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every respect with British examples, only that the 

 stems are' a little longer, and perianth a little shorter. 

 Fl. Tasm. ii., 233. 



Eivulet near Cummings' Head, Western Mountains, 

 Archer. Grass Tree Hill, Oldfield. (Great Britain). 

 S. DENSiFOLiA, Nees. S.vertehralis, GoUsc]ie,'Fl. Antaxct, 

 153. Stems 3-4in. high, erect, rarely branched. 

 Leaves olive-green or brown, distichous, crowded, ver- 

 tical, spreading, 2-fariously imbricate, 2-fid ciliated ; 

 lobes incurved, twisted. Syn. Hep. 78. Hook. Muse. 

 Exot. t. 36. PL xix. 



A most beautiful plant. There appears to be no 

 difference, excepting the paler colour, to distinguish 

 8. vertebralis from the present, and the perianth is, as 

 in other species of the genus, flattened, and at the apex 

 truncate. 



Tasmania, Gunn. (Lord Auckland's Group, on 

 trees, rare.) 



19. GOTTSCHEA, Nees. 

 Fruit terminal. 



Leaves with adherent lobe. 



Stems erect or sub-erect from a creeping"^ rhizome, simple, 

 rarely branched, very stout, fleshy and cellular. Leaves 

 vertical, very large, distichous, cellular and fleshy, 2-lobed, 

 complicate, serrate or pinnatifid, lobes sometimes lamellate. 

 Stipules rarely absent. Fruit terminal in the hollowed 

 apex of the stem. Involucre tubular, with a lacerate 

 mouth, or formed of imbricating stipular leaves, free or 

 connate with the tumid apex of the stem, together forming 

 the perianth. Calyptra ovate. Capsule on a stout fruit- 

 stalk, oblong or ovoid; elaters with 2 spiral filaments. 

 Antheridia in ventricose, imbricate, perigonial leaves similar 

 to the cauline. 



A magnificent genus, abundant in the damp gullies 

 of Tasmanian mountains, also in JSTew Zealand. 

 Stipules 0. 

 1. G. PiNNATiFOLiA, Nees. Fl. Tasm., p. 283. Fl. N.Z. ii., 

 149. Stems 2-3in. high. Leaves dull green, closely 

 imbricate, obliquely ovate-acuminate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, irregularly toothed and ciliate ; dorsal lobe nearly 

 as long as, but narrower than, the ventral ; involucral 

 toothed. Stipule 0. Perianth cylindric-oblong ; 

 mouth 5-lobed ; lobes toothed. Syn. Hep. 22. 



