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The species occurs in New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia and Fiji. There are 

 two packets in the Mitten Herbarium (NY) marked "Island Harbor, Cunning- 

 ham" which contain plants of this species. One packet contains L. scolopendra 

 and L. rigida, the latter a species limited to South America, in equal amounts, 

 while the other contains a great amount of L. scolopendra and several stems of 

 L. loriana, a species known otherwise only from the Pacific. To my knowledge 

 there have been no other collections reported from South America. 



2. Lepicolea ochroleuca (K. Spengel) Spruce, Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 

 15: 345. 1885. 



Jungermannia ochroleuca K. Sprengel, Syst. 4 2 : 325. 1827. 

 Sendtnera ochroleuca C. G. Nees in G. L. & N. Syn. Hep. 240. 1845. 

 Sendtnera ochroleuca /3 mexicana Gottsehe, Mex. Leberin. 140. 1863. 

 Leperoma ochroleuca Mitten in J. D. Hooker, Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 754. 1867. 

 Herbcrtia ochroleuca Trevisan, Mem. 1st. Lomb. III. 4: 397. 1877. 



Plants large, yellow to golden-brown or dark brown, ascending to erect in 

 large, deep cushions ; stems rigid, to 14 cm long, with leaves to 5 mm wide, with- 

 out paraphyllia, regularly pinnate, the lateral branches simple, widely spreading, 

 often becoming attenuate-flagelliform, decurved in the outer part. Stem leaves 

 subsymmetric, 0.5-1.5 mm long, 0.3-0.7 mm wide, cuneate, bisbifid; segments 

 lanceolate, the margins with a few long, slender teeth and cilia, crenulate, the 

 tips attenuate, ending in a uniseriate row of to twelve cells which become in- 

 creasingly longer to the tip cell, hyaline in part ; dorsal margin of the lamina 

 with a few long teeth and cilia, the ventral margin not divided, crenulate ; cells 

 of the lamina tending to be in rows, below the segments averaging 27-36 X 18- 

 22 fx, the walls thickened, with large trigones and thin pits, the cell lumina 

 angular, the cuticle verruculose. Underleaves symmetric, similar to the leaves, 

 scarcely smaller. Plants dioicous. Male inflorescence intercalary on a vegetative 

 branch, the bracts and bracteoles in sixteen or more series, the bracts less divided 

 and with more cilia than the leaves, concave ; antheridia large, one or two in the 

 axils of the bracts ; paraphyses absent. Female bracts and bracteoles similar to 

 the leaves and underleaves, larger ; archegonia twelve or more. Coelocaule 

 elongate, club-shaped, densely covered with paraphyllia and scales (fragments 

 of the bracts and bracteoles), the unfertilized archegonia at the tip, fleshy, the 

 wall thick, closely adhering to the young sporophyte. Mature sporophyte, spores, 

 and elaters not seen. Fig. 2, a-j. 



Habitat : On the ground, over rocks and on trunks of trees, forming spongy 

 cushions with other bryophytes. 



MEXICO: s.l., without collector's name, as L. ochroleuca /3 mexicana (NY). 



GUATEMALA: El Progreso, near Volcan Santa Louisa, Steyermarlc 43528 (F). 



HONDURAS : Morazan, Cerro Uyuca, 1600-1800 m. Standley 705, 721, 8040 p.p. (F). 



PATAGONIA— TIEREA DEL FUEGO: Corral, Thaxter 117 p.p. (MICH); Valdivia, 

 Eahn (G) ; Chiloe I., Cuming 144 (NY) ; Lake Nahuel Huapi, Dusen 524 (NY) ; Guaitecas I., 

 Dusen 366 (NY) ; Lake Llanquihu§, Dusen 415 (NY) ; Aysen, River, Dusen 336 (G) ; Halt 

 Bay, Cunningham (NY) ; Sholl Bay, Cunningham 239 (NY) ; Port Gallant, Cunningham 

 (NY); York Bay, Lechler (NY); s.l., Lechler (NY); Desolation I: Puerto Angosta, Dusen 

 276 (NY); Hermite I., Hooker (NY); Cape Horn, Hooker (NY). 



JUAN FERNANDEZ: Masafuera: Las Torres, Skottsberg 201, (as L. ochroleuca var. 

 seriata) (NY); Masatierra: Torbezuelo de Villagra, Skottsberg 207 (NY). 



The species has also been reported in the following papers: Bolivia (Pearson, 1890; 

 Spruce, 1890), Chile (Evans, 1892; Hampe, 1854; Herzog, 1921, 1923, 1939b, 1954; Massalon- 

 go, 1927; Montagne, 1848, 1852; Miiller, 1955; Reimers, 1926; Stephani, 1900 a, b, 1901 a, 

 1902, 1903a, 1911). Juan Fernandez (Herzog, 1942a), Argentina (Kiihnemann, 1949; Muller, 

 1955) and Tierra de Fuego (Gola, 1923). 



