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port, Kermandie Eivulet, and Mount Wellington, 

 Oldfield. Jackey's Plain Creek, Archer ; gathered also 

 by Stuart. On rocks, Proctor' s-road, Mount Nelson, 

 Cascades Eivulet, and Springs, Mount Wellington, 

 Miss 8. Gerard, A. J. Taylor, B.A.B. 



F. DEPLAR-ATA, Mitten. PI. N.Z. ii., 161, t. 104, f. 3. 

 Stems lin. long, pinnate. Leaves red-brown, 

 diverging, imbricate, orbicular- ovate or oblong ; apex 

 rounded, incurved ; lobule large, falcate, recurved, 

 acuminate ; involucral ovate, acute, entire or toothed, 

 with a lanceolate toothed lobule. Stipules suborbicu- 

 lar, shortly 2-fid; involucral elongate, laciniate. 

 Perianth obcordate, elongate, flattened at the top, 

 retuse, mucronate, smooth. Hook. Handbook PI. N.Z. 

 536, PL xxviii. 



At the roots of trees. Brown's Eiver Gully, and 

 Johnny's Creek, Oldfield. Cheshunt, Archer. On trees, 

 Mount Wellington, growing with F. monocera, from 

 which it is at once distinguished by its flat, smooth 

 perianth, F. monocera having a spiny one (Pearson), 

 B.A.B. (New Zealand). 



P. CLAVATA, Hoolc. f. and Tayl., Lond. Journ. Bot., 

 1845-88, G. L. et. N. Syn. Hep. 428. Stems pro- 

 cumbent, vaguely subpinnately branched, branches 

 thickened at the apices. Leaves imbricate, rotundo- 

 oblong, convex, entire, inferior lobe large, galeate, 

 acuminate, decurved. Stipules round, 2-fid, sub-dentate 

 Calyx almost immersed, obovate, biplicate, apex tubular; 

 perichoetial leaves toothed on the ventral margin. 



Scarcely quarter of an inch long, pale green, some- 

 times brownish purple. Stipules large, their emargi- 

 nation shallow and rounded. Auricles large compared 

 with the leaves. The calyx, rising little out of the 

 perichsetium, is widest near the mouth, below which it 

 is rather suddenly contracted. The lateral perichaetical 

 leaves have, besides a segment corresponding to the 

 auricle of the leaf, an inner one which is lanceolate 

 and dentate. Allied to F. trinervis L. et. L., but this 

 is of a dark brown colour, has a more exserted three 

 nerved calyx, the auricles are less acuminated, and the 

 stiptiles more entire. Tayl. in PL Tasm. n. p. 237. 



On Nephroma cellulosa Tasmania, Herh. Tayl. 



P. MONOCEEA, SooTc. f et. Tayl. Lond. Journ. Bot,, 

 1845-89 ; Syn. Hep. 418. Stems entangled, prostrate, 

 vaguely branched. Leaves oblong-ovate, roundish, 

 plane, entire ; inferior lobe galeate, deflexed spiniform. 



