidentate. Unclerleaves 

 broader than the stem free, deeply bifid lobes long slender, 

 sinus broad, margin dentate. 



Mt. Wellington. Mt. Field. 



Lophocolea sponyiom, St. — Robust but flaccid and 

 tender, pale. Leaves ovate to reniform, oblique, 2 mm. 

 long, 3 mm broad at the base, crowded, slightly deflexed, 

 much crumpled when dry, margin nude or with a few short 

 broad tooth. Underleaves twice as broad as the stem, 

 deeply bifid, lobes long slender, sinus not broad, margin 

 dentate, when large lobes and lateral lobes armed with 

 acute teeth ; floral leaves very large. Perianth cylindric 

 or obtusely triquetrous, angles not winged. Leaves are 

 much more flaccid than those of /.. rupirola, much larger 

 than L. IdJiterhdclii i . Underleaf very different to Z. 

 niacrosti pula. 



Mt. Wellington. 



Lopliocolca fix.^i.Kfipida, St. — Robust to very small, 

 ffoselv creeping on bark, many branched. Leaves nearly 

 23lano-disticlious, strongly decurved, obliquely ovate- 

 triangular from a broad base, apex entire or truncate, 

 upper ones even bidentate, 2 mm. long, but branch leaves 

 ^sometimes under 1 mm., margin usually irregularly den- 

 tate, sometimes in shade somewhat papillate on the sur- 

 face, resembling Z,. inuricata. Underleaves rather large, 

 deeply bifid, lobes slender, marginal lobes slender, all 

 armed with spinous teeth. 



Mt. Wellington. Near Launceston. 



Loithorolca raridhilis, St. — Rather small, fragile and 

 very pale. Leaves piano-distichous, variable, mostly 

 obliquely quadrate to broadly ovate-truncate or obtusely 

 bidentate, or one lobe very reduced, dorsal margin nearly 

 straight with a slightly decurrent base, ventral deeply 

 curved, about 1 mm. Underleaves as broad as the stem, 

 deeplv bifid, lobes slender diverging, margin dentate. 



Very close to Z. hi!<pino'<r/, differs in smaller size and 

 variable foliage. 



Mt. Wellington. 



New Zealand. 



