BY E. A. BASTOW, F.L.S. 243 



ii., 230. stems creeping, 3 to 8 lines long, branched. 

 Leaves imbricate, oblong, ovate, concave, pale green, 

 under surface scattered with rootlets, fruit descending 

 from the apex. 



A very small species of a very neat habit, and with 

 somewhat the look of the stems of gome states of 

 Jungermannia nana, Nees. The apex of the stem is 

 slightly thickened and curved downwards, and the 

 involucral leaves being directed upwards at right angles, 

 give the stems of this and some allied species an abrupt 

 appearance. The areolation is similar to that of G. 

 Urvilleana. PI. xvi. 



Tasmania, Gunn, creeping over Jungermannia Tas- 

 inanica. 



L. DEirMMONDii, Mitten in PL N.Z. p. 144, PI. 99, f. 8. 

 Stems fin long, stout, creeping, rooting at the the tips. 

 Leaves greenish-brown, imbricate, spreading, flat, 

 upper larger, ovate, obtuse, quite entire ; dorsal margin 

 sub-recurved. Involucre as long as the plant, clavate, 

 with scattered rootlets. Biccia squamata, Tayl. in. 

 Drummonds Swan River mosses. Podanthe squamata, 

 Tayl. in Lo^d. Journ. Bot. 1846, p. 413. Svn. Hep. 

 789. PL xvii. 



Bogs, Brown's Eiver, Oldfield. (Australia, New 

 Zealand.) 



14. BALANTIOPSIS, Mitten. 

 Perianth, a descending fleshy bag. 

 Fruit terminal 

 Stems procumbent, stipulate. 



1. B. DiPLOPHTLLA, Mitten, in PL Tasm. ii., 230, t. 179, f. 5. 

 Stems short, |-lin. in length, creeping. Leaves 

 white, pellucid, membranous, cellular, closely imbricate, 

 divaricating, conduplicate, unequally 2-lobed, upper 

 lobe smaller, stipuliform, toothed and ciliate. Stipules 

 2-fid ; segments toothed and ciliate. Perianth termi- 

 nal, short, cylindric, purple. /. diplophylla, PL Antarct, 

 152, t. 64, f . 4. Gotschea, Nees. Syn. Hep. 624. PL 

 xvii. 



Bogs, Brown's River, and wet ground, Kermandie 

 Rivulet, Oldfield. Elliot Rivulet, Archer. Pork 

 Creek, B.A.B. 



