BY R. A. BASTOW, F.L.S. 275 



I. S. ALTEBNiLOBUM, Hook. f. et Tayl. {Aneurd). Frond 

 dark green, 3-4in. long, flattened, vaguely branched; 

 branclies alternate, l-6tli in. broad, obtusely lobed, 

 crenate, tips rounded ; margin minutely and remotely 

 toothed. Calyptra setulose. Hook. Handbook Fl. N.Z. 

 543 ; Syn. Hep. 496. 



Blackish green. Frond 2in., vaguely branched, 

 narrow, procumbent, apes rounded and crenulate. 

 Calyptra covered with pale setse. Capsule linear- 

 oblong ; pedicel lin. Distinct from 6". pingue {Linn) 

 in its more regularly alternately lobed fronds, which 

 have their margins remotely denticulate, and which 

 appear to be of a thinner texture. Fl. Nov. Zeal, ii., 

 167. 



Fronds sparingly branched, crossing one another 

 but scarcely matted together, about Sin, long and 

 2 lines wide, of the colour of dried specimens of J, 

 viuliiJida,'L.,\\dbwmg a pinnate appearance from the 

 short, alternate, obtuse lobes, each of which is truly 

 bilobate at the summit with a very shallow sinus ; the 

 margin exhibits very minute teeth pointing in various 

 directions. The substance of the frond is very thin, 

 yet along the longitudinal axis it is carijose and has 

 the cells indistinctly separated, which is by no means 

 the case near the margin. Beneath there are brownish- 

 white rootlets limited to the central parts of the frond 

 and its lobes. 



This species belongs to the section of the genus 

 with nerveless fronds. By the greater breadth and 

 shortness of its lobes, as well as by the sinus at the 

 summit of each, it is at once distinguished from the 

 broadest specimens of /. viultifida. Lond. Jouru. Bot. 

 1844, 572. 



St. Patrick's Eiver and Acheron Eiver, Gnnn. 

 Clayey banks of the Kermandie Eivulet, I^orth-West 

 Bay Gully and elsewhere, on very wet banks, OldpMd. 

 (ISTev/ Zealand.) 



',2. S. PALMATUM, Mitten. Aneiwa pahnata Nees, Syn. 

 Hep. 498; Jimgermannia paliiiata, Hedwg. Theor. gen. 

 ed. i. t. 18. f. 93-95. Fronds pinnate, primary tiat, 

 procumbent ; branches ascending, pinnatifidly palmate ; 

 segments linear, truncate or obtuse. Fruit lateral ; 

 involucre shallow, torn. Calyptra tubercled. Hook, 



\ Handbook. Fl. KZ. 543. PI. xxxiii. 



Fronds usually crowded, two to three inches high, 

 ■divided paJmately into narrow lobes, sometimes creep- 

 ing. Calyptra clad with tubercles. , In old bogs. 

 Cook's Britt. Hep. 24. 



