Hepaticcs.'] FLORA OP NEW ZEALAND. 159 



Pallide viridis. Caidis bilinearis. Folia remotiuscula, deflexa, margine dorsali convexo, ventrali subrecto, apicern 

 versus angustato inflexo. AmpMgaslria lsevia. PeriantMum medio subconstrietum, parcius papillosum, angulis 

 superne acutioribus. 



A curious little plant, about the size of L. serpyllifolia, but in the form of its papillose leaves more nearly allied to 

 the South American L. denticulata. There are, however, several apparently undescribed species, to which the present 

 is closely allied. — Plate CIII. Fig. 5 : — 1, plants, natural size, on a portion of the frond of Trichomanes elongatum ; 

 2, a portion of the stem with leaves and stipule ; 3, a perianth with involucral leaves and stipule ; 4, a transverse 

 section of the perianth in its upper part : — all ma 



15. Lejeunia latitans, Hook. fil. et Tayl., Flor. Antarct. p. 54. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 345. 

 Hab. Northern Island : moist banks in the interior, Colenso. 



A minute species, also found in Lord Auckland's Island : it resembles L. hamatifolia, but the margins of its 

 leaves are entire. The involucral leaves and obovate stipule are united at, and for a short distance above, their bases, 

 a circumstance which occurs in some other allied species, as in the European L. calcarea. 



16. Lejeunia dentata, Mitten ; foliis ambitu subrotundis apice insequaliter bidentatis sinu obtuso mar- 

 gine dorsali tridentatis ventrali integerriinis, lobulo majusculo ovato oblongo obtusiusculo integerrimo, ani- 

 phigastriis millis. 



Hab. Adhering to a Moss from New Zealand {Mr. Sowerby in Herd. Mitten). 



The fragment from which this very distinct species has been described is but two or three lines long, and 

 the plant appears to be rather smaller than L. tumida ; it is readily distinguished from all other New Zealand species 

 by the broad teeth of its leaves. 



17. Lejeunia comitans, Hook. fil. et Tayl.; caule implexo procumbente vage subramoso, surculis sur- 

 sum incrassatis, foliis imbricatis tumidis patentibus oblongis acutiusculis apice recurvis integerriinis, lobulis 

 ovatis inflexis subunidentatis, amphigastriis minutis incontiguis rotundatis bifidis, perianthio axillari sub- 

 exserto obcordato triquetro. — Lond. Journ. Bot. 1846,^3. 400. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 760. 



Hab. Northern Island : Bay of Islands, with L. m,ollis among Lichens, /. D. H. 



Pallide olivacea. Caules vix bilineares. Folia minute areolata, arete imbricata. Perianthium dorso compla- 

 natum, ventre late unicarinatum. 



This species is not now in British Herbaria. 



Gen. XX. LRULLANIA, Radii. 



1. Lrullania patula, Mitten ; caule pinnatim ramoso, foliis laxe imbricatis orbiculatis integerrimis erecto- 

 patulis margine ventrali basi late inflexo in auricula galeata subcompressa decurva transeunte, amphigastriis 

 magnis cordato-orbiculatis brevissime bifidis, perianthio obovato apiculato laevissimo, foliis involucralibus 

 elongatis ovatis obtusis basi ventricosis perianthium arete amplectentibus. (Tab. CIV. Fig. 1.) 



Hab. Northern Island : dead bark, Tarawera, Colenso. Fences, Manawatu Eiver, etc. 



Olivaceus, fnscescens. Caidis pollicaris, pinnatim ramosus. Folia remotiuscula, dorso cauli adpressa, pla- 

 niuscula, auricula parva galeata decurva. Amphigastria folia subaequantia. Folia involucralia basi maxime ventri- 

 cosa, dimidium periantliii arete obtegens. AmpJdgaslrium involuerale oblongum, parvum, apice lacerum. Perian- 

 thium pro planta parvum, ubique tevissimum. 



A species with considerable resemblance to the South American F. arietina, Taylor, but with less closely im- 

 bricated leaves, which too are patent, so that one-third of the leaf remains on the opposite side of the stem when 

 viewed from beneath. The curious perianth of this species at first sight appears to be concrete with the in- 



