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FLORA OP NEW ZEALAND. 



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Hab. Northern and Middle Islands : forests, head of Wairarapa river, Colenso. Chalky Bay, Lyall. 

 Also found in Campbell's Island, Tasmania, Australia, and Fuegia. 



Gen. XV. SENDTNERA, EndlicJier. 



1. Sendtnem juniperina, Nees. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 230. 



Hab. Northern Island : a single stem, with Fungermannia colorata, top of Buahine range, Colenso. 



The New Zealand specimen of this widely diffused (but not Antarctic) species, although of a pale brown colour 

 appears to belong to that form which has been brought from the Sandwich Islands, and noticed in the • Synopsis 

 Kepaticarum as 3 sanguinea; and is intermediate in size and appearance between the European and tropical forms. 



2 . Sendtnera ^n>W, Nees. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 240 et 722. Mastigophora hirsuta, Nee,. 



Flor. Antaret.p. 160 et 443. 



Hab. Middle Island : Milford Sound and Port Preservation, lyall. 

 Also found in Campbell's Island, Fuegia, Mexico, Java, and South Africa. 



3. Sendtnera Scolopendra, Nees. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 241 et 723. Flor. Antaret.p 160 Jun- 

 germannia Scolopendra, Hoot. Muse. Exot. t. 40. Schisma Scolopendra, Nees et Ami. 



Hab. Middle Island : Dusky Bay, Menzies. 

 Found as far south as Campbell's Island. 



4. Sendtnera attenuata, Mitten; ramis adscendentibus, ramulis attenaatis divaricatis pinnatim ramosis 

 folns imbricate basi ovatis ad medium bifidis segmentis bipartite laciniis lanceolatis margine ventrali inte- 

 gemmo dorsali spmoso-dentato, amphigastriis conformibus profundius fissis marginibusque basi denticulatis, 

 involucro ovato foliolis ramentisque vestito. (Tab. OIL Pig. 2.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Bay of Islands, /. D. H. 



Pallide fusca. Rami tripollicares, simplices vel rarius ramosi. RamuU flexuosi, flagelliformes, attenuati, parum 

 ramosi. Folia cauli appressa. AmpJdgastria basi denticulis calcariformibus decurvis aucta. Involucrum e foliis 

 amphigastrusque supremis calyptro coadunatis compositum. Gapsula orbicularis, brevipedicellata. 



Closely allied to 8. ochroleuca in habit and appearance, but differing in the ovate bases of its leaves, which are 

 cleft only to the middle, and are dentate on the dorsal margin ; the laciniaa too are less spreading. The involucrum 

 m tins species is formed, as in Gottscnea, by the adhesion of the upper leaves to the calyptra.-PiATE CII Fig 2 ■ 

 -1, a male and female plant, natural size; 2, a leaf; 3, a stipule; 4, an involucrum entire; 5, a section of the in- 

 volucrum, showing the capsule within, and the barren pistils on the top of the calyptra -.-all magnified. 



5. Sendtnera flagellifera, Nees. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 242. Jungermannia flagellifera, Hook 

 Muse. Exot. ^. 59. 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands : Dusky Bay, Menzies. Fagus forests, Colenso. Port Preserva- 

 tion, Lyall. Bay of Islands, A. Cunningham, etc. Hokianga, Jolliffe. 



Gen. XYI. TBICHOCOLEA, Bmnort. 



1. Tnchocolea tomentella, Nees. var. <y. Javanica; caule laxo irregulariter bi-tripinnato, ramis termina- 

 libus divaricatis.— G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 237. T. mollissima, Flor. Antaret.p. 161. 



Hab. Throughout the Islands ; abundant in damp woods. 

 This is found in Lord Auckland's Group, and as far south as Campbell's Island. 



2. Trichicolea lanata, Nees. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 238. Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 186. 



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