102 BULLETIN DE l'herbier boissier. Fimhriaria, 



ex apice innovata, rami postici rariores. Costa lala, fronde 3-plo angus- 

 tior, piano convexa, alis atlenualis margine obtusis. Stratum anlicum 

 humile, quam costa duplo humilius, laxe cavernosum, lila libéra subnuUa. 

 Stomata magna, parum convexa, 6 cellulis triseriatis formata. Epidermis 

 antica tenerrima, haud incrassata. Squamae poslicse lenerrimae, oblique 

 ovatse, hyalinae longe appendiculalœ, appendiculo ubique 2-cellulas lalo, 

 purpureo, breviter acuminato, grandicellulari. Pedunculus ad 15 mm. 

 lo'ngus, subteres, humiliter coslatus, labiis crassis rotundatis, ceterum 

 nudus, hyalinus, in setate plus minus purpurascens, apice breviter bar- 

 batus, paleis occultis anguste lanceolatis. Carpocephala juniora viridia 

 conica lobis pedunculo appressis. in eetate brunneola, centro subplano 

 parum papuloso, lobi 4, cuneati, subrecte patuli, usque ad medium soluti 

 (radiis cuneatis, bene conspicuis) valde papulosi, subplani apice truncato- 

 rotundati valdeque decurvi; invohtcra duplo breviora, tenera. Perianthia 

 subpendula, hyalina, brevissima, involucrum parum superantia, facile in 

 lacinias soluta. Capsula maxima, dilute brunnea, vertice maxime incras- 

 sata. Sporœ brunneae 63 [x, reticulatim alatse, alis latis asperis. Elateres 

 270 [x, tenues, bispiri, spiris laxe tortis, validis. Andrœcia pedunculo 

 approximata, ostiolis hyalinis. 



, Hab. New Zealand (Golenso, Knight, Pétrie, Kirk, Helms, Cheeseman), 

 Tasmania teste Mitten, 



29. Fimbriaria dissoluta St. in Engler, Ostafrica Y, 

 p. 62. 



Monoica, major, dilute viridis, inlerdum omnino purpurascens. Frons 

 ad 3 cm. longa, 1 cm. lata, furcata, ramis masculis posticis numerosis, 

 apice ssepe vegetativis multiramosa, crassa, antice subplana, margine 

 abrupte acuta, poslice plano-convexa vel alis decurvis concava, alae crassse, 

 spongiosse, costa minima, vix prominula, fronde octuplo angustior, paucas 

 cellulas alta; Stratum anticum itaque totam frondem occupans, cavernis 

 magnis antice bullalim prominulis formatum. Stomata magna, 6 cellulis 

 sexserialis conflata; squamœ posticde purpurese, late oblique ovatse, appen- 

 diculo solitario aequilongo late lineari acuto, margine angulato. Peduncu- 

 lus vix 2 cm. longus, crassus, ubique nudus, purpureus subteres. Carpo- 

 cephala magna, hemisphserica, alte grosseque papulosa, lobls ad medium 

 solutis, centro capituli sequimagnis, validis decurvis, involucro sequilongo. 

 Perianthia late ovata, hyalina, acuta, ad medium exserta. Capsula hya- 

 lina, valida. Sporœ fulvse 72 jj., anguste alalse. Elateres 300 [j. pallide 

 flavescentes, bispiri, angusti, ubique sequilati, ssepe ramosi, spiris latis, 



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