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Blephahostoma, Dum. 



Small and slender with few lateral branches. Leaves 

 succubous to nearly transverse more or less remote, patent, 

 4-8 lobed, lobes with setaceous apices and armed with 

 spinous teeth; cells rather large with equally thickened 

 walls ; underleaves similar. Perianth terminal cylindric, 

 mouth lobed and armed with spinous processes. 



Blepharofiiontd j^n^c^iena (IIoo/,.), >S7. — Stems from very 

 short to 2 cm. Leaves reniforni concave mostly divided 

 lialf-way into 4 broad lobes, lower leaves often 8-upper 12- 

 lobed, tip of each lobe elongated into a spine about 6 cells 

 long 1 cell wide, 0.5 mm. long without the spinous apex, 

 ■each lobe armed with about 4 spines; cells of base mostly 

 50 X 22 fjt,., those of the spines mostly 60-90 x 17 /x, 

 cuticle of upper cells asperate, lower ones striate. Perianth 

 1.2 mm. 



Mt. Wellington. Mt. Hartz. West Coast, Etc. 



New Zealand. 



Trichocolea, Dum. 



Robust pale flaccid densely caespitose ; stems usually 

 bearing numerous paraphylls, copiously bipinnate. Leaves 

 succubous crowded patent concave, deeply 3-5 lobed, inci- 

 sions acute and lobes rapidly tapering to a long spine, 

 lobes armed with numerous simple or compound spines ; 

 all cells large; underleaves smaller but similar. Perianth 

 absent; calyptra terminal oblong densely covered with 

 coarsely spinous paraphylls. 



Trichocolea aitslral i.<, >S7.- -Robust, often 10 cm. long, 

 pale, copiously branched. Leaves crowded the disk rather 

 narrow gradually separating into the lobes ; cells of disk 

 50 X 21 IX.. those of tlie spines longer and narrower, cuticle 

 striate. Calyptra obovate, 3 mm. long. Spores ferruginous 

 spherical coarsely asperate 15 ^. diameter. 



Differing from^ T. tonienieiJa {Eltrli.), Bum., in the leaf, 

 being less deeply divided as well as in the asperate spores. 



Very comm.on. 



New Zealand. 



Chaxdonanthus, Mitten. 



Stems rie'id, robust, simple or w^ith few lateral 

 branches. Leaves transverse or slightly oblique, imbricate, 

 deeply 2-4 lobed, base usually armed with few spinous 

 teeth, lobes broad acute entire or lobed ; underleaves 

 smaller, deenlv 2-lobed, lobes slender. Perianth teiTninal 



