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Marchantia (compare Taheiti). On bank of stream in the barren upland at Naloa. No 

 specimens. 



(Hypnum?; compare No. 1 Taheiti to Samoa). Gen. incert. Muse; highly ornamental. 

 "Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



? (No. 3). Ovolau. 



(No. 4); a second species. Ovolau. 



(No. 5) ; a third species. Ovolau. 



Gen. incert. Muse. (No. 1) ; delicate. Ovolau. 



Gen. Muse, with large capsule ; bis (No. 1) Taheiti to Samoa. Frequent in the forest. 



Anyctangioid (No. 1). Capsule sessile, apparently triquetrous, like the seed of a Poly- 

 gonum. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Dicranum ; bis (No. 1) Samoa. Dendroid, or having the form of a miniature tree. In 

 the deep forest. 



? (No. 2). Branching; the capsule minute. (" Ovolau," Brackenridge). 



Trichostomum ? (No. 1); a woolly envelope entirely covering the capsule. Ovolau. 

 Usnea (compare No. 1 Taheiti to Tongatabu). On the mountain behind Muthuata, and 



in other localities ; growing on the branches of trees. 

 Sticta (compare Taheiti). On trunks of trees, in the moist woods on Ovolau. 

 (No. 3) ; perhaps a second species. 



? (No. 4). Thin, slate-coloi'ed, Parmelia-like, membranaceous. Ovolau. 



Cenomyce (No. 2) ; red-tipped. Mbua Bay, growing on the ground. 



Ramalina (compare No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Tongatabu). Ovolau, Bewa, and 

 elsewhere ; growing on the branches of trees. 



Boletus (No. 4). Small, thin. Bewa; attached to trunks of trees. 



(No. 5) ; perhaps distinct from the last. Thin, blackish above and white be- 

 neath ; pores minute. Ovolau. 



(No. 6) ; compare B. cinnabarinus. Ovolau ; and on the North coast of Viti- 



levu. 



(No. 7). Small, and brown. Ovolau, on trunks of trees. 



(No. 8). White; satiny above. In the Sandal-wood District. 



Agaricus ?, (No. 6) ; but the consistence Tremella-like. Ovolau, C. P. The specimen 

 preserved in spirits. 



Auricularia? (No. 1). Circular, thin; silky above, dull-white beneath. "Ovolau," 

 Brackenridge. 



Peziza (No. 2). Orange-colored ; cup-shaped, pedunc. Rewa. 

 Lycoperdon (No. 2) ; naked at base. 



(No. 8). Geastrum; having a stellate receptacle. Ovolau. 



The above List includes about six hundred indigenous species of 

 Ferns and Phgenogamous plants : not more perhaps than one-fourth of 

 the number that will be found growing here, whenever this extensive 

 Group and the Interior of its two main islands shall be thoroughly 

 examined. 



