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3. Hookeria luteo°vivens, sp. nov. 



Plant largely gregarious, stout, sub-erect, 2-2-| inches high, dichoto- 

 mously branched above, branches sub-compressed, 5-6 lines wide, stem stout, 

 dark brown. Leaves sub-quadrifariously disposed, oblong-orbicular, 2 lines 

 long, obtuse and rounded at tip, dorsal and ventral smaller and more 

 orbicular, minutely papillose, thin, margins entire, light green, whitish 

 and yellowish at tips, slightly convex, densely imbricated ; nerve short, 

 forked, slender, green, largely cellular ; cellules (of leaf) large, sub-orbicu- 

 lar, smaller at margins and apex, larger and oblong at base ; perichsetial 

 erect, small, sub-rhombic, nerveless. Fruitstalk stout, l£ inches long, 

 smooth, flexuous, twisted, slightly sulcate, dark brown, thickened at base. 

 Capsule oblong, reddish, smooth (minutely reticulate under a lens), cernu- 

 ous, slightly tuberculate at base ; tubercles few and mostly above, round, 

 smooth ; cells of capsule large, oblong ; external teeth 4-lined longitudi- 

 nally, pretty closely trabeculate, strongly denticulate, reddish. Calyptra 

 large scabrid, whitish, ragged at base. 



Hab. Sub-pendulous on sides of shaded cliffs, in large patches, but rarely 

 fruiting, in forests, Seventy-mile Bush, County of Waipawa; 1883-84: W.C. 



Obs. A fine species having affinity with H. quadrifaria, but differing in 

 several particulars. 



4. Hookeria lojjhophora, sp. nov. 



Stems simple and slightly once-branched, flat, sub-erect, \\ inches high, 

 4 lines broad, thickly clothed between leaves with large red branched trans- 

 parent and jointed hairs. Leaves pale, densely imbricated, sub-quinque- 

 fariously disposed, the lateral ones spreading, crisp when dry, broadly 

 oblong-apiculate, 2 lines long, very thin, transparent, margined, upper 

 portion sharply serrulate ; nerve forked ; dorsal and ventral similarly 

 shaped but smaller ; cells lax, orbicular-hexagonal in the upper part of leaf, 

 larger and oblong-hexagonal in the central and lower part; perichaBtial 

 oblong, very acuminate. Fruitstalk springing from near the top of stem, 

 2-|- lines long, stout, pale, hairy ; hairs short, patent ; much fimbriate at 

 top ; fimbriae erect, crest-like, nodding over apophysis. Capsule apophy- 

 sate, inclined or horizontal, sub-obovate, turgid, red, finely reticulated, 

 shining, tuberculate at base ; apophysis dark brown. Calyptra not seen. 



Hab. In dry woods, hill country near Napier. 



Obs. A species allied to H. cristata. 



Order V. HEPATIC^. 

 Genus 25. Noteroclada, Taylor. 

 1. Noteivclada perpusilla, sp. nov. 



Plant very small creeping, densely compact, under 1 inch long, 2 lines 

 wide, branched, branches very short about \ inch long, deeply pinnatifid 

 or sub-pinnate, glabrous, glistening, light green ; midrib or stem stoutish, 



