BY E. A. BASTOW, F.L.S. 257 



base, whilst its top lies flat on the inner part of the leaf, 

 and has a single angle pointing outwards. The peri- 

 gonia occur in the course of the shoots, and are 

 remarkably long and large in proportion to the size of 

 the stems. The present is the minutest of the Badtdce 

 yet observed, and is readily distinguished by its 

 peculiar perigonia.— *^Dr. Taylor. 



It is just possible that it is the male plant of B. 

 Novce SoUandice. Fl. Tasm. p. 235. 



On Metzgeria furcata, Soolcer. 



E. Nov^ HoLLANDi^, Hampe ; G. L. and N. Syn. Hep., 

 p. 254. 



Tasmania, Serb. Stuart, Gottsche (PlantcB Mulleri- 

 ance), Australia. 



E„ Physoloba, Mont, Fl. JST.Z. ii., 154. Stems procum- 

 bent, rigid, flexuous, much pinnately branched. Leaves 

 yellow-green or brown, sub-vertical, orbicular, convex, 

 quite entire ; apex inflexed ; lobule large, inflated 

 below the apex, retuse or emarginate. Perianth ter- 

 minal or axillary, long, cochleariform, truncate. Syn. 

 Hep. 254. Mont. Yoy. au Pole Sud. 256 t. 17 f. 4. 

 L. aquilegia, Hook. f. and Tayl. in Lond. Jour. Bot., 

 1846, 291. PI. xxvi. 



Near Cumming's Head, Western Mountains, J.rc/ier. 

 (New Zealand, Lord Auckland's Group.) 



25. LEJEUNIA, Libert. 



Incubous lea-^ es with inferior lesser lobe. 



Lobule plane, fruit terminal. 



Perianth obovate, 3-6 plicate, mouth a tubular beak, 31itten. 

 Stems prostrate or creeping. Leaves distichous, incubous. 

 Stipules usually present. Inflorescence dioecious. Fruit 

 lateral or terminal on proper branches. Involucral leaves 

 2, 2-lobed. Perianth ovoid or obovoid, terete or angled; 

 angles winged or crested ; mouth 3-4 lobed. Calyptra 

 obovoid, persistent, bursting below the aj^ex. Capsule on 

 short fruitstalk, globose, pale, 4-cleft halfway; elaters 

 adhering to the valves, erect, upper end truncate with 1 

 spiral fibre. Antheridia as in Frullania, on proper 

 branches. 



A very large tropical and temperate genus, of which 

 236 species were published iu the " Synopsis Hepati- 

 carum" in 1844, and many have been added since. 

 Hook. Handbook N. 2 Fl. 531. 



The stipules are sometimes absent. Mitten. 



