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flat, 6-7 lobed, very uniform, ciliated all round with stout red hairs extend- 
ing far beyond margin ; lobes slightly crenate-toothed, never recurved over 
sori; sori large, round, reddish, bifariously disposed, one on each lobe on 
middle of veins, within margin, mostly three pairs on a pinnule; veins few, 
simple, and once forked, extending quite to margin, clavate at tips. 
Hab. Skirts of woods, hills, between Norsewood and Danneverke, 
Waipawa County, 1882; W.C 
Obs.—A very graceful little fern of uniform growth and appearance, 
allied to Polypodium rugulosum and Hypolepis distans, but distinct from 
both. : 
Orper II. LYCOPODIACE E. 
Genus 2. Lycopodium, Linn. 
Lycopodium consimilis, sp. nov. 
Plant gregarious ; rhizome creeping, stout, white, glabrous ; stems slender, 
erect, leafy from the base, 7-10 inches long, simple and branched ; branches 
often again forked from near their bases; leaves nearly 8 lines long, squar- 
rose, flat, linear-acuminate (occasionally forked), broadest at base and 
coadunato-decurrent, finely striate and shining, obsoletely nerved, margins 
revolute, slightly lacerate and jagged at tips, tips obtuse; green when 
young, yellowish-green when mature, often purple-tipped ; spikes 5-6 on a 
braneh, lateral and sub-terminal, cylindrical, peduncled, 5-8 lines long, 
lowermost longest, narrow, acute; bracts large, spreading, finely striate 
and shining, deltoid-acuminate, sub-awned, slightly keeled towards apex, 
margins serrate and jagged and sub-revolute, apices jagged (after the 
manner of the leaves but stronger); yellow-brown ; capsules 8-lobed, turgid, 
with a small linear inner bracteole arising from base of capsule and em- 
bracing it. 
Hab. Stony ground, White Cliffs, Great Barrier Islet, 1888: Mr. C. 
P. Winkelmann. 
Obs,—A species having pretty close affinity with L. laterale, Brown. 
Orper IV. MUSCI. 
Genus 921. Encalypta, Schreber. 
C. nove-zealandia, sp. nov. 
Stems closely tufted, very short, about j an inch high. Leaves green, 
sub-erect, oblong, obtuse, margin entire, midrib very stout below, not 
excurrent, glabrous ; perichatial leaves broadly ovate. Fruit stalk 8-4 lines 
long, red; capsule linear-ovate, compressed, smooth, shining, reddish ; 
calyptra large, nearly 3 lines long, shining (satiny), finely striated, entire 
at the base (and, sometimes, finely toothed), tips smooth. a 
Hab. On ground, dry hills at Pohue, and at Petane, near Napier, 1882: 
Mr. A. Hamilton, 
