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rugulose, broader towards top, hairy about tip ; hairs short, patent ; mouth 

 small, contracted, much tuberculated at base, springing from frond in pairs, 

 greenish-white at first, brownish-white in age. 



Hab. Epiphytical on Hookeria (sps.) and other mosses and Hepatic®, 

 but easily separated ; growing low down in sides of dark water-courses, hill 

 forests, near Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1883-84 : W.C. 



Obs. A species near to A. orbiculata, and imbricata, mihi : " Trans. 

 N.Z. lust.," vol. xvi., p. 359. 



Genus 39. Anthoeeros, Micheli. 

 1. Anthoeeros pellucidus, sp. nov. 



Plant prostrate, spreading, effuse, 2-6 inches diameter, densely imbri- 

 cate, thin, transparent, fragile, crumpled, minutely tuberculate, light green, 

 cells large, nerveless, with a few very fine rootlets at the extreme base : 

 fronds J-1J inches broad at top, mostly narrow at base, sub-flabellate, more 

 or less branched or deeply laciuiate at top, irregularly lobed ; lobes largely 

 crenate or rounded at tips, margins free, sub-erect, finely and irregularly 

 torn and sub-fimbriate ; some fronds are very narrow, -J-2 lines wide, pin- 

 natifid (like Aneura multifida). Involucre stout, conical, finely tubercu- 

 lated near base, generally 3 or more arising from centre of a frond, 1-2 

 lines high, lips sub-bivalve, scarious. Capsule linear very narrow, almost 

 filiform, arcuate, 3 lines long, light brown, dehiscing centrally on both sides 

 and then margins reflexed, cohering at tips ; columella exceedingly fine ; 

 spores light brownish-green ; elaters large, numerous. Gemmae, little 

 oblong dark green bodies immersed and scattered in the frond. Appar- 

 ently the seeds aud filaments are at first contained in a thin transparent 

 membrane around the columella, which is soon ruptured. 



Hab. On rotten logs in dark wet woods, spreading over and adhering 

 to other small Hepaticce, mosses, dead twigs, etc., near Norsewood, County 

 of Waipawa; 1882-84: W.C. 



Order VII. LICHENES. 

 Genus 5. Sphserophoron, Persoon. 

 1. Sphcerophoron vividulnm, sp. nov. 



Thallus sub-csespitose, with a few small scales at the base, erect, flat, 

 1-1J inches high, main stem 1-3 lines wide and unbranched below, sub- 

 palmate and dichotomous above, very smooth and slightly convex on the 

 upper surface, rugulosely pitted on the lower, edges entire, whitish beneath, 

 light green above when living, but a dull olive-green when dried ; upper 

 branchlets numerous, very narrow ^— ^ inch wide, sub-linear-clavate, 

 ultimate segments cuneate-truncate, obconic, and spathulate, narrower at 

 bases, having a sub-articulated appearance like some species of Corallina. 

 Apothecia very small on slightly raised hemispherical receptacles just below 



