276 TASMANIA^ HEPATIC^. 



Clieshunt, Archer, Distillery Creek, Launceston, 

 Miss Oakden. Wellington Falls, Rodway, Gullies 

 Mount Wellington, R.A.B. (New Zealand, Europe.) 



3. S. MTTLTiPiDUM, Mitten. Aneura vmltifida, Dumart. 



Syn. Hep. 496 ; Jungermamiia micltifida, Linn. ed. 2. 

 1,602. Frond pinnately multifid or decompound ;. 

 primaiy bi-convex, rigid ; branches pectinate, hori- 

 zontal, linear ; involucre lateral in the primary or 

 secondary branches, turbinate, fleshy. Calyptra tuber- 

 cled. Hook. Handbook, Fl. N.Z., 543 ; Hook. Brit. 

 Jung. t. 45 ; Fl. Antarct. 167 et 444. PI. sxxiii. 



Generally growing in thick crowded tufts. Fronds 

 from \ to If in. long, usually erect, but sometimes 

 prostrate, much divided in an irregular manner, 

 nerveless, fleshy, and of a pale green colour. Fruit 

 rising from beneath the margin, but not at the apex. 

 Calyx very short, cup-like, and toothed at the edge. 

 Capsule large, brown, and furrowed. Very variable. 

 Wet places. Fruits in spring. Cook's Britt. Hep. 24. 



St. Patrick's Eiver, Gtmn. Mount Wellington, 

 R.A.B. (Australia, New Zealand, Lord Auckland's 

 Group, Campbell's Island, Europe, America, India, 

 Fuegia.) 



4. S). Fii^GVE, Mitten. Aneura pinguis, Dumart. Syn. Hep. 



493 ; Jungermannia pijiguis, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2. ii., p. 

 1,602. 



Growing in loose patches. Fronds one or two inches 

 long, often overlapping, and of an oblong figure, 

 narrowest at the base, either simple or with one or two 

 large lobes, the margins of all cut into smaller lobes, 

 swollen in substance but nerveless. Fruit arising 

 from the under surface of the frond near the edge. 

 Calyx nearly hemispherical, exj)anded at the mouth 

 and fringed. Capsule red-brown and furrowed. Damp 

 ravines and bogs. Fruits in summer. Cook's Britt. 

 Hep. 23. PI. xxsiii. 



Springs, Mount Wellington, and on muddy banks, 

 Oldfield, (Australia, Europe.) 



6. S. ALcicoENE, Mitten. Fl, Antarctica, ]39 pi. 160, f. 8; 

 Aneura alciornis, Hook. f. et. Tayl. Lond. Journ_ 

 Bot. iii., 479. Csespitose. Frond erect, linear, alter- 

 nately and bi-pinnately lobed ; lobes linear, sharp,- 

 subtruncate. Calyptra lateral, linear, whitish, scabrous, 

 apex lacerate. PI. xxxiii. 



Fronds tufted among other Hepaticse, or Musci,, 

 about lin. high ; the younger parts of a lively grass- 



