158 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. \ Hepatic®. 



Hab. Northern Island : on trees, Auckland, Sinclair. Amongst Mosses, in ravines near Wellington, 

 Stephenson. Tehawera, etc., Colenso. 



Pallide viridis. Caulis trilinearis, repens. Folia laxe imbricata, pellucide areolata. AmpUgastria laciniis 

 paulo divergentibus. Perianthium inflatum, superne obtusum, fere heve. 



Nearly resembling L. thymifolia and L. serpyllifolia, but rather smaller, and with smaller cells. It is also 

 nearly allied to the Peruvian L. cyathophora, Mitten, particularly in its smooth inflated perianths. This species has 

 been gathered in Campbell's Island, and in Australia, by Mr. Bidwill, whose specimens, although apparently be- 

 longing to the same species, have more elongated and divergent leaves : it stains the paper in the same manner as L. 

 serpyllifolia. — Plate CIII. Fig. 3 : — 1, a plant, natural size; 2, a portion of the stem with leaves and stipule; 3, a 

 perianth, with involucral leaves and stipule, as seen on the ventral side ; 4, a transverse section of the upper part ot 

 the perianth : — all magnified. 



11. Lejeunia thymifolia, Nees. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 373. 



Hab. Northern Island : on live trees, Bay of Islands, Sinclair. Cape Turnagain, etc., Colenso. 

 Some of the specimens here referred to this species were named by Dr. Taylor L. serpyllifolia, from which, how- 

 ever, they are decidedly distinct in the form of the perianth. 



12. Lejeunia nudipes, Hook. hi. et Tayl. j caule repente dichotome ramoso, foliis obovatis basi atte- 

 nuates apice rotundatis obtusissimis lobulo parvo angusto mridentato, ampliigastriis ovatis bifidis laciniis 

 acutis, perianthio clavato superne pentagono retuso angulis cellulis majusculis prominentibus crenulatis, 

 foliis involucralibus conformibus lobulis ovatis amphigastrio obovato bifido segmentis ovatis. — Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. 1844, p. 568. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 372. (Tab. GUI. Pig. 4.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Bay of Islands, creeping on Mosses, J. D. II. 



Pallide viridis. Caulis bilinearis. Folia remota, cellulis paullulo majoribus marginata, subcrenulata, e cellulis 

 subopacis areolata. AmpUgastria parva, remota. Perianthium basi longiuseule attenuatum, substipitatum. 



A curious little species, readily distinguished by its obovate leaves, and clavate perianths, which appear naked 

 at their bases, owing to the form of the involucral leaves, which the perianth itself does not much exceed in length. 

 The perianth is not alate, nor are the leaves acute, as described by Dr. Taylor. — Plate CIII. Fig. 4 :— 1, a plant, 

 natural size; 2, a portion of the stem with leaves and stipule; 3, a perianth with involucral leaves and stipule, as 

 seen on the ventral side ; 4, a transverse section of the upper part of the perianth : — all magnified. 



13. Lejeunia implexicaulis, Hook. 111. et Tayl., Flor. Antarct. p. 165. G. L. etN. Syn. Hep. p. 376. 

 L. Mimosa el~L. dXhoviitms, Hoole. f J. et Tayl. I.e. p. 166. t. 66./. 4. G.L.et. N. Syn. Hep. p. 377 et 387 . 



Hab. Northern Island : amongst Mosses, Wellington, Stephenson. Manawatu Eiver, Colenso. 



Also found in Lord Auckland's Group and Campbell's Island. I do not recognize any character whereby to 

 distinguish the two species I have included under this. The L. albovirens is a rather smaller state than the others, 

 but the areolation has a peculiar grumous appearance, which renders the species more easily recognizable than 

 many others of these small plants. In the most perfect forms the apices of the leaves are incurved, and are either 

 acute or obtusely angled ; but in the smaller states (like the L. albovirens) this apiculus is wanting. The perianth 

 is compressed, with one carina on the dorsal side, and two on the ventral. 



14. Lejeunia papillata, Mitten; caule repente vage ramoso, foliis oblique ovatis obtusis dorso mar- 

 ginibusque papillis elongato-conicis asperrimis lobulo parvo rotundato inflato, amphigastriis parvis rotun- 

 datis bifidis, laciniis extus uni-bi-denticulatis, perianthio oblongo apice retuso basi attenuato superne sub- 

 compresso pentagono angulis papillosis, foliis involucralibus minoribus lobulo ovato, amphigastrio obovato 

 breviter marginato. (Tab. CIII. Eig. 5.) 



Hab. Northern Island: on Ilypnum hispidum, in ravines near Wellington, Stephenson; on Tricho- 

 manes elongatum, Sinclair ; on fronds of Hymenophyllum with Saccogyna ausiralis, Colenso. 



