BY R. A. BASTOW, P.L.S. 261 



Grrowing in dense pale green patches, several feet in 

 extent, stem from 2 to nearly 4in. in length and nearly 

 erect, and very much branched. Leaves divided into 

 two unequal portions, each of which is divided and 

 sub-divided in a comj)ound manner into thread-like 

 "branching segments. Stipules cleft into a number of 

 narrow lobes. JFruit arising from the forks of the 

 principal divisions of the stem. There ate no true 

 perichsetial leaves. The calyx widens towards the 

 mouth and is covered on the outside with minute 

 slightly branched hairs. Cook Brit. Hep. 17. 



Forest near Macquarie Harbour, Gunn. Port 

 Arthur, Oldfield. Ulverstone, Miss Ladder. Laun- 

 ceston. Miss OaJcden. Wellington Falls, JRodway. 

 R.A.B. (Australia, ^ew Zealand, Lord Auckland's 

 Grroup, Campbell's Island, India, Europe, America.) 



27. MASTIGOPHOKA, Nees. 

 Xeaves incubous, with an inferior lesser lobe, lobule plane, 

 fruit lateral, perianth contracted at the mouth, compressed 

 plicate. Quite different from Sendtnera in its lateral fruit, 

 perianth not overlaid, and free calyptra ; the habit is more 

 that of Madotheca. Mitten in Hook. Handbook Fl. N.Z. 

 754. 



1. M. FLAGGELLiFERA, Sendtnera flciggelUfera, Nees. Stems 

 2-3in. long, erect, pinnately branched ; branches atten- 

 uate, flaggeliform. Leaves greenish-brown, 2-farious, 

 horizontal, unequally 2-fid ; lobes conduplicate ; dorsal 

 larger, acute, often slightly toothed ; ventral more 

 lanceolate, entire or 2-fid. Stipules ovate, 2-partite, 

 rarely 4-ficl, toothed at the base. Syn. Hep. 242 

 Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 69. Fl. N.Z. ii., 153. PL xxi. 



Tasmania, Gtmn. Mount Wellington, B.A.B. (New- 

 Zealand.) 



28. FETJLLANIA, i2«^^«. 

 Fruit lateral, lobe inflated galeate. Perianth 3-6 plicate or 

 terete, with a tubular beak. Mitten. Stems prostrate or 

 creeping, flattened, usually purplish-brown. Leaves dis- 

 tichous, incubous, convex, quite entire, with a simple or 

 rarely double lobule at or near the base, which is erect or 

 ajDpressed, club-shaped, lunate, trumpet- shaped, or inflated. 

 Stipules sometimes rooting at the base, usually 2-fid. 



