130 TASMANIAN BKYOPf^YTA, 



Schistocliila frar/ilis, St. — Robust but short, closely 

 procumbent. Leaves oblong, obtuse, 3-4 mm. long, im- 

 bricate squarrose entire or with a few small t-eeth at the 

 apex, dorsal lobe smaller, adnate to the ventral about one- 

 Ihird within the margin, shortly free at the apex, margin 

 entire. Underleaves none. 



Mt. Hartz. Cradle Mt. West Coast. Trowutta. 



Schistocliila jjochyla {TayL), St. — Robust, often elon- 

 gating to 10 cm. Leaves crowded ovate-cordate, 5 mm.j 

 margin armed with few short broad teeth, doi-sal lobe same 

 size entire, wing double narrow linear, entire. Under- 

 leaves large rotund, apex bilobed, margin entire or lobed, 

 often armed with a few cilia. Distinguished from S. 



lehmanniana by the entire wings and different underleaf 

 and usual absence of paraphylls, but some forms appear 

 intermediate. 



West Coast. Adamson Peak. 



Fuegia. 



Schistocliila parvistipula, Rod. — Stems mostly about 



3 cm., decumbent, copiously radiculose, thick, fleshy. 

 Leaves squarrose, loosely imbricate, broadly ovate obtuse, 



4 mm. long, lobes nearly equal and united to the apex, 

 dorsal lobe attached by the margin, wing single relatively 

 broad, margins entire but often an obscnre tooth near the 

 apex of the dorsal lobe; cells rotund 35-50 fx., walls 

 rather thin, trigones small concave ; underleaves oblong, 

 rather narrower than the stem, 1.3 mm. long, bifid below 

 the middle, lobes lanceolate acute, margin with few ill- 

 defined teeth. 



Cradle Mt. 



Schistochila spegazziniana (Massal), St. — Robust, rigid, 

 decumbent, reddish brown, often 10 cm. long. Leaves 

 crowded, squarrose, ovate, 5 mm. long, obtuse, entire; 

 dorsal lobe the same size or little shorter, apex rotund, 

 entire ; underleaves none. 



A few scraps on Button Grass Plains, West Coast. 

 Stephani marks its determination as uncertain. 



Fuegia. 



Radula, Dum. 



Prostrate, pinnate or bipinnate branches, pale green. 

 Leaves incubous, piano-distichous, patent, obliquely 

 oblong entire ; ventral lobe very small appressed, base 

 broadly attached to the stem, inner margin free, outer 

 margin attached by at least most of its length to the 

 leaf, apex usually short, straight, with usually an obtuse 



