•278 TASMANIAN HEPATIC^, 



9. S. cocHLEATUM Mitteii. Riccia cochkata, Crypt. Antarct. 

 56, PL &Q, f. 5, Hook. f. and Tayl. Lond. 

 Joum. Bot. iv. 96. Frond short, very thick and 

 fleehy, loosely cffispitose, procumbent, creeping, pin- 

 natifidly irregularly lobed ; lobes ovoid, cochleate, 

 concave, very thick and fleshy, with upturned or 

 connivent margins, 2-lobed at the apex, loosely cellular 

 and spongy internally. Calyptra fleshy, oylindric, 

 setulose. Hook. Handbook Fl. N.Z. 5M. PI. xxxiv. 



This species seems always recognisable by the pale, 

 slightly thickened row of marginal cells. PI. Tasm. 

 ii., 240, n. 



The Falls, Cheehunt, Archer. Lord Auckland's 

 Group. 



37. EICCIA, Micheli. 



Often floating on water, fruit embedded in substance of frond. 

 Small, frondose, terrestrialor aquatic, often of thick con- 

 sistence. Fronds simple or divided, usually orbicular or 

 oblong, often stellate. Inflorescence monoecious or dioecious. 

 Perianth 0. Fruit immersed in the fi'ond. Involucre 0. 

 Calyptra cohering with the globose capsule, and crowned 

 with a persistent styliform apex ; columella and elaters 0. 

 Spores angular ; antheridia imbedded in the frond. 



E. NATANS, Lin7i.. Fl. N.Z. ii., 173. Fronds floating 

 pale yellow above, bordered with dull purple, obcor- 

 date, channelled, simple or proliferous from the notches, 

 with long purple serrate fimbrise below ; substance, 

 cavernous. Syn. Hep. 606. PI. 1. 



Different from the usual British states of the species, 

 being much more thickly covered beneath with much 

 elongated almost black purple fimbriae. The upper 

 surface is pale yellow green, boi'dered with deep 

 purple. 



I Floating on Black Lagoon near Tamar Heads, Mhs 

 E. Oakden. (Australia, New Zealand, Europe, 

 America). 



38. TAEdlOJSriA, Micheli. 

 Fruit terminal on the under side of the frond. 



Involucre 2-valved. 



Fronds apprcssed to the ground, rooting, thick and coriaceous, 

 linear, forked, porous on the upper surface, scaly on the 



