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V. HEPATIC*. 
\_Gottschea. 
fragile, covered with rootlets. Leaves dull olive-green or whitish, very thick, 
fleshy, brittle ; ventral lobe ovate-oblong, truncate, entire ; dorsal shorter, 
broadly ovate or semicordate, also truncate, both often crenate at the apex. 
Stipules suborbicular or oblong, refuse or 2-fid. — ? G. pachyphylla, Nees, 
Syn. Hep. 621 ; FI. Antarct. 147. 
Northern Island : summit of the Euahine mountains, Colenso. 
? Lord Auckland’s group : on the hills, J. B. H. — A very difficult plant to dissect 
after being dried. Of the Auckland Island plant referred to G. pachyphylla (a Tristan 
d’Acunha species), there were hut a few scraps, which, after examination by Dr. Taylor, 
were not returned to Kew. Mr. Mitten suspects that they are referable to this. (Fuegia.) 
** Stipules 0. 
10. G. pinnatifolia, Nees ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 149. Stems 2-3 in. high. 
Leaves dull green, closely imbricate, obliquely ovate-acuminate or ovate- 
lanceolate, irregularly toothed and ciliate ; dorsal lobe nearly as long as but 
narrower than the ventral ; involucral toothed. Stipule 0. Perianth cylin- 
dric-oblong ; mouth 5-lobed ; lobes toothed. — Syn. Hep. 22 ; Hook. Muse. 
Exot. t. 114 ; FI. Antarct. 147. t. 63. f. 1. G. ciliigera, Hook. f. and Tayl. 
in Lond. Journ. Bot. iii. 376. 
Northern and Middle Islands : Tararua range, Colenso ; Dusky Bay, Menzies ; Port 
William, Lyall ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. Lord Auckland’s group, J. B. H. 
(Tasmania.) 
11. G. tuioides. Hook. f. and Tayl. FI. N. Z. ii. 150. t. 101./. 1. 
Stems short, stout, 1 in. long, broad. Leaves dark green, imbricate, spread- 
ing, with minute asperities on the surface towards the apex, toothed ; ventral 
lobe ovate-lanceolate, acute, concave ; margin flat ; dorsal shorter, ovate, 
truncate, anterior margin recurved ; involucral free, sheathing. Stipule 0. — 
Syn. Hep. 626. 
Northern and Middle Islands : forests on the east coast, Colenso ; Port Preservation, 
Lyall. 
8. CHILOSCYPHUS, Corda. 
Stems prostrate, creeping, rooting from the bases of the stipules. Leaves 
succubous, distichous, decurrent. Stipules often decurrent and connate with 
the leaves below them. Fruit terminal on very short lateral branches. In- 
volucre of 2-6 leaves. Perianth 2-3-partite. Calyptra herbaceous, globose 
or clavate, often longer than the perianth, bursting irregularly at the apex. 
Capsule ovoid, on a slender fruitstalk ; elaters with 2 spiral fibres. Antlie- 
ridia in the saccate dorsal bases of perigonial leaves which resemble the 
cauline. 
Similar in habit to Lophocolea, with which some of the species are probably confounded. 
A large genus fouud in all temperate and many tropical parts of the world. In C. 
BUlardieri, the commonest species, the character of leaves connate at the base or free, and 
entire at the apex or toothed, breaks down. I suspect that a good many of the following 
species will be found very unstable. 
§ I. Leaves opposite. Stipules united to loth the leaves below them by their decurrent 
margins. 
* Leaves united by their dorsal bases (sometimes free in J. Billardieri). 
t Leaves entire or nearly so at the apex. 
C. Menziesii, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 139. t. 98./. 1. Stem 1 in. long, 
