264 TASMANIAN HEPATIC^. 



Stipules ovate-acuminate, bifid, dentate. Periantk 

 terminal, obcordate, trigonous, angles hairy, mouth, 

 tubular. 



Small tufts, whitish green. Stems ^m. long, 

 branched irregularly. Leaves closely imbricate, patent, 

 auricles horn-shaped, sub-reflexed. Involucral, erect, 

 dentate, with lanceolate lobule in small branches, 

 almost hiding the perianth ; angles of the perianth 

 spinous, curved various. 



This description agrees, excepting the angles of the 

 perianth, very nearly with F. prohoscidophora. FL 

 Tasm., 237. 



Tasmania, amongst other Hepaticss, HooJcer. On 

 trees with J^. deplanata, Mount Wellington, B.A.B. 



5. P. PKOBOSciDOPHOEA, Taijl. Stems vaguely pinnately 



branched. Leaves rotundo-ovate, entire ; auricles 

 lunate-galeate, acuminate, point decurved. Stipules 

 orbicular, bifid ; segments bi-tri- dentate ; involucral 

 ovate, acute, dentate ; auricles acuminate, margins 

 recurved to the base of the teeth, laciniate ; stipules 

 bipartite, laciniate, lanceolate, dentate. Perianth 

 obovate, obtuse, apiculate, dorsal convex, ventral one- 

 keeled, angles undulate. Lond. Journ. Bot., 1846, 

 402 ; Syn. Hep. 770. PI. xxviii. 



Brownish-red, whitish, scarious. Stems lin., leaves 

 of fragile texture. Auricles lunate-galeate from the 

 margin, beaked. Stipules about 6-toothed. Perianth 

 very fragile. 



Very nearly allied to F. Hampeana, but a larger 

 species, remarkable in the few specimens yet seen, foi' 

 the discoloration and scarious appearance of its leaves. 

 Its habit appears to resemble that of F. dilcdata. The 

 perianth is everywhere smooth, except the angles, 

 which are minutely undulate or sub-crispate. PI. 

 Tasm. 237 n. 



On the bark of trees. Circular Head, Hooker. Ches- 

 hunt, Archer. On bark of trees, Mount Wellington, 

 B.A.B. 



6. P. Hampeana, Nees. Fl. N.Z. ii., 160. Stems pinnate. 



Leaves pale green, imbricate, ^-vertical, sub-orbicular ; 

 lobule arched, deflexed, acuminate. Stipules sub- 

 orbicular, 6-8 toothed, and 2-fid. Syn. Hep. 426. 

 Tasmania, HooTcer. (Australia, New Zealand.) 



7. P. coNGESTA, KooJc. f. aud Tayl. Stems tufty, procum- 



bent, branched. Leaves imbricate, entire, ovate, sub- 



