246 TASMANIAN HEPATIC^. 



Very nearly allied to /. madida in size, colour, and 

 habit, but witli wider and less deeply notched leaves, 

 which, are also more distant and divaricate. ■ Fl. Tasm. 

 232, p. 179. f. 8. 



Arthur's Lakes, Gunn, Archer. (New Zealand.) 

 Summit o£ Mount Wellington, B.A.B. 

 3. I. INTORTIFOLIA (Mitten). Jungermannia intortifolia, 

 HooJc, f. and Tayl. Crypt. Antarct., p. 38, PL 64, f. 1. 

 Stems 1| to 2in. high, erect, flaccid, sparingly branched. 

 Leaves purplish, spreading, imbricate, flaccid, cellular, 

 very concave, ventricose, amplexicaul, orbicul&r, oblong, 

 unequally, 2-4 fid, rarely entire ; segments acuminate, 

 incurved, toothed. Stipules imbricate, large, orbicular, 

 very concave, emarginate, 2-fid or toothed- membranous. 

 PL xviii. 



On rocks, rivulet near Cummin gs' Head, Western 

 Mountains, Archer. (New Zealand, Campbell's Island.) 



18. SCAPANIA, Lindenlerg. 

 Leaves complicate, stipules 0. 



Stems erect or ascending. Leaves vertical, distichous, concave 

 or complicate, 2-lobed. Stipules 0. Fruit terminal. Invo- 

 lucral leaves 2, larger than the cauline. Perianth com- 

 pressed parallel to the direction of the leaves, mouth entire 

 or ciliated. Capsule on a slender fruitstalk, ovoid ; elaters 

 with 2 spiral fibres. Antheridia in the forks of 2-lobed 

 perigouial leaves. 



A small genus, native of the north and south tem- 

 perate zones, rare in the tropics. Hook, Handbook. 

 PL KZ., p. 511. 



1. S. OBTTJSiFOLiA, Jungerviannia ohtusifolia, Hook. Brit. 

 Jung. t. 26. J. domestica, Gottsche, Plantce Muellereance. 

 Growing in dense tufts of a pleasant green colour, two 

 or three inches in diameter, firmly attached by thick 

 roots. Stems nearly erect, seldom much above a 

 quarter of an inch in length, and unbranched. Leaves 

 in two opposite rows, closely overlapping so as to 

 conceal the stem, and divided half-way down into two 

 unequal lobes, both rounded at the apex, and smooth 

 at the edges. Calyx large, contracted, and toothed 

 at the mouth. Capsule egg-shaped. Cook's Brit. 

 Hep., p. 7. PL xix. 



These specimens (Tasmanian) appear to agree ia 



