260 TASMANIAN HEPATICiE, 



short terminal spikes. Perichsetia of a pair of erect 

 leaves with miequal acute segments, a,nd an oblong 

 bifid stipular one. Calyx exserted for half its length. 

 Allied to L. liamatifoUa, Nees ; yet the acumination 

 of one angle of the leaf is far shorter, and the leaves 

 more patent and less imbricated. PI. xxvii. 



Patches of very pale brownish-olive. Lond. Jour. 

 Bot. 1846, 393. Syn. Hep. 756. PI. Tasm. ii., 286, p. 

 180, f. 4. • _ 



A minute species whose place is amongst those with 

 a stipule at the base of every leaf, and generally with 

 a few enlarged cells, giving their leaves a more or less 

 regularly dotted appearance. 



Tasmania, creeping over Parmelia diatrypa, IIooTcer. 

 7. L. LATiTANs, HooJc.f. and Vayl. Flor. KZ. ii. 159. Stems 

 minute, creeping, slender, l-4th to l-3rd in. long. 

 Leaves pale green, distant, erecto-patent, ovate, acute, 

 or acuminate ; margins papillose ; lobule ovate, invo- 

 lute, half the size of the leaf ; involucral united with 

 the obovate involucral stipule. Stipules minute, 2-fid ; 

 segments lanceolate, obtuse. Syn. Hep. 345. PI. 

 Antarct., 166. 



Mount Wellington, B.A.B. 



26. TRICHOCOLEA, Nees. 

 Leaves capillary, multifid. 



Stems erect or inclined, tufted, much branched, very soft, 

 white and woolly to appearance. Leaves incubous and 

 distichous, but clothing the stem, deeply palmately divided, 

 the lobes laciniated. Stipules present. Pruit in the 

 forks of branches. Involucral leaves many, connate into 

 a hairy tube, which is adnate with the calyptra, coriaceous, 

 mouth truncate. Perianth 0. Capsule oblong, on a 

 slender f ruitstalk ; elaterswith 2 spiral fibres. Antheridia 

 in the axils of leaves on the upper side of the stem. 



A small genus of very beautiful Hepaticce, with tlie 

 leaves so much ciliate as to give the whole stem a 

 woolly appearance. Hook. Haadbbook Fl. N.Z. 627. 



1. T. TOMENTELLA, Nees. Stems 2-5in. long, 3-pinnate. 

 Leaves white, 2-partite ; segments capillary, multifid ; 

 ventral lobe smaller, inclined forwards. Stipules sub- 

 quadrate, 4-partite, capillaceo-multifid. Syn. Hep. 

 237. T. mollissima, PI. Antarct. 161 ; Syn. Hep. 237 ; 

 T. tomentella, yjavanica, Syn. Hep. 721. PI, xxviii. 



