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furcata ; Back River Gully ; North- West Bay Gully — 

 Oldfield. Gully, Mount Wellington— R. A. B. (New 

 Zealand.) 



9. C. TRIDENT AT us, Mitten. C. comhinatus, Fl. N,Z., ii., 

 141. Stems procumbent, slender, 1 in. long. Leaves 

 brownish-green, convex, rigid, shortly oblong or sub- 

 quadrate, truncate, 2 or 3 toothed at the apex ; margins 

 recurved ; stipules small, 4-toothed, connate on one side 

 with a leaf below. (PI. xiv.) 



Tasmania — Dumout d'Urville — Archer. Damp 

 ground, Grass Tree Hill — Oldfield. St. Patrick's 

 River — Gunn. (New Zealand.) 



10. C. ECHINELLUS, Mitten in Fl. N.Z., ii., 141. Stems 



small, procumbent. Leaves sub-imbricate, horizontal, 

 sub-rotund, spinulose toothed. Stipules 2-partite ; seg- 

 ments lanceolate-subulate, toothed. Loplwcolea, Syn. 

 Hep., 703. 



Creeping amongst mosses — Archer. (New Zealand.) 



11. C CYMBALiFERUS, Hook. f. and Tayl. Jungermannia, 



Fl. Antarct., 151, t. 64, f. 5. Stems tufted, 1 in. high, 

 sub-erect or procumbent, curved. Leaves pale green 

 or yellowish, flaccid, pellucid, densely and closely 

 imbricate, erecto-patent, very concave, subsecund, 

 obliquely orbicular, serrulate ; dorsal margin produced 

 into an obovate inflated auricle. Stipules free, very 

 broad, transverse, tumid, closely imbricating, obscurely 

 3-lobed or quite entire. Perianth lateral, ovate-oblong, 

 tumid below, compressed below the plaited toothed 

 mouth. Syn. Hep., 711. A very peculiar plant. 



(PI. XV.) 



Mount Wellington — Mossman, R. A. B. (New 

 Zealand.) 



12. C. LiMOSUS, Carr. and Pear. Roy. Soc. Tran. Tas. 



1887. Dioicous ; tufts shallow, depressed, sordid green ; 

 stems sparingly branched ; leaves complanate, nearly 

 opposite, imbricate, ovate-triangular, rounded at the 

 apex, sometimes retuse, decurrent ; under leaves con- 

 nate with the adjacent leaves, patent, cuneate-quadrate, 

 quadrifid, divided half way into four acute equal 

 segments ; involucral bracts connate about half way, 

 irregularly dentate ; perianth cyathiform, slightly alate, 

 mouth wide, tri-laciniate-alate, irregularly sinuate den- 

 tate ; andrcscium amentiform, minute ; antheridia single, 

 oval. (PI. XV. and xxxix.) 

 Brown's River — R. A. B. 



