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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 ; sort 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. 



Oeder II. LYCOPODIACE^. 

 Genus 2. Lycopodram, 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 3 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 

 branch, 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 3-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, 1883 : Mr. C. 

 P. Winkelmann. 



Obs. — A species having pretty close affinity with L. laterale, Brown. 

 Order IV. MUSCI. 

 Genus 21. Encalypta, Schreber. 

 C. novcc-zealandice, sp. nov. 



Stems closely tufted, very short, about ^ an inch high. Leaves green, 

 sub-erect, oblong, obtuse, margin entire, midrib very stout below, not 

 excurrent, glabrous ; perichmtial leaves broadly ovate. Fruit stalk 3-4 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. 



Hab. On ground, dry hills at Pohue, and at Petane, near Napier, 1882: 

 Mr. A. Hamilton. 



