BY L. ROD WAY. 11J> 



Lepidozia cilaucophyJIa, Tai/I. — Robust and glaucous,, 

 freely branclied, the lower ones flagellate. Leaves oblique 

 asymmetric ovate-truncate, l-3rd quadrifid, but some tri 

 or bifid, 0.9 mm. long, those on branches smaller often 

 minute; lobes lanceolate, inner ones usually 7-9 cells at 

 base, outer ones 2-3 celled but variable; cells 15-20 //.;. 

 underleases half as large as leaves, rather broader thaix 

 the stem, quadrifid to the middle. Cuticle minutely 

 asperate. 



Mt. Wellington. Adamson Peak. 



Australia. New Zealand. 



Lepidozia allniln (Tat/I.), L. uloflirix (Lindb.). — Very 

 variable in habit, often forming yellow^ mats, branches 

 often with flagellate tips. Leaves crowded imbricate asym- 

 metric quadrifid below the middle, L4 mm., dorsal margin 

 strongly curved amied with generall}^ 5-6 unequal spines, 

 lobes acute simple or armed ; cells unequal thick walled 

 20-30 /J..; underleaves broader than long, half as large a.^ 

 leaves, deeply cleft into 4 slender deeply bifid lobes, but 

 varying from 2-6 lobed, armed or not. 



Veiy variable in habit, size, shape of lobes, and arma- 

 tui'e, but always distinguishable by the deeply bifid lobes 

 of underleaves. 



Very common. 



Auckland Islands. 



Lepidozia appendiculato , /b7.— Medium size, the 

 branches sometimes 3 cm. long. Leaves closely overlapping 

 asymmetric deeply 6-lobed, 1 mm. long, L4 mm. broad, 

 lobes narrow-lanceolate diverging, margin armed with many 

 long simple or compound 1-cell spines, and surface at least 

 w^hen young covered with small-celled proliferation. Under- 

 leaves similar but smaller. "Perianth large to 1 cm. long, 

 base fleshy, mouth spinulose. ' 



A very distinct and rare species. Only found hitherto 

 in swampy land near Kingston. The above description is 

 partly adapted from Stephani, as only one or two scraps 

 are present in the author's collection. 



Lembidium, Mitten. 



Branches erect from a stoloniferous base; stems thick 

 with numerous slender more or less circinate pinnate or 

 bipinnate branches. Leaves transverse, stem-clasping ap- 

 pressed to patulous, deeply divided into linear incui'ved 

 lobes to entire concave, branch leaves smaller; underleaves 

 similar nearly as large to rudimentary; cells medium size 



