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V. HEPATTCiE. 
[. Lepidozia . 
subvertical, obliquely secund, and stipules orbicular-ovate, convex, deeply 4- 
fid ; segments lanceolate, conniving, somewhat waved. — Syn. Hep. 208. 
Northern and Middle Islands : top of the Ruahine range, Colenso ; Dusky Bay, 
Menzies ; Canterbury, Haast ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. (Tasmania.) 
7. L. spinosissima, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 146. t. 100./. 2. Stems 
8 in. long, 2-pinnate ; branches fastigiate, capillary at the ends. Leaves 
pale-brown, erecto-patent, distant, and stipules flat, cuneate or oblong-qua- 
drate, 4-fid below the middle ; segments subulate, rigid. — Sendtnera, Hook. f. 
and Tayl. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 1846, 373 ; Syn. Hep. 723. 
Northern Island : common, Bdgerley , Colenso , etc. 
8. L. filamentosa, Lindt/. ; — Syn. Ilep. 207. Stems suberect, pinnate; 
branches with capillary tips. Leaves remote, ^-vertical, decurrent, convex, 
orbicular, 3-4-fid ; lobes broadly lanceolate, with incurved tips ; involucre 
oblong, incised and toothed. Stipules ovate-quadrate, 3-4-fid. Perianth 
cylindric-pyriform ; mouth toothed. — Mont. Voy. an Pole Sud, 246. 
Lord Auckland’s group, D'Urville. AN.W. American and Fuegian plant, of which 
I have seen no N. Z. specimens. 
** Stems usually less than 1 in. long , capillary , vaguely branched. 
9. L. dispar, Mont. Voy. an Pole Sud , 248 ; — Ft. Antarct. 158. Stem 
capillary, minute, -J- in. long, tufted ; branches very long, capillary, spreading. 
Leaves vertical, distant, spreading, incurved, obovate-cuneate, narrow at the 
base, 3-fid to the middle ; segments subulate subacute. Stipules similar, 
smaller. Perianth terminal, capitate, large. — Syn. Hep. 203. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, Hombron, J. D. H. 
10. L. patentissima, Hook.f. and Tayl. PI. Antarct. i. 158. t. 65./. 5. 
Stem minute, short, slender, % in. long, creeping, tufted, subpinnately branched; 
branches short. Leaves olive-green, imbricate, rather close-set, obliquely 
spreading, cellular, obovate-quadrate, narrowed at the base, 3-5-fid ; segments 
shortly ovate-subulate, straight or incurved. Stipules similar, minute. — Syn. 
Hep. *204. 
Lord Auckland’s group : creeping on trunks of trees, etc., J. D. H. 
11. L. Lindenbergii, Gottsche ; — PI. N. Z. ii. 146. Stem creeping, ' 
1-2-pinnately branched ; branches crowded, spreading. Leaves pale yellow- 
green, distant, distichous, subvertical, spreading, obovate-quadrate ; segments 
capillary, articulate, straight and incurved ; involucre unequally divided. Sti- 
pules orbicular-ovate, 3-5-parted. Perianth cylindric, elongate; mouth con- 
tracted, ciliate. — Syn. Hep. 213. 
Northern and Middle Islands : probably common, from the Bay of Islands, J. D. H., 
to Dusky Bay, Menzies. — This is the plant alluded to in FI. Antarct. 158, under L. tetra- 
dactyla , as horn New Zealand, (Tasmania.) 
12. L. capillaris, Lindb.; — FI. JV. Z. ii. 146. Stems in. long, 
creeping, capillary, pinnately branched or decompound ; branches diverging. 
Leaves vertical, subimbricate, obovate-quadrate, and minute stipules 3-4- 
partite ; segments lanceolate, subulate, incurved, obtuse ; involucral shortly 
incised, ciliate; margins toothed. Perianth with the mouth ciliate. — Syn. 
