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appressed, lanceolate, or none. Perianth obovate, above 

 obtusely 4-gonoiis, with four inflexed laminae. Syn. 

 Hep., 672. (PL xi.) 



Wellington Falls— R. A. B. 



8. ADELANTHUS, Mitten, 



Fruit apparently lateral. Stipules 0. 



Stems erect from a creeping rhizome, branched. Leaves suc- 

 cubous, distichous, vertical, the dorsal margin decurrent. 

 Stipules 0. Fruit terminal on short ventral branchlets, con- 

 cealed at the bases of the branches. Involucral leaves 

 3-farious. Perianth tubular, subtrigonous ; mouth conni- 

 vent, toothed. Capsule on a slender fruitstalk. Elaters 

 with two spiral fibres. Antheridia in small ventral spikes. 



1. A. FALCATUS, Mitten in Journ. Linn. Soc, vii., 243. 

 Plagiochila, Flor. Tas., ii., 223. J. falcata, Hook. 

 Muse. Exot., t. 89. Stems much branched, 1-3 in, high; 

 branches falcate, incurved, thickened upwards. Leaves 

 dingy green, or brown, or black, imbricate, vei'tical, 

 erect, sub-opposite, orbicular ; dorsal margin sub-in- 

 flexed, quite entire, decurrent ; ventral toothed. Auli- 

 cularia occlusa, Fl. Antarct., 146. Syn. Hep,, 619. 

 (PI. xii,) 



Stems 3 in. or more in height, the leaves erecto- 

 patent and rather loosely disposed ; in the lower parts 

 of the stems they are quite entire, but as they approach 

 towards the apex they become more and more denticu- 

 late. Flora Tas. 



Tasmania — Gunn, Archer. Kermandie Rivulet, 

 South Huon— Oldfield. St. Crispin's Well, Mount 

 Wellington — R. A. B. (New Zealand, Campbell's 

 Island.) 



d. CHILOSCYPHUS, Corda, 



Fruit lateral, stems procumbent, stipulate. 



Stems prostrate, creeping, rooting from the bases of the stipules. 

 Leaves succubous, distichous, decurrent. Stipules often 

 decurrent and connate with the leaves below them. Fruit 

 terminal on very short lateral branches. Involucre of 2-6 



