282 TASMANIAN HEPATICJE. 



1. F. Deummondii, Tayl. Syn. Hep. 566, 791 ; Fl. "N.Z.. 



169. Frond 1-l^in. long, linear-elongate, green or 

 purplish. Female i"eeeptacle conical, obtuse, papillose 

 with vesicular cells, almost naked below ; perianths 

 white and purplish, broadly ovate, sub 12-fid ; seg- 

 ments broad, fiat, cohering at the apex ; peduncle 2in. 

 long, slender, black-purple. 



Its fronds in size and appearance resemble those of 

 Rebo7tHa hemisphe^-ica, Raddz, and are generally stained 

 above of the deep purple that prevails on the under 

 surface of its congeners. 



Tasmania, Gunn. Cheshunt, Arclier. Brown's ■ 

 Eivei-, OUjield. (Australia, New Zealand.) 



2. F. AusTRALis, Hook. /. and Tayl. Fl. N'.Z. ii., 170. 



Fronds lin. long, linear, dichotomous, tender, 2-lobed 

 at the apex, below purple, with a few small lanceolate 

 obtuse scales. Female receptacle conico-hemispherical, 

 tubercled, sub-4-lobed, bearded below with long hairs ; 

 perianths ovate, 12-14 fid, pale segments cohering by 

 thin tips. Hook. Handbook, 547. 



Frond nearly 2in. long, 2 or 3 times dichotomously 

 divided, narrow base, pale green. Scales beneath 

 frond on each side of midrib, semi-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 purple. Female receptacle conico-hemisj)herical,. 

 divided into 4 blunt lobes, each covering base of a 

 calyptra, I'eceptacle wrinkled. Calyptra obconical 

 acute, tipped with a style, opening by slits. I^o calyx. 

 Capsule smaller than calyptra, globose, sj^ores- 

 angulato-rotundate, spiral filaments as long again 

 as spores. Peduncle thick or opaque below, pellucid 

 above, brownish below, 3 longitudinal grooves. The 

 male receptacle an elevated lenticular disc, duskj 

 purple, rough with prominent cells, cells divided by 

 membranous partitions. Parts of fructification 

 disproportionately small, differs from F. Driunmo7idiv 

 by greater size, more divided lobes, smaller and more 

 minutely coi-rugated female receptacles, absence of 

 purplish tinge in calyptra or on the scales of the 

 indusium, fineness of indusial scales, deeper sitviation 

 of peduncle, and less conical female receptacle. 

 Abridg. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1^:46, 574. 



Brown's River, Oldfield. Launceston, Miss E. 

 Oakden. (New Zealand.) 



3. F. TENEEA, Mitten, in Fl. N.Z. ii., 170. Frond ^in. long, 



l^in. broad, green, dichotomous; divisions oblong or 

 obcardate, deeply 2-fid, very tender, veined, fertile 



