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green, the lower and older brownish, and turning 

 black in drying. The lobules rise to nearly the same 

 level, consequently the lower branches have a dichoto- 

 mous appearance ; the lobes are widest when they 

 are about to divide into lobules ; these are linear, 

 short, and end abruptly. The Calyptrse issue from 

 the sides of the plants, and rise to such a height that 

 their tops came on a level with the tufts of the fronds ; 

 the calyptrse are very long, pale, carnose, and rough 

 with projecting points. Pedicel about fin. long. 

 Capsule cylindrical. 



This species is allied to L. pahnata (Hoffm.), but is 

 far more compounded in its divisions, which are pinnate 

 and not palmate, the lobules are far narrower, and the 

 calyptrae are born higher up on the frond. 



On rocks and in slowly-running streams. Mount 

 Wellington and elsewhere. Oldfield, Archer. 



6. S. CEASSUM, {SchtvcBgr, Alitten in Fl. N.Z. 167.) Aneura 



crassa, Nees ; Syn. Hep. 500. Frond thick and leathery, 

 almost homy, blackish-green, procumbent, pinnatifid ; 

 segments obtuse. 



Of a very rigid and opaque texture, and of a brown 

 or blackish-green colour ; the stems are branched in a 

 pinnate manner, and when dry the plants are almost 

 homy. Fl. Nov. Zeal. 167. 



Acheron River and Arthur's Lake, Gtinn. Cheshunt, 

 Archer. Wellington Falls, R.A.B. (New Zealand.) 



7. S. PINNATIFIDT7M, J////^;^. Ancura pinnatzfida Nees,^yn. 



Hep. 495. Frond simple or pinnatifid, |flat or 

 channelled ; branches horizontal, dilated at the apex, 

 2-pinnatifid, or toothed, obtuse. Calyptra smooth, 

 puberulous. Hook. Handbook, Fl. N.Z. 543. PI. xxxiv. 

 St. Patrick's River, and in a rivulet at an altitude 

 of 5,000ft., Western Mountains, (7m;/;2o Oven's Creek, 

 Archer. Mount Wellington, R.A.B. (Australia, New 

 Zealand, Europe, America, Bourbon, India, Malay 

 Islands. 



8. S. ERiocAULUM, MUtcn. Metzgeria eriocaula, Syn. Hep. 



505 ; Jungermannia eriocaula, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 72. 

 Aneura erzocaula. Fronds 3-6in. long, flexuous, pinnati- 

 fid, pubescent; primary, creeping, compressed; branches 

 alternate, ovate, 2-pinnatifid ; divisions linear, obtuse, 

 glabrous, costate, brown. Calyptra sub-axillary, 

 oblong-cylindric, fleshy, glabrous, rather rough. Easily 

 distinguished by its short pubescence. PI. xxxii. 

 Back River G-uUy, Oldfield. (New Zealand). 



