262 Transactions. — Botany. 



Hab. Bases of wet and shaded cliffs, sides of the Eiver Mangata- 

 whainui, near Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; May, 1884 : W.C. 



Obs. A species allied to S. melanoneuron and vulgaris (" Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst.," vol. xvi., pp. 351, 352), but distinct from both. 

 2. Symphyogyna flavo-virens, sp. nov. 



Plant terrestrial, densely gregarious and compact (like moss), stipitate, 

 erect, single, very light green. Frond small, once forked, diverging and 

 irregular, 3-4 lines long, 6-7 broad, sub-flabellate, each fork having 2-4 

 short segments, segments narrow, linear, about 1 line wide, round at tips 

 and deeply emarginate, slightly and distantly serrate, much undulated and 

 crisped, truncate and incurved at base concealing scale, not decurrent on 

 stipe ; cellules large, sub-quadrate-orbicular ; nerves same colour as frond 

 and not extending to base of notch. Stipe stout, flattish, sub-succulent, 

 light pink, f-1 inch long, very flexuous, 2-nerved, thickened and rooting at 

 base. Involucral scale on upper surface at main forks, 1-2 on a frond, very 

 small, ovate, laciniate. Calyptra large, erect, 4 lines long, cylindrical, 

 whitish, generally extending beyond margin of frond, mouth laciniate and 

 fimbriate. Seta slender, 1 inch long. Capsule linear-oblong, apiculate, 

 2 lines long, dark brown, finely longitudinally striate. 



Hab. Shady sides of hills, west side of Kuataniwha Plains, County of 

 Waipawa; 1884: Mr. H. Hill. 



Genus 32. Aneura, Dumort. 



1. Aneura polyantha, sp. nov. 



' Plant green, small, creeping, spreading, very flat, effuse, but often form- 

 ing a circular patch about l-l£ inches diameter, radiating from the centre : 

 fronds flattened, thickish, scarcely branched, pinnatifid, lobes rounded, 

 obtuse, crenately cut, generally broadest at apices and sub-flabellate. 

 Calyptras very numerous, 20-40 close together, arising from the centre of 

 the plant, sometimes 2-3-fascicled, above 1 line in height, brownish- 

 white, cylindrical, minutely and much tubercled. Seta nearly 1 inch long ; 

 capsule linear-oblong, brown, smooth, segments rather long with numerous 

 and large elaters at tips. 



Hab. On denuded rotten branches, in dense wet woods near Norsewood, 

 County of Waipawa ; May, 1884 : W.C. 



Obs. A pretty and very distinct little species : its numerous upright 

 calyptras standing so close together give it a curious sub-coralloid appearance. 



2. Aneura bijiora, sp. nov. 



Plant spreading, effuse, crisp, waved and rumpled, sub-imbricate ; 

 branchlets 1-1-J inches long, sub-obovate, somewhat pinnatifid, lobes sub- 

 rotund, round at tips, finely and regularly denticulate, with numerous short 

 brownish rootlets beneath. Calyptra 5 lines long, cylindrical, slightly 



