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Srhistocliila ciUigcra (Taijl.), St. — Robust, often 6 can. 

 long, yellow. Leaves ovate-cordate, acute, crowded, 4 mm. 

 Icng, squarrose, the two lobes almost equal ujiited for five- 

 sixth of length, margin bearing numerous slender cilia ; wing 

 at junction of the lobes narrow also ciliate ; underleaves 

 absent. Bracts enlarged, calyptra cylindric, 2 mm., 

 inouth fimbriate completely immersed, upper bracts adnata 

 to the calyptra. 



West Coast. Hartz Mountains. Cradle Mountain, 

 etc. 



Stewart Island. 



Schistnchila fasuuniira, St. — Robust, often 4 cm. long. 

 Leaves broadly ovate cordate, apex obtuse, crowded 

 squarrose, 5 mm long ; lobes almost equal united beyond 

 the middle, wing narrow^ double, margin and wing armed 

 with numerous single-celled cilia; underleaves 2-3 mm. 

 long, deeply divided into two spathulate lobes, copiously 

 ciliate. Bracts not much larger than leaves, calyptra 

 deeply immersed. Trigones small concave. Very close 

 to S. ciJiata. differing principally in the cilia being one- 

 celled. 



Mt. Wellington. Adamson Peak. West Coast, etc. 



Schistocliila ciJiata (Mitt.), St. — Robust. Leaves 

 closely imbricate, oblong, obtuse, 4-5 mm. long, lobes 

 equal, 2-3rd combined, margin armed with long cilia 

 each 2-3 celled, wing double narrow usually entire; under- 

 leaves half as large as leaves divided to the middle into 

 two spathulate lobes armed with many cilia. Calyptra 

 very small, deeply immersed. Trigones medium convex. 



Mt. Hartz. West Coast. 



New Zealand. 



Schistocliila hlimanniana (Lindb.), Nees. — Very ro- 

 Imsfc often 10 cm. long, pale greenish or yellow, stem 

 thick with paraphylls amongst the leaves. Leaves ovate 

 acute, the dorsal lobe rather shorter than the ventral, 

 6 mm. long, crowded squarrose, margin armed with nu- 

 merous short, shai-p teeth, lobes | adherent with a double 

 wing, wings narrow entire or nearly so, the ventral wing 

 the broader and also a small supplementary wing towards 

 the apex of the ventral lobe ; underleaf 2 mm. long, 4 mm. 

 wide, 4-lobed to middle, lobes and basal margin armed with 

 a few cilia. 



Veiy common in forests. 



Stewart Island. 



