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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, 2-3-4-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 \-\\ 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 1-1^ inches long, dichotomous, sub-imbricate ; branchlets -J— | 

 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 J 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. 



