IIG T.ASMANIAN BRYOPHYTA, 



smaller. Differs irom L. appressifolia only in colour and 

 more compact habit. 



Cradle Mt. West Coast. 



Fuegia. 



Lepidozid .^erfidd^ St. — Ver)^ small, not usually flagel- 

 late. Leaves symmetric transverse subrotund, 0.3 mm., 

 suberect concave, 2-3rd sexfid, the four middle lobes lanceo- 

 late, 4 cells broad at base, lateral lobes shorter and nar- 

 rower ; cuticle minutely asperate ; underleaves smaller with 

 a shorter base, lobes 4 or 5. Very near L. appressifolia. 



Common on wet, sandy heaths. 



Eastern Australia. 



Lcpidoiid nicullifolia, St.- — Small, intricately branched 

 with flagellate tips, very dark olive green. Leaves sym- 

 metric remote suberect very concave, subrotund 0.6 mm. 

 broad and long, quadrilobed to or below the middle, lobes 

 lanceolate, 6-10 celled at the base subacute; cells 17 ^.^ 

 only the basal ones larger ; underleaves quadrate smaller 

 deeply quadrifid. Variable in colour and often with smaller 

 lobes. 



Adamson Peak. 



Lepid()zia centipes, Taijl. — Small glaucous. Leaves 

 symmetric, very obliquely inserted, remote on stem, 

 crowded on the branches, broadly obcuneate, divided to 

 the middle into 3-4 diverging acute lobes 0.3-0.6 mm., base 

 about 6 cells high, lobes 4-6 cells long, 2 cells wide at the 

 base ; cells 36-50 ^x., underleaves very much smaller with 

 a very short base and slender lobes. 



Distinguished by the glaucous symmetric leaves and 

 large- cells. 



Mt. Wellington. Castra. Freycinet Peninsula. 



Austral 



la. 



Lepidozid capiUi(icTO, Z/?i//6.— Small and slender with 

 few irregular branches, generally ending with flagellate 

 tips, greeri. Leaves obliquely inserted remote, quadrifid to 

 the middle, obcuneate, symmetric mostly 0.4 mm. long, 

 those of the branches often trifid and more crowded, cells 

 17-27 ^., lobes lanceolate acute widely diverging, cells 

 larger, 2 cells broad at the base ; underleaves similar but 

 smialler. 



Variable. A small condition refeiTed by Stephani to 

 a separate species as lepidozid oldficldiana. 



Very common. 



Australia. New Zealand. 



