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Primary stems of the same colour as the leaves, fleshy, obscure, creeping ; from 
these arise erect or ascending simple or branched shoots, which are arcuate, their 
points attenuated and decurved. The leaves where largest are about | line long, 
and when flattened of the same width, of a pale obscure olive-green ; bases not 
decun-ent ; insertion variable but generally oblique ; margins entire, or obtusely sub- 
crenate ; arcolation of hexagonal or rounded cells with thin walls, enclosing a few 
green granules and projecting on both surfaces, but most on the external, as hyaline 
papulae. Papula: of the same kind are also present on the younger stems, 
but less prominent. 
No kind of inflorescence has been seen on this species, and its location here is 
conjectured from its having the same habit as M. KnUjhtii, from New Zealand. 
Tab. III., Pig. xi. ; 1, plant of nat. size ; 2, part of stem with leaves ; 3, cells 
from middle of leaf ; both magnified. 
1. Fossombronia australis, 3IUt. in Joum. Soc. Linn. Caulis 
ccespitosus, prostratus vel ascendens, arcuatus, radiccUis purpureis. Polia sub- 
quadrata, angulata, margine flexuosa, antice incurva. Perianthium turbinatum, 
margine flexuosum, angulatum, semina rotunda limbo hyalino lievia. 
Kerguelen Island, Moseley. Royal Sound, and near Vulcan Cove, with young 
capsules, Eaton. (Heard Island, Moseley). 
Some of the specimens are very large, with arcuate stems more than an inch 
long, producing many pm-ple rootlets. The leaves are 1 line long by about wide, 
green, with pellucid cells. 
2. Fossombronia pusilla, Linn. 
Christmas Harbour, amongst moss. Hooker. 
1. Noteroclada porpbyrorhiza, Nees ; N. confluens, El. Antarct. 446, t. 
161, f. 7. 
Christmas Harbour, on moist banks. Hooker. 
1. Sympbogyna podopbylla, Thunb. ( Jungermannia) ; Goitsclie, Lindenh. 
et Nees Syn. Hepat. 481. 
Near Vulcan Cove ; Royal Sound ; hill N.W. of Mount Crozier ; all without 
fructification, Eaton. 
1. Aneura multiflda, Linn. (Jungermannia). 
West side of Swain’s Bay, on boggy ground, and near Vulcan Cove, all barren, 
Eaton. 
2. Aneura pinguis, LAnn. (Jungermannia). 
West side of Swain’s Bay, small and barren, Eaton. 
1. Marchantia polymorpha, Linn. 
Christmas Harbour ; Hooker, Moseley ; Royal Sound and Swain’s Bay, Eaton. 
All the specimens produce scyphi, but are otherwise barren. 
