BY B. CARRINGiOlf, M.D., l.-R.S.,t. AND tV. H. PEAESON, ESQ. 3 



Hab., St. Crispin's "Well, Mount Wellington, January llth, 

 1886. 296. 



Obs. — Differs from the type in the more transverse inser- 

 tion and peculiarly sudden inflexion of the leaf, the 

 palmatifid portion rising at nearly right angles with the 

 base ; leaves quadrifid, shorter and broader at the base, to 

 which is attached a short or reflexed spur, on one or both 

 sides, and the extremely long perianth. From Lepidozia 

 truncatella (Nees) which has basal teeth on both sides of the 

 leaf, by the oblique insertion of the leaves in that species, not 

 inflexed and the much shorter triangular teeth. 



In Lepidozia nemoides, Tayl., the leaves are erecto-patent, 

 the teeth more slender, and composed of one or (near the 

 base) two series of oblong cells. 



[Lepidozia vEHTicEiiLATA Care., mss.] 



This is a taller (2in. and more) and more rigid form, main 

 stems dark brown, polished, with distant whorled leaves, 

 branches short, spreading, bearing 2-3 short ramuli, on which 

 the leaves are more closely imbricated ; base of the leaves 

 and under leaves of the main stem generally spurred. This 

 form is referred by Mr. Mitten and others to Lepidozia 

 capilligera, but anyone who will examine the engraving of 

 that species in Lindenberg's Sp. Hep., PI. IV., will find that 

 L. capilligera belongs to the section in which the leaves are 

 inserted obliquely like L- prcenitens, and not to the section 

 with verticellate leaves with transverse insertion. The 

 recurved booklets at the bases of the leaves and stipules are 

 probably intended to enable the plant to climb and afiRx itself 

 to other hepaticse and mosses. 



L. quadrifida, Tayl., from Auckland Island, seems to me to 

 be the true L. capilligera, Lindenb. ! This is growing with 

 L. capillaris from Mount Wellington. 



[Cephalozia (Zbopis) Leitgebiana n. sp.]. 



• Dioicous ; fronds irregularly branched, distantly bipinnate, 

 silvery green, creeping ; stems linear, sub-compressed, formed of 

 large, tumid cells, flagelliferous, branches lateral and postical ; 

 leaves succubous, sub-alate, divided to the base into two segments, 

 connjvent, upper twice the size of the lower, triangular or broadly 

 subulate, lower subulate, cells large, reticulate, quadrate-rotund ; 

 under leaves binate, elliptic-oblong, sometimes bearing a smaller 

 cell at the apex ; involucre postical ; bracts, 3 pairs, much larger 

 than the leaves, bifid, with a short outer tooth ; perianth ovate 



