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ligulatis, ad 5 mm. latis subplanis. Costa angusta, postice valde producta, 

 medio 10 cellulas crassa, abrupte in alas excurrens. Alse grosse spinosee, 

 spinis minus remotis, e lata basi setaceis, in plano incurvis. Cellulas 

 alarum ad costam 54 X 72 jjl, medio 45 X 54 ^j., margine 27 X 72, {j., 

 parietibus aequaliter incrassatis. Sqmma fem, late inserta, subquadrata, 

 apice truncalo-rotundata, ad medium varie lacinulata. Calyptra crassa, 

 maxime mucosa. Capsula ovalis, 2 mm. longa in pedicello 2 cm. longo. 

 Sporse 18 jjl, granulatse. Elateres ad 600 jjl attenuatse, fibra laxe torta. 

 Andrcecia linearia, bracteis secus costam biseriatis cucuUatis, pauci- 

 spinosis. 

 Hab. New Zealand (Colenso, Ziirn). 



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 t^ 2. Symphyogyna crassicosia St. n. sp. 



Dioica, parva, rigida, pallde-virens vel llavescens. Frons e caudice 

 maxime ramoso procumbens, simplex vel e latere costse ramosa, ad 

 10 mm. longa, vix 3 mm. lata, superne semper atlenuata, decurva, 

 ambitu oblonga medio infero subexalato. Costa lata, medio 12 cellulas 

 crassa, postice optime producta, longe in alas attenuata. Fasciculum 

 flbrovasale crassum hyalinum. Alde crispatse, basi crasscp, limbo tenui 

 10 cellulas tantum lato, margine grosse spinoso, spinis confertis, e lata 

 basi attenuatis, in plano incurvis, ate ad basin frondis in stipile anguste 

 alato et crebre dentato longe attenuatae. Cellulae alarum ad costam 

 45 X 90 <x. medio 45 X 72 [j. margine 27 X 27 [j. vel longiores. Sqiiama 

 fem. late inserta, subquadrata, parum breviterque lobata, basi crassa, 

 antice lobulis similibus obsita. Andrcecia secus costam. biseriata, bracteis 

 remotis profunde saccatis, apice emarginalo-biciliatis, interdum in ramis 

 posticis anguslissimis creberrime spinosis crebre biseriata. 



Hab. Neiv Zealand (Kirk) in rupibus calcareis irroratis. 



3. Symphyogyna leptothelia Tayl. J. of Bot. 1846, p. 408. 



Dioica, mediocris, flaccida, viridis. Frons ad 35 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, 

 simplex vel postice ramosa, procumbens, subplana. Costa angusta, 

 biconvexa, medio 8 cellulas crassa, sensim in alas attenuata. Alse superne 

 angustatse, margine breviter dentatee, dentibus validis remotiS;, 3 cellulas 

 longis, subrecte patulis. Cellulae alarum ad costam 63 X 100 {i, medio 

 54 X 90 |ji, margine 27 X 72 ^. Androecia secus costam biseriata, 

 bracteis remotiusculis, profunde excisis, bispinosis. 



Hab. Brasilia (Sellow, Wainio, Ule), Peru (Matthews, Spruce). 



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