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V. HEPATICjE. 
[. Lejeunia . 
§ 1. Stipules 0. 
1. L. laevigata, Mitten in Ft. N. Z. ii. 157. Stem 1 in. long, creeping, 
flattened and closely appressed, pinnate. Leaves imbricate, suborbicular, ob- 
tuse ; lobule oblong or obovate, 3-dentate, one-quarter smaller than the leaf ; 
involucral narrower, with obtuse entire lobes. Perianth obconic or turbinate, 
obtuse ; dorsal face flat ; ventral with 2 appressed folds. 
Northern Islands: on fronds of ferns, leaves, etc.; Auckland, Sinclair; Tehawera, 
Colenso. 
2. L. pulchella 3 Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 157. t. 103./. 2. Stem very 
minute, — ~ in. long. Leaves white, membranous, remote, incurved re- 
curved or flexuous, oblong, obtuse, quite entire; lobule small, subquadrate, 
2-3-dentate ; involucral smaller, narrower. Perianth lateral, flattened, ob- 
conic or obcordate, retuse ; margins quite entire. 
Northern Island : Manawata river', Colenso. 
§ 2. Stipules large, suborbicular, quite entire or very inconspicuously toothed. 
3. L. olivacea, Book. f. and Tayt. Ft. N. Z. ii. 157. Stems 1 in. long, 
procumbent, subpinnate. Leaves brownish, wrinkled when dry, imbricate, 
spreading, oblong-ovate, rounded, incurved and often white at the apex, 
lobule small, oblong, acute, tumid, quite entire; involucral narrower, acute. 
Stipules large, orbicular-obovate, obscurely emarginate. Perianth oblong- 
obovate, flattened, 3-ribbed on either face. — Syn. Hep. 334. Fliragmicoma 
olivacea. Mitten, mss. 
Northern Island: Wellington, Stephenson, Colenso ; Auckland, Sinclair. 
4. L. scutellata, Mitten in Ft. N. Z. ii. 155. t. 102./. 4. Stem 1-2 
in. long, tufted ; branches pinnate, ascending. Leaves olive-green or brown, 
imbricate, spreading, convex, ovate-oblong, quite entire ; apex acute, re- 
curved, sinuate at the base ; lobule small, quite entire, orbicular, involute ; 
involucral immersed, ovate-lanceolate, nearly entire ; lobules lanceolate. Sti- 
pules orbicular-obovate, with lanceolate lobules ; involucral 2-fid. Perianth 
axillary, oblong, with entire angles. — Thysananthus scutellatus, Hook. f. and 
Tayl. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 1846, 383 ; Syn. Hep. 739. 
Northern and Middle Islands: Bay of Islands, Cunningham, etc.-, Nelson, Mantell ; 
Otago, Hector and Buchanan. 
5. L. anguiformis, Hook.f. and Tayl. FI. N. Z. ii. 156. t. 102. /. 5. 
Stem 1-1J in. high. Leaves olive-green or brownish, imbricate, spreading, 
oblong-ovate, quite entire ; apex obtuse or acute and ventral margin incurved ; 
lobule half as long, narrow, elongate, rounded at the apex, quite entire ; in- 
volucral broader, with an acute lobule. Stipules larger, orbicular, broader than 
long, quite entire. Perianth obovate, compressed ; margins and apex toothed ; 
faces obscurely keeled. — Thysananthus anguiformis, Hook. f. and Tayl. in 
Lond. Journ. Bot. 1844, 567 ; Syn. Hep. 289. 
Northern Island: Tararua, on trees, Colenso. 
Two species, of which descriptions were published by Dr. Taylor, but of which the speci- 
mens were not returned to the Hookerian herbarium, are referred with probability, by Mr. 
Mitten, to this, viz. L. mollis. Mitten, FI. N. Z. ii. 157 ( Ftychanthus , Hook. f. and Tayl. 
1. c. 334), with leaves sinuate, plicate at the base, and stipules smaller (Bay of Islands, 
