Fimbriaria. franz stephani. species hepatigarum. 102 



ex apice innovata, rami postici rariores. Costa lata, fronde 3-plo angus- 

 tior, plano convexa, alis attenuatis margine obtusis. Stratnm anticum 

 humile, quam costa duplo humilius, laxe cavernosum, flla hbera subnulla. 

 Stomata magna, parum convexa, 6 cellulis triseriatis formata. Epidermis 

 antica tenerrima, haud incrassata, Squamse posticse tenerrimse, oblique 

 ovatee, hyalinse longe appendiculalae, appendiculo ubique 2-celIuIas lato, 

 purpureo, breviter acuminato, grandicellulari. Pedunculus ad 15 mm. 

 longus, subteres, humiliter costalus, labiis crassis rotundatis, ceterum 

 nudus, hyalinus, in setate plus fliinus purpurascens, apice breviter bar- 

 batus, paleis occultis anguste lanceolatis. Carpocephala juniora viridia 

 conica lobis pedunculo appressis, in aetate brunneola, centro subplano 

 parum papuloso, lobi 4, cuneati, subrecte patuli, usque ad medium soluti 

 (radiis cuneatis, bene conspicuis) valde papulosi, subplani apice truncato- 

 rotundati valdeque decurvi; involucra duplo breviora, tenera. Perianthia 

 subpendula, hyalina, brevissima, involucrum parum superantia, facile in 

 lacinias soluta. Capsula maxima, dilute brunnea, vertice maxime incras- 

 sata. Sporae brunnese 63 jjl, reticulatim alatae, alis latis asperis. Elateres 

 270 [i, tenues, bispiri, spiris laxe tortis, validis. Andrwcia pedunculo 

 approximata, ostiohs hyalinis. 



Hab. New Zealand (Colenso, Knight, Petrie, Kirk, Helms, Cheeseman), 

 Tasmania teste Mitten. 



29. Fimbriaria dissoluta St. in Engler, Ostafrica V, 

 p. 62. 



Monoica, major, dilute viridis, interdum omnino purpurascens. Frons 

 ad 3 cm. longa, 1 cm. lata, furcala, raihis mascuhs posticis numerosis, 

 apice ssepe vegetativis multiramosa, crassa, antice subplana, margiue 

 abrupte acuta, postice plano-convexa vel alis decurvis concava, alae crassse, 

 spongiosse, costa minima, vix prominula, froade octuplo angustior, paucas 

 cellulas alta; stratum anticum itaque totam frondem occupans, cavernis 

 magnis antice bullatim prominulis formatum. Stomata magna, 6 cellulis 

 sexseriatis conflata; squamde pos^zca^ purpurese, late oblique ovatse, appen- 

 diculo solitario aequilongo late lineari acuto, margine angulato. Peduncu- 

 lus vix 2 cm. longus, crassus, ubique nudus, purpureus subteres. Carpo- 

 cephala magna, hemisphserica, alte grosseque papulosa, lobls ad medium 

 solutis, centro capituli sequimagnis, validis decurvis, involucro sequilongo. 

 Perianthia late ovata, hyalina, acuta, ad medium exserta. Capsula hya- 

 lina, valida. Sporae fulvse 72 pi, anguste alatse. Elateres 300 ji pallide 

 flavescentes, bispiri, angusti, ubique sequilati, seepe ramosi, spiris latis, 



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