Lepidozia. ] 
V. HEPATICjE. 
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Hep. 212. L. hippuroides, Hook. f. and Tayl. FI. Antarct. 159. t. 65. f. 7, and 
I. nemoides, Tayl. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1845, p. 84. 
Northern Island, Bay of Islands, Sinclair. Lord Auckland's group : on hark, 
etc., J. D. II. — A common tropical and southern plant, first described from West Indian 
specimens. (Jamaica, S. Africa, Tasmania, etc.) 
13. L. plumulosa, Lehn. and Lindb. — L. tetradactyla, Hook. f. and 
Tayl. FI. Antarct. 158. Stems 1 in. long, procumbent, pinnately decom- 
pound ; branches subequal, narrowing towards their tips. Leaves close-set, 
subvertical, quadrate-obovate, deeply 3-6-fid; segments subulate. Stipules 
quadrate, spreading at the base, acutely 4-fid. Perianth cylindric; mouth 
contracted, toothed. — Syn. Hep. 211. 
Lord Auckland’s group : on bark, etc. J. D. II. (Euegia.) — This was confounded 
in IT. Antarct. with the L. Lindenbergii, which has a ciliate mouth to the perianth. 
§ 2. Leaves 3-5-Jw? and also toothed. 
14. L. tenax, Lindb.; — FI. Antarct. 158. Stems pinnately compound 
or decompound ; branches incurved ; tips convolute. Leaves imbricate, ver- 
tical, ovate, concave, cauline appressed, 8-partite, sides lacerate and ciliate, 
those of the branches spreading, 3-4-fid ; segments subulate. Stipules ovate, 
flat, 4-5 -parted, ciliate and lacerate at the base. — Greville in Annals of New 
York Lyceum, i. 277. t. 23; Syn. Hep. 212. 
Lord Auckland’s group : on the ground and on trunks of trees, J. J). H. (Aus- 
tralia.) 
15. L. alb ula 5 Hoolc.f. and Tayl. FI. Antarct. 159. t. 65./. 6. Stems 
1 in. long, procumbent, subpinnately branched ; branches decurved, nar- 
rowed to the tips. Leaves yellow or greenish-white, pellucid, densely imbri- 
cate, very broad, amplexicaul, spreading, very concave, cellular, obliquely- 
oblong, 4-fid and deeply incised all round; dorsal margin dilated; lacinise 
entire or 2-fid, incurved. Stipules large, orbicular, concave, irregularly deeply 
6-8-toothed. — Syn. Hep. 211. 
Lord Auckland’s group : creeping over other Hepaticce , J. D. H . — Very much more 
beautiful and stouter than the other species, of a different habit and texture, but, owiug 
to the absence of fruit, doubtful as to genus. 
14. MASTIGOBRYUM, Nees. 
Stems creeping and rooting or ascending, large, sparingly branched, giving 
off numerous filiform leafless shoots. Leaves distichous, incubous, usually 
3-fid at the apex. Stipules toothed, often connate with the leaves above 
them. Fruit (and antheridia) terminal, on short proper branches, arising 
from the bracts of the stipules. Involucral leaves small, narrow, incised at 
the apex. Perianth elongate, 3 -angular; mouth 3-toothed. Calyptra mem- 
branous. Capsule globose, on a slender fruitstalk; elaters with 2 spiral 
fibres. Antheridia 2 in the axil of each perigonial leaf. 
A tropical and subtropical genus, rare in Europe and N. America, most abundant in Aus- 
tralia and New Zealand. The species are often broad and flat, some resembliug Lopliocolece 
in general habit, but the stipules are connate with the leaves above (not below) them. 
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