HEPATIC^..— W. MITTEN. 
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2. Scapania clandestina, Mont. Hot. Crypt. Astrolabe, t. 16, f. 4. Balan- 
tiopsis incrassata, Mitt, in Journ. Soc. Linn. xv. 197. 
Hill N.W. of Mt. Crozier, in very small quantity with J. cylindriforniis, Eaton. 
The stems of this small plant are about inch high, and with the leaves line 
wide. Leaves firm, with small round cells ; lobes unequal and differing in their 
direction, the dorsal patent, the ventral nearly twice as large and divergent. In the 
Kerguelen specimens the space Ijetween the lobes is keeled and curved, and both 
the lobes are denticulate, except the superior edge of the ventral lol)e which is only 
denticulate towards the apex, and like that of tlie dorsal lobe is terminated by two 
larger teeth (henoe bidentato, with a small rounded sinus). In this particular they 
nearly resemble the leaves of Lalantiopsis diplophylla and B. erinacea, Tayl. 
(Scapania), but differ in their dense arcolation. No authentic specimen has been 
seen of S. clandestina, Mont., but the figure quoted agrees except in the arcuation 
of the Carina. A single stem picked from a tuft of Aneura from New Zealand has 
the lobes more nearly equal, the carina straight, very much longer, and all the 
marginal teeth more spiniform ; it is probalde as suspected in the Synopsis Hepati- 
carum, that the 2)lant in a complete state would be different from the imperfect 
specimens yet seen.- This species departs from S. densfoUa and its allies in the 
leaves being carinate, and thus corresponds to Martinellia ; it has, however, the apices 
of its leaves bedentate, wliich give it a different look from any of the species referred 
to that genus. 
1. CGSia atrocapilla, Mook.f. et Tayl. El. Antarct. 423. 
Foul haven, on clay banks. Hooker; in small blackish patches closely inter- 
woven, Moseley. 
From the examination of some branches of the specimens collected by Hr. 
Hooker it appears that fertile shoots would have their upper leaves nearly or 
quite oiitu-e and nearly orbicular in form. 
1. Lembidium ventrosum, Mitt, in Journ. Soc. Linn. XV., 69. Caulis 
humilis, late compacteque csespitosus, ascendens vel erect us, arcuatus, crassus, ra- 
mosus, innovationibus flagelliformibus ex amphigastriorum angulis emittens. Folia 
inferiora remota, superioi’a majora, insertione fere verticalia, patentia, apicem caulis 
versus imhricata, rotundata, profunde concava, apicc rotundata sinuve subindistincto 
subretusa, cellulis parvis parietibus angustis areolata. Amphigastria parva, cauli 
appressa, subtriangulari-ovata, apico subemarginata. Perianthium in ramo supeme 
valde incrassato, foliis amphigastrioque involuoralibus convolutis ovatis apice brevi- 
ter bitri-denticulatis, trigonum, ovatum, apice plicatum, ore laciniis conniventibus 
denticulatis obtusum. 
Hill N.W. of Mt. Crozier, in dense tufts on the earth, with capsules just rising, 
Eaton. 
In extensive brownish olive-green patches. Stems about 4 lines high, with the 
leaves scarcely ^ lino wide, closely congested and cohering with very slender 
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