Lejeunia.'] 
V. HEPATICiE. 
533 
J. D. II.) ; aud Z. ophiocephala, Mitten, FI. N. Z. ii. 157 ( Thysananthus , Hook, f. Tayl. 1. c. 
384), with an acute lobule and stipules with recurved tips (Bay of Islands, Sinclair). To 
these may be added I. plicatiscypha , Gottsche, Syn. Hep. 748 ; FI. N. Z. ii. 156 ( Phrag - 
micoma, Hook. f. and Tayl. 1. c.). 
§ 3. Stipules large, many-toothed. 
6 . L. Stephensoniana, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 155. t. 102./. 3. Stems 
1 1 in. long, dichotomously branched. Leaves olive-brown, imbricate, oblong- 
ovate, acute, quite entire, flat or with the apex incurved or involute ; ventral 
margin incurved ; lobule small, toothed. Stipules obovate, subtruncate, 
toothed; margins slightly recurved. 
Northern Island: Wellington, Stephenson. — Described from a fragment picked from 
off mosses sent to Mr. Mitten. 
§ 4. Stipules 2-dentate or 2-fid. 
a. Leaves ciliolate or papillose. 
7. L. papillata, Mitten in FI. FT. Z. ii. 158. t. 103./. 5. Stems ^ 
in. long, creeping, branched. Leaves pale green, rather remote, spreading, 
deflexed, falcate, ovate-acinaciform, rounded at the incurved apex, ciliolate, 
with papillae all round ; dorsal margin convex ; ventral rather concave ; lobule 
small, inflated ; involucral smaller, with an ovate lobule. Stipules not ciliate, 
orbicular, 2-fid; segments 1-2-toothed. Perianth obovate-quadrate, retuse, 
compressed, 5-gonous ; angles papillose. 
Northern Island: creeping on fern fronds and mosses, Sinclair, Colenso ; Wellington, 
Stephenson. 
j8. Leaves not ciliate, very obtuse, rarely acute in L. rufeseens. Stipules minute. 
8 . 3L. rufeseens, Lindenberg .- — L. implexicaulis, PI. N. Z. ii. 158. Stems 
- 4 — f in. long, creeping, branched. Leaves olive-green, cellular, imbricate, 
spreading or suberect, oblong-obovate, orbicular-ovate or ovate, convex ; apex 
incurved, obtuse subacute or truncate; lobule small, involute. Stipules 
usually narrower than the branch, more or less orbicular, acutely 2-fid. Pe- 
rianth lateral, sessile, compressed, with 1 keel on the dorsal and 2 on the 
ventral side. — Syn. Hep. 366. L. implexicaulis, mimosa, albo-virens, and 
primordialis, Hook. f. and Tayl. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 1844, 397, 398, and 
1845, 92 ; Pi. Antarct. 166. t. 66 . f. 4. 
Northern and Middle Islands, probably common, creeping amongst mosses, etc.; 
Manawata river, Colenso ; Wellington, Stephenson ; Canterbury, Travers. Lord Auck- 
land’s group and Campbell’s Island, J. D. H. (Fuegia, Tasmania.) — Probably a very 
common southern species (of which L. primordialis is an exceedingly small variety), and the 
representative of the European L. serpyllifolia. 
9. L. cucullata, Nees. Stems very minute, capillary, almost microscopic, 
creeping, branched. Leaves pale green, lax, erecto-patent, concave, orbicular- 
quadrate, subtruncate, quite entire ; lobule as large as the leaf, incurved, ap- 
pressed ; summit angled ; base tumid. Stipules most minute, 2-fid ; segments 
linear, subincurved. — Syn. Hep. 389. L. plicatiloba, Hook. f. and Tayl. PI. 
Antarct. 166 ; Syn. Hep. 369; Mont. Yoy. au.Pole Sud, 218. 
Lord Auckland’s group, Hombron ; creeping on Parmelia, J. J). LI. 
