226 TASMANIAN HEPATICffi. 



Perianth elongate, obliquely obovate; lips dilated, 

 incurved. — Chiloscyphus amphiholius, Nees, and retu- 

 satus, Hook. f. and Tayl., Fl. Antarct. 441, t. 161., f.3. 

 Plagiochila, Syn. Hep. 647. (PI. vi.) 



Among Mastigohryum accretum ; St. Patrick's 

 River — Gunn. St. Crispin's Well, Mt. Wellington— 

 R. A. B. (Lord Auckland's Group, Fuegia, Falkland 

 Islands.) 



3. TEMNOMA, Mitten. 

 Perianth truncate. 



From the truncate mouth of the perianth. Succuboue, 

 Perianth leafy. Fruit terminal. Perianth above 3-gonous. 

 truncate. 



Included in genus Jungermannia in Flora Tasm., and 

 removed from that genus by Mitten. 



1. T. PULCHELLA, Mitten. J. pulchella, Hook. Muse. 

 Exot., t. 94. Fl. N.Z. ii., 128. Stems tall, erect, 

 nearly simple. Leaves half vertical, subquadrate, 4-fid., 

 very membranous. Stipules broad, 5-6-fid. ; divisions 

 obtuse, ciliated. Perianth tubular 3-gonous above ; 

 mouth truncate, fringed w^ith long cilia that point in all 

 directions. (PI. vi.) 



Tasmania — Oldfield. (New Zealand.) 



^. LOPHOCOLEA, Nees. 



Fruit terminal. 



Perianth S-quetrous ; angles often alate ; mouth d-lipped, 

 closed ; stems procumbent, stipulate. 



Stems prostrate, creeping. Leaves succubous, distichous, 

 flaccid, decurrent at the base, 2-multifid. Stipules 2-4 cleft. 

 Fruit terminal. Involucre of 2-4 large leaves. Perianth 

 tubular below, 3-gonous above ; lobes toothed and crested. 

 Calyptra short, membranous, rupturing transversely at the 

 base or irregularly at the apex. Capsule on a slender fruit- 

 stalk, oblong ; elaters and antheridia in the bases of the peri- 

 gonial leaves. 



* Stipules connate by the decurrent bases on one or both 

 sides, with the leaves below them. 



