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which seem to indicate that, like some forms of i. Nov. 

 Zealandice, the form of the stipule may be considerably- 

 modified, as well as the habit of the plants^ by the 

 situation in which they may have grown. 



3. L. Tasmanica, Mitten. Stems 1 in. long, procumbent, 



vaguely branched ; leaves divaricate (in one plane}, 

 subovate, bidentate, with small sub-oblique sinus at the 

 apices, rarely one-tooth on dorsal margin, united to the 

 stipules ; the stipules 4- toothed. Perianth prismatic, 

 winged, wings dentate. (PI. vii.) 



Nearly allied to L. connata, Sw., and L. Beechyana, 

 Tayl. From the first it differs in the form of the leaf 

 and emargination, the sinus being narrower, and the 

 cells have thinner walls ; from L. Beechyana, as well 

 as from L. 3Iartiana-Nees, it recedes in the entire 

 ventral margins of its involucral leaves. 



4. L. BiciLiATA, Mitten. Fl. N.Z. ii., 137, t. 97, f 4. 



Stems one inch long, procumbent, nearly simple. 

 Leaves broad, spreading, brownish-green, loosely imbri- 

 cate, deltoid-ovate, truncate, and 2-toothed, teeth 

 slender. Stipules small, 2-partite ; segments 2-toothed 

 on one side. — Chiloscyphus, Hook. f. and Tayl. Lond. 

 Jour. Bot., 1845,84; Syn. Hep., 707. (PI. iii.,f 2. 

 PI. vii.) 



Brown's River— A. J. Taylor. Gully Mt. Wel- 

 lington— H. J. Smith, R. A. B. (New Zealand.) 



LoPHOCOLEA CoLENSOi, Mitt., is transferred to Chilo- 

 scyphus; it resembles C. Coalitus. (PL vii.) 



5. L. LEUCOPHYLLA, Taylor. Syn. Hep., p. 155, Stems 



2-3in. long, slender, creeping, branched. Leaves pale- 

 greenish or whitish-brown, closely imbricate, rather 

 horizontal than vertical, convex, membranous, cellular, 

 pellucid, triangular-ovate ; margins strongly recurved, 

 broadly connate, with the stipules sharply toothed all 

 round. Perianth terminal; laciniae entire, obtuse. — 

 Chiloscyphus, Fl. Antarct., 157, t. 65, f. 4. Syn, Hep., 

 181, 706. (PI. xiv.) 



Tasmania, Hb., GreviUe. A few slender stems 

 have been picked from amongst other Hepaticce from the 

 Acheron River, gathered by Mr. Gunn. Mt. Wel- 

 lington — Gulliver ; R. A. B. (New Zealand.) 



6. L. AUSTRIGENA, Taylor, Jung. AuMrigena, Hook, f. 



and Tayl. Fl. Antarct., p. ]25 to 157, f. 7, and t. 158, 

 f. 5 ; G. L. and N., Syn. Hep., p. 702. (PI. viii.) 

 Growing in water on the top of Fatigue Hill, eleva- 



