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apiculate. Lobule inflated, oblong. Stipules minute, 

 ovate-rotund, bifid, not toothed. Pericbsetial leaves 

 oblong, apiculate, entire, whitish at the tips. 



The leaves have not enlarged cells at the base, as in 

 F. aterrima. 



Patches several inches wide, reddish-brown. Stems 

 nearly 2in. long, irregularly yet somewhat pinnately 

 branched ; branches erecto-patent, curving upwards. 

 Leaves concave, usually apiculate ; the auricle reaches 

 below the lower magin of the leaves, and is removed 

 from contact with the stem. Stipules quite entire, 

 with acutely bifid tops ; they are scarcely wider than 

 the stems. The barren perichsetia have a rounded 

 summit, which probably is altered in the calyciferous 

 plant ; the leaves are all erect, acuminate, and entire, 

 the two lateral are oblong, each with an inner lobe 

 whose margin is reflexed, the third or stipular leaf is 

 divided deeply into two lanceolate, apiculate, entire 

 segments. 



The present is nearly allied to F. aterrima, which is, 

 however, readily and exactly distinguished by its black 

 colour, by its less acuminate perichastial leaves, and 

 principally by its entire stipules. Lond. Journ. Bot. 

 1844 396. 



On the bark of Fagus, St. Patrick's River, Gunn. 

 On trees, Oven's Creek, Archer. On cliffs, Mount 

 Knocklofty ; Sawpit Creek, Mount Wellington ; 

 Wellington Falls. E.A.B. (l!^ew Zealand, Lord 

 Auckland's Grroup.) 



8. F. MEGALOCAEPA, HooTc. f. and Tayl. Stems procum- 



bent, loosely bi-pinnate. Branches slender. Leaves 

 imbricate, oblong-ovate, acute, recurved, entire. 

 Auricles oblong-clavate, parallel with the stem, a 

 subulate style interposed between the auricle and the 

 stem. Stipules minute, bifid. Perianth terminal, 

 oblong, flat above, obtusely keeled below, mouth 

 tubular ; perigonia round, sessile. 



Minute, scattered, brown. Stems scarcely lin. long. 

 - Shoots of equal breadth. Both perigonia and calyces 

 large in proportion to the shoots. It is more minute 

 and slender than F. exilis, Tayl., and readily dis- 

 tinguished by the style interposed between the auricle 

 and the stem. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1846. 404. 



Tasmania, on mosses ; Herb. Greville. 



9. F. DiPLOTA, Tayl. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1846. 405. Stems 



about 4 lines long, reddish, twisted, pi'ocumbent, sub- 



