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lower lip which is bent downward. The condition, however, is equally 
common in S. campanularia. 
The gonangia are large and pear-shaped, but apt to be very irregular 
in outline; the largest which I saw were simply rounded at top; shorter 
ones were more or less truncate, which is presumably a matter of develop- 
ent. They taper down) to a very narrow base, smaller than that of the 
hydrotheca-stalks, and those which I saw were mostly erect, while those of 
S. campanularia are more often decumbent. 
Specimens from Professor Chilton were very perfectly preserved, the 
регіваге not having suffered the slightest contraction; one of Coughtrey's 
specimens, from the Dunedin Museum, had been dried, and, as always 
happens in such circumstances, the thick perisarc of the hydrothecae was 
much shrivelled and distorted. The hydrothecae were somewhat shorter 
than in Professor Chilton's specimens, but this may be more or less 
Fic. 4.—Silicularia bilabiata (Coughtrey). х 40. 
the effect of the general shrinkage. The gonangia were on Coughtrey's 
specimen, and probably some of the irregularity which characterizes them . 
is due to their having been dried, though they appear to have suffered less 
than the hydrothecae and their pedicels. The latter seem to have been 
ii mex thin-walled, a condition accentuated no doubt by shrinkage due 
o drying. 
Hilgendorf has classed Eucopella campanularia as a synomy 
u 
m of ТҮ 
C. bilabiata, but this is erroneous, and there is scarcely a doubt that —— 
/ Г campanularia: 
Loc.—Timaru (Coughtrey): Tomahawk, Dunedin (Hilgendorf): Sumner 
(Chilton): Oamaru rocks (Morris). 
914, p. 9. 
Hypanthea asymmetrica Hilgendorf, 1897, p. 212: Hartlaub, 1901, p. 366. 
Silicularia campanularia Bele, Tolia EXE o o p 
? Eucopella reticulata Hartlaub, 1905, p. 569. 
Hilgendorfs account of Hypanthea asymmetrica and Н. bilabiata 
3 is 
unsatisfactory ; во far as features of specific importance are Concerns — 
