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LophocoJed loiKji^fiimla, St. — Robust, pale often 

 brownish. Leaves rather rigid to flaccid, erect in the 

 younger plane in older parts, quadrate rotund to ovate- 

 ligulate, 2-2.5 mm. long, apex retuse to obtusely bidentate, 

 dorsal margin substrict shortly decurrent, ventral more 

 strongly arcuate; cells 36-50 ^., hexagonal, trigones in 

 some specimens rather large, in others small, walls thin. 

 Underleaves free, narrower than the stem, longer than 

 broad, 2-3rd bifid, margin dentate. 



For)}}, (itro-r'iruhi. Very flaccid; dark green. 

 Mt. Wellington. 



LopJiocolea palliJe-virens (TayL), St. — Robust, rather 

 rigid, pale gi'een to brownish. Leaves piano-distichous, 

 ovate, 3 mm. long, apex rotund, retuse, or bidentate with 

 short, acute unequal lobes; cells 36 ^., trigones small 

 acute. Underleaves little broader than the stem, connate 

 on one side, deeply bifid, sinus broad, lobes lanceolate 

 diverging. Perianth terminating a short lateral branch, 

 oblong-tric^uetrous, mouth 3-lobed, lobes rotund armed 

 with long laciniae. 



Mt. Wellington. West Coast. 



South America. 



Lophocolea amplectens, Mitt. — Very small, generally 

 under 1 cm. long. Leaves ascending, concave, broadly 

 ovate, base broad apex, l-3rd bifid, seldom exceeding 0.6 

 mm., lobes broadly lanceolate, subacute, sinus broad, cells 

 rotund 15-20 ^., trigones rather small, acute. Under- 

 leaves narrow, connate on both sides 2-3rd bifid, lobes 

 slendei acute, erect or spreading, margin with one small 

 tooth. Perianth short, cylindric, very slightly angled, 

 mouth with 3 short dentate lobes. 



Mt. Wellington. 



Lojiliocdlea a1J()(hmta, Tayl. — Medium size, pale. Leaves 

 piano-distichous, flat, alternate and not crowded, obliquely 

 quadrate to ligulate, 2 mm. long, apex with two very small 

 acute lobes at the angles but sometimes one or both lobes 

 absent ; cells 30-36 ^., trigones minute. Underleaves very 

 small, not broader than the stem, deeply bifid, lobes 

 slender, erect, margin with one basal spine. 



Mt. Wellington. 



Auckland Islands. 



LopliocoJea erectifuUa, St. — Medium size, pale. Leaves 

 opposite, crowded, erect then somewhat decurved, broadly 

 ovate-triangular hardly longer than broad, margins nearly 

 straight, apex to l-3rd emarginato-bilobed, sinus nearly 



