Euceplialozia — Lembidium 57_ 



minutsB subulatee, raro longe lineares, rarissime bifidulte, interdum cum 

 bractea adjacente basi connatae. 



This curious species brings us into actual contact with jfungermanin, through the 

 § Gymnocolea Dum. of the latter. Its characters, however, preponderate on the side 

 of Cephalozia, viz. I, its obvious similarity and affinity to C. fl.uitans, from which it 

 is mainly distinguished by being acrocarpous ; 2, by its branches (besides the bifur- 

 cation of the stem) being postical and mostly flagelliform; 3, by the distinct, though 

 lax, polyphyllous involucres, and the constant presence of postical bracts, or brac- 

 teoles ; 4, by the peiianth being visibly (although very obtusely) trigonous upwards, 

 and rather wide-mouthed. 



In habit and foliage jf . Gymnocolea injlata is so wonderfully like this species on 

 tne one hand and C. Jiuitans on the other that we may well understand how all three 

 should have been confounded under the name '' y2ingermania inflata." Gymnocolea 

 has actually a few points in common with the Cephalozia:, and especially with the § 

 SubluridcE, whereof the most important are the solitary antheridia and the bilobed 

 leaves, with usually very obtuse lobes. Jung. G. tnrbinata var. acutiloba mihi, has 

 quite the habit and the tender widely-reticulate leaves of such a Cephalozia as C. 

 conniveiis; but both it and J. G. injlata differ essentially from Cephalozia, in the 

 variable insertion of the branches ; in the uppermost leaves being usually so remote from 

 the perianth, and so little modified as to scarcely merit being called " involucral ;" in 

 the turgid perianths, 3 — 5-plicate or corrugate only ?it the minute month — when barren 

 often quite astomous, (which is perhaps the reason why they have remained unfer- 

 tilised). 



Subgenus VI. LEMBIDIUM (Mitt.) 



In Hooker's Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, 754 



(1867). 



PlanhdcB Odoiitoschismati, et prsecipue 0. deitudato, sub- 

 similes, virides, pallidse rufulseve, csespitosse. Caules val- 

 idi succulenti, cellulis 8 in diametro, corticalibus 20 — 24- 

 seriatis, internis subconformibus, conflati, a basi rliizoma- 

 tosa plerumque flagellifera suberecti, parum ramosi, clado- 

 carpi, ramis omnibus posticis apice nutantibus. Folia in- 

 sertione transversa, vel plane succuba — raro subincuba, 

 lata, valida, cymbiformi-concava, apice bifidula, vel in 

 eadem stirpe varia, sc. Integra, bidentula, vel paucidenticu- 

 lata; cellulce medii folii mediocres leptodermes, inferiores 



