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Lepiclozia Ioii[/i-'<c>/j)h(-f, TaijJ. — Small and slender, 

 iiTegularly branched. Leaves nearly transverse remote, 

 spreading trifid to the base, 0.35 mm. long, base 1 cell high 

 ^ind 6 broad, lobes diverging setaceous, 2 colls broad at the 

 base, 7 cells long; underleaves similar bnt smaller; cells 

 of lobes 45 X 15 ;u 



West CoavSt. East Australia. 



Levidozia rhaetojJii/Jhi, Spruce. — Small and very pale. 

 Leaves remote transverse, bifid or trifid to the base, lobes 

 setaceous, 0.3 mm. long, 1 cell wide, 4 cells long, rarely 

 more; cells rather inflated 60-100 x 30 ^. ; underleaves 

 smaller, generally 3 cells long. 



Mt. Wellington Plateau. Tasman Peninsula. 



South Africa. South America. 



Lepidozia praenitens, X. et L. — Small, branches mostly 

 with flagellate tips. Leaves remote on stems, crowded on 

 branches, symmetric very obliquely inserted, quadrifid to 

 the middle, 0.4 mm. long and broad, lobes lanceolate 4-6 

 •ceils broad at the base; underleaves smaller, more deeply 

 divided, appressed. 



Variable but distingiiished by the veiy oblique spread- 

 ing symmetric leaves. 



Very common. 



New Zealand. 



Lepidozia appressifolin, St. — Small and slender, pale 

 g]-een. Leaves obcuneate 0.4 mm. long, vei^^ concave, the 

 icbes shai-piv incurved, transversely inserted, quadrifid 

 below the middle, base rather narrow usually unidentate 

 on the margin, lobes slender 4-5 cells broad at the base, 

 cuticle verrucose ; underleaves about the same size but 

 more deeply divided, trifid rarely C|uadrifid. 



Very common. 



Form, arniaia. — Leaves crowded, 2-3rd quadrifid, lobes 

 lanceolate acute, 4-6 cells broad at the base, bavse 8 cells 

 high 16 cells broad, margin 1-2 dentate. 



Intermediate between this and L. se.xfida. 



Lepidozia saddJensis, B. et il/o-s-s.— Small and densely 

 massed, very dark. Leaves remote below, crowded above, 

 closely overlapping, and usually leaving a well-marked 

 dorsal groO'Ve, concave, transverse symmetric obcuneate, 0.4 

 mm. long, 2-3rd quadrilobed, lobes lanceolate sometimes 

 armed with a lateral tooth, 4 cells broad at base ; cell wall 

 thick, cuticle verrucose; underleaves similar and little 



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