BY K. A. BASTOW, F.L.S. 283- 



cuaeate ; below green or brownish. Female receptacle 

 small, rather convex, 3-4 lobed, naked below, rugulose ; 

 margin crenulate ; perianths small, shortly conic, 8-fid ; 

 segments pale brown, ovate-lanceolate, separate at the 

 apices. PI. xxxv. 



The deep purj^le colovir so common in these plants is 

 almost absent in this species, the older specimens of 

 which become pale brown. 



. Tasmania, Archer. (N"ew Zealand.) 



42. ANTHOCEEOS, Micheli. 



Frond fleshy, ■without scales beneath. 

 Fronds growing flat on the ground, more or less orbicular, 

 radiating, thick or opaque, green. Margins lacerate or 

 crenate. Inflorescence monoecious. Fruit on the upper 

 surface of the frond. Involuci'e tubular. Perianth 0. 

 Calyptra conical. Capsule pedicelled, of 2 narrow linear 

 erect lobes ; columella filiform ; elaters flesuous ; spiral 

 fibres imperfect or ; spores muricate. Antheridia sessile,. 

 in cup-shaped involucre. Gemmse also immersed in the 

 substance of the frond. 



1. A. Lffivis, Z/;/;/. Fl. KZ. ii., 171. Frond l-2in. long,. 



flat, radiately branched ; lobes crenate, smooth, nerve- 

 less, tender ; involucre cylindric ; mouth obliquely 

 truncate, with broad scarious edges. Syn. Hep. 586. 

 JDendroceros leptohymenius, Hook. f. et. Tayl. iu Lond, 

 Jour. Bot. 1844, 575 ; Syn. Hep. 580 ; Pellia car7iosa\: 

 I.e. 576 ; Syn. Hep. 490. A. ptmctatits (?) Hook. f. et. 

 Tayl. in Fl. Antarct. i. 168. PL xxxv. 



Near Campbell Town, Gimn. In very wet places, 

 under dripping water ; Back Eiver Gully, Oidfield. 

 West End Eivuletj^/rZ/^r. Wellington Falls, i?.^^.^. 

 (Australia, New Zealand, Campbell's Island, Europe, 

 America) . 



2. A. DENTicuLATus, LindeiiMrg. Lehm. pug. PI. Nov. x. 



p. 25 ; Muell. Frag. Phyt. Austral., p. 69. 

 Tasmania, Mount Wellington, Gidliver. 



3. A. LONGispiEus, Carr et Pear. See description and- 



illustration in the current proceedings of the Eoyal 

 Society, Tasmania. PI. ii. f, 7. PL xxxv. 

 St. Crispin's Well, Mount Wellington, R.A.B. 



