268 TASMANIAN HEPATIC^. 



30. FOSSOMBEONIA, Baddi. 

 Complete perianth on upper side cf frond ; leaves angular. 

 Frond prostrate, creeping, lobed pinnately ; lobes succubous, 

 distichous, quadrate, 3-5 lobed, flaccid. Stipules 0. Fruit 

 terminal, or lateral by tbe growth of the stem. Involucre 

 of subulate leaves, adnate to the perianth, which is cam- 

 panulate ; mouth large, lobed. Calyptra pyriform. Capsule 

 on a short fruitstalk, globose, irregularly 4-valved ; elaters 

 short, with 2-3 spiral fibres. Antheridia naked on the 

 upper surface. Intermediate between the truly foliaceous 

 and the frondose Hepaticae. 



1. F. PUSiLLA, Nees. Minute ; stems jin. long, simple or 



forked. Leaves obliquely spreading, lower waved and 

 lobed, upper crisped, 3-4 lobed or angled. Perianth 

 obconic, toothed. Hook. Handbook, Fl. N.Z., 539 ; 

 Syn. Hep. 467 ; Fl. N.Z. ii., 163. PI. xxx. 



Either detached or in tufts or patches. Stems 

 prostrate, about a jin. in length, thick in proportion 

 to their size, and unbranched, rooting from the under 

 surface. Leaves closely set in two opposite rows, 

 squarish and crisped or waved, with the extremity cut 

 into from two to four irregular notches. Calyx large 

 and campanulate, with a cleft in the margin, and the 

 border lobed and waved. Five erect thread-like fila- 

 ments surround the base. 



Moist banks. Fruits in Autumn and Spring. 

 Cook's Britt. Hep. 22. 



Damp ground ; hillside, Woodburn, near Richmond, 

 and wet crevices of rocks ; gully by Brown's River, 

 Oldfield. Gathered also by Mr. Archer. Launceston, 

 Miss Oakden. (Australia, New Zealand, America, 

 Great Britain, Canary Islands, South Africa, Ker- 

 guelen's Island.) 



2. F. iNTESTiNALis, Tayl. Frond simple, prostrate, linear, 



flexuous. Lobes imbricate, ascending, alternate, tumid, 

 convolute, incised and lobed ; perianth campanulate,. 

 ere n ate. 



Fronds 3-4 lines long. Roots purple. Lobes when 

 moistened, are very tumid, and have their incurved 

 margins concealed. Capsule spherical, bursting 

 irregularly. Seeds muricate, very black. Elaters 

 longer than in F. ptisilla, Nees ; besides the calyx is 

 far smaller, and the convoluted lobes give to our plant 

 a peculiar habit. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1846. 408 ; Syn, 

 Hep. 469. 785. 



Cheshunt, Archer. (ISTew Zealand.) 



