266 TASMANIAN HEPATIC.^. 



pinnate, pinnules lax ; leaves imbricate, amplexical, 

 sub-quadrate-rotundate, entire, apices recurved, dorsal 

 margin gibbous ; very thin ; auricle oblong from a 

 narrow base, rising from the base of the leaf ; a very 

 short lanceolate style interposited between the stem, 

 and the auricle, the style scarcely more than half as 

 long as the auricle. Stipules distant, rotundo-ovate, 

 bifid, entire. The cells of the leaves near their junction 

 with the stem are much larger than elsewhere. PI. ii. 

 f. 3. PI. sxix. 



On rocks. Proctor's Road, creeping amongst 

 F. falciloha. B.A.B. 



10. ¥. HBFTANS, Miffen. Fl. N.Z. ii., 161. 1. 104. f. 4. Stems 



small, slender, |in. long, creeping, pinnate. Leaves 

 dark olive brown or red or blackish, loosely imbricate, 

 spreading, orbicular-oboate; lobule very large, occupying 

 the centre of the leaf and ^ smaller, compressed, semi- 

 orbicular, black ; involucral with a lanceolate 1 dentate 

 lobule. Stipules small, cuneate, 4 toothed ; involucral 

 2-fid, 1-dentate on each side. Perianth oblong-obovate, 

 mucronate ; dorsal face flat, 2-keeled ; ventral convex, 

 4-keeled ; keels toothed above. PL xxix. 



On very wet and rotten wood ; Goat Hills, New 

 Norfolk, Oldfield. On rocks Mount Nelson, M.A.B. 

 (New Zealand.) 



11. P. GrAUDicHATiDii, Moiit. Aunals des Se. Natur. 1836. p. 



13, t. 2 f. 2 ; Syn. Hep. 435. 



Tasmania, Admiral d'UrviUe, in Ileri. Montague. 



29. POLYOTIJS, Gottscle. 

 Pruit lateral, lobule inflated, galeate. 



Involucral leaves overlying each other, adnata below. 

 Stems prostrate, pinnately branched. Leaves incubous, 

 closely imbricate, auricled, the aui-icle often spinous, with a 

 lamina of various shape between it and the blade of the 

 leaf. Stipules usually 4-fid, the middle lobes clavate. 

 Pruit lateral or axillary. Involucre of many confluent 

 leaves. Perianth 0. Calyptra confluent with the involucre, 

 its apex free, bearing sterile pistils near the apex. Capsule 

 oblong, on short fruitstalk ; elaters with 2 spiral fibres. 

 Antheridia solitary in the axils of terminal perigonial 

 leaves. 



A small Australian, New Zealand, and Antarctic genus, 

 not found in the Northern Hemisphere. Hook. Hand- 

 book, 628. 



