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crenulate, apex obtuse, sometimes (though rarely) emarginate and trifid, 
when trifid bearing 2 peduncles, light green, minutely and regularly 
papillose, with a continuous conspicuous purple band-like margin ; midrib 
below stout, turgid, with diverging purple crescent scale-like markings, and 
a few fine hairy rootlets. Female receptacle sub-conical obtuse, 2-8-4-lobed, 
purplish-brown dotted with whitish spots, scarcely subpapillose, naked 
below except a few long white straggling hairs within perianths and imme- 
diately around apex of peduncle ; perianths white, elliptic-conical, sometimes 
orbicular in outline and much depressed at tips, 12-14-fid ; segments linear, 
flat and wrinkled, cohering at apex, hyaline and shining, netted, cellules 
irregular, sub-oblong-quadrangular ; peduncle 3-14 inches long, subflexuose, 
finely striated, shining, tetrangular and purple below, cylindrical and white 
above; spores deltoid- and rhombic-orbicular with netted intra-margins, 
edges entire. 
Hab. On pebbly (conglomerate) and limestone strata, shaded banks, 
hills, various localities, Hawke’s Bay 1870-83 : W.C. At Petane, near 
Napier, September, 1883: Mr. A. Hamilton. 
Obs.—An elegant little species, pretty closely allied to the other 
described N.Z. species of the genus, particularly F. drummondii, from 
which, however, it is quite distinct. 
Fimbriaria pallide-virens, sp. nov. 
A very small plant of densely compact growth and habit. Fronds 
much branched, tender and sub-succulent, undulate, very slightly 
papillose, light green above, whitish-green below, midrib stout with nume-. 
rous fine rootlets, cellules appearing (when held between the eye and 
the light) as if disposed in feathery falcate lines diverging from midrib ; 
branches 1-14 inches long, dichotomous, sub-imbricate ; branchlets 4-3 
inches long, 3-4 lines wide, oblong and broadly obovate, bi-tri-fid at tips, 
margins finely crenulate and hyaline. Female receptacle small, convex, 
smooth, pale green, with minute and faint white dots, 2-3-4-lobed, lobes 
broad, spreading, obtuse and retuse, margins entire or slightly sinuate, 
naked below; perianths globose, 6-9-fid, segments small, distant, deltoid- 
acuminate, sometimes two are joined together from base slightly diverging 
at tips, scarious, soon expanding ; capsule large, early exserted, brown-black, 
bursting circumcissilely ; spores rather large, orbicular and sub-stelliform, 
muricated ; peduncles 1-1} inches high, rather stout, purple below, greenish- 
white above, sub-erect, flexuous. 
Hab. Among and creeping over mosses, Hawke's Bay ; Glenross, Mr. 
D. P. Balfour, growing densely: Petane, Mr. A. Hamilton. 
Obs,—A strikingly pretty little species, nearly allied to F. tenera, 
Mitt. 
