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V. HEPATICiE. 
[Lejeunia. 
y. Leaves not ciliate, sometimes papillose at the edge , subacute or acute. Stipules 
minute. 
10. L. latitans, Kook. f. and Tayl. FI. N. Z. ii. 159. Stems minute, 
creeping, slender, | in. long. Leaves pale green, distant, erecto-patent, 
ovate, acute or acuminate; margins papillose ; lobule ovate, involute, half the 
size of the leaf; involucral united with the obovate involucral stipule. Stipules 
minute, 2 -fid; segments lanceolate, obtuse. — Syn. Hep. 345 ; FI. Antarct. 
166. 
Northern Island : on moist banks, Colenso. Lord Auckland’s group : creeping 
on mosses, etc., J. D. H. 
11. L. comitans, Hook.f. and Tayl. FI. N. Z. ii. 159. Stems minute, 
-Jg—i- in. long, procumbent, with thickened shoots. Leaves pale olive-green, 
closely imbricate, spreading, minutely cellular, tumid, oblong, subacute, quite 
entire ; apex recurved ; lobule ovate, indexed, subacute. Stipules minute, dis- 
tant, orbicular, 2-fid. Perianth axillary, obcordate, flattened dorsally, with 
1 broad rib on the ventral face. — Syn. Hep. 760. 
Northern Island: Bay of Islands, with L. mollis, J. I). H. 
8. Leaves not ciliate , obtuse. Stipules rather large , conspicuous. 
12. L. nudipes, Hook.f. and Tayl. FI. N. Z. ii. 158. 1. 103./. 4. Stems 
minute, creeping, branched, in. long. Leaves pale green, distant, spread- 
ing, concave, opaque, obovate, narrowed at the base, rounded at the apex, 
subcrenulate ; lobule small, narrow, subacute ; involucral similar. Stipules 
ovate, acutely 2-fid, involucral obovate with ovate segments. Perianth clavate, 
narrow below and substipitate, 5-gonous, retuse, with crenulate angles. — Syn. 
Hep. 372. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, creeping over mosses, J. J). H. 
14. L. thymifolia, Nees ; — FI. N. Z. 158. Stem creeping, branched. 
Leaves yellow, imbricate, oval, narrowed at the obtuse apex, cpiite entire ; 
lobule orbicular, truncate ; involucral ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, with a tongue- 
shaped lobule. Stipules large, imbricate, ovate-cordate, 2-fid. Perianth 
terminal and lateral, obovate, 5-gonous. — Syn. Hep. 373. 
Northern Island: Bay of Islands, on bark, Sinclair ; Cape Turnagain, Colenso. 
(Java, S. America, Madeira.) 
15. L. tumida, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 157. t. 103./. 3. Stems very 
slender, in. long, much branched. Leaves bright green, loosely imbri- 
cate, cells pellucid, very convex, spreading, rather horizontal, obliquely 
ovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, quite entire ; lobule small, inflexed, in- 
flated ; involucral with a longer obtuse lobule. Stipules orbicular, acutely 
2 -fid. Perianth obovoid, tumid, retuse, inflated and obscurely 5 -angled at 
the summit. 
Northern Island : probably common on trees, Sinclair, Colenso, Stephenson , etc. 
Campbell’s Island, J. D. H. (Tasmania, Australia.) 
24. FRULLANIA, Eaddi. 
Stems prostrate or creeping, flattened, usually purplish-brown. Leaves 
