94 FRANZ STEPHANI AND W. W. WATTS. 
HEPATICAD AUSTRALKES. 
By Dr. FRANZ STEPHANI and the Rev. W. WALTER WATTS. 
(Communicated by Mr. J. H. Matpen.) 
[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, June 3, 1914. ] 
Introduction. 
By W. WALTER WATTS. 
FOR some years I have been in the habit of sending speci- 
mens of Hepatics, collected in various parts of Australia, 
to Dr. Franz Stephani, of Leipsic, whose phenomenal labours 
in this family of Cryptogamic plants have won for him a 
world-wide fame. My own collecting has been done, 
mainly, in the following districts :—the Richmond River ; 
the Blue Mountains, including Mount Wilson; New Eng- 
land; Yarrangobilly; the South Coast as far down as 
Oambewarra; and Wyong, about 60 miles north of Sydney. 
A considerable number of new species, collected by me 
and by the late Mr. W. Forsyth, have already been described 
by Dr. Stephani and published in his great systematic work, 
‘‘Species Hepaticarum.’’ The present paper contains 
descriptions of 49 new species by Dr. Stephani, and many 
new records, which will form a substantial addition to our 
knowledge of the Hepatics of Australia, and especially of 
New South Wales. 
Through the kind services of Dr. Annand and the Rev. 
F. G. Bowie, M.A., of Tangoa, Santo, of the Rev. T. Riddle, 
late of Hpi, and particularly of the Rev. Dr. Gunn, of 
Aneityum and Futuna, I have been enabled to send to Dr. 
Stephani a considerable number of specimens from the New 
Hebrides; as well as material collected by myself on Lord 
Howe Island. Some of Dr. Gunn’s material reached Dr. 
Stephani through the Rev. David Lillie, of Caithness, N.B. 
