Flll'LLASlA. 3:i 



iiuile catkins linear, not <rlobose, postical lobes of peri^^jniul bracts 

 unidentate. 



Di:sc'Uii'TioN OF I'latk IV".- V'v^ 1. Plant natural size. 

 2. Portion of stem, antical view x IG (Ori^^inal, herb. Taylor). 

 M. Ditto, postical view x 24 (ditto). 4-G. Leaves x 24 (ditto). 

 7. Portion of leaf x 290 (ditto). 8. Stipule x 24 (ditto). 0. 

 Sub-braeteole x 24 (ditto). 10. Bract x 24 (ditto). 11. Brac- 

 teole X 24 (ditto). 12. Perianth x 10 (ditto). 13. Male spike 

 X 11 (Killarney, Holt & Stewart). 14. Perigonial bract x 24 

 (ditto). 



5. FruUania dilatata (Z.) Bum. 



Lichenastrum imhriccdum minus, Dill. Hist. Muse, p. 407, t. 72, n. 27 (1711). 

 Juwjermaiiia dilatata, Linn. Sp. PI., p. 160(>(1753); Hook, lirit. Jung. n. T) 



(1S16). 

 FruUania dilatata, Duni. Kecueil Jung. p. 13 (1835). 



Dioicous, closely creeping, often forming roundish patches or 

 substratitied, small to largish in size, deep purple colour, often 

 tinged with brown, to olive-green. Stems prostrate, loosely and 

 vaguely pinnate, 8 to 10 cells in diam., cortical cells about 30, 

 walls brown, inner white, equal in size to the cortical ; radiculose, 

 rootlets few, dirty white, })roceeding from the stipules. Leaves 

 imbricate, below smaller and then approximate, incubous, distich- 

 ous, unequally bilobed, antical lobe crossing the stem, horizontal, 

 concave, postical lobe about 3 times smaller, contiguous with the 

 stem, cucullate, saccate, oval-orbicular, sometimes near the bracts 

 widely subulate, plane or recurved ; epidermis dull, not polished : 

 cells smallish, subquadrate or subquadrate-oblong, irregular in 

 outline, lumen brown, walls and trigones hyaline. Stipules much 

 wider than the stem, distant, cuneate or obovate, bitid to |- or .\, 

 sinus acute, segments acute, outer margin slightly notched near 

 their base, margin plane. Stylus small, between the postical lobe 

 and stem, subulate or triangular-subulate. Flowers $ terminal 

 on main stem or branches, no innovant branches immediately 

 below theuj. Bracts larger than the stem leaves, unequally 

 bilobed, antical lobe subrotund, rotundate, margin quite entire, 

 undulate, often rcflexed, postical lobe half the size or less (.bliipioly 



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