■llama.] 
V. HEPATIC-®. 
537 
kish, loosely imbricate, spreading, orbicular-obovate ; lobule very large, 
ipyiag the centre of the leaf, and 7 smaller, compressed, semiorbicular, 
k ; involucral with a lanceolate 1-dentate lobule. Stipules small, cuneate, 
lothed; involucral 2-fid, 1-dentate on eacli side. Perianth oblong-obovate, 
ironate ; dorsal face flat, 2-keeled ; ventral convex, 4-keeled ; keels toothed 
ve. 
lorthern Island : East coast, on bark of Edwardsia, Colenso ; Auckland, Sinclair. 
mania.) 
2. F. pentapleura, Hook.f. and Tayl. FI. N. Z. ii. 162. t. 104./. 7. 
ms small, slender, -£•— t in. long, pinnate. Leaves red-brown or blackish 
olive-green, spreading, orbicular ; lobule on the face of the leaf, com- 
ssed, ^-orbicular ; involucral ovate, with an ovate 1-dentate lobule. 
: pules small, siiborbicular, 2-fid, entire or dentate on each side. Perianth 
ong-obovate, mucronate, compressed, 2-keeled on each face ; keels and 
rgins waved. — Syn. Hep. 775. 
Jorthern Island: Tarawera, in woods, Colenso ; Auckland, Sinclair. 
* Lobule on the margin of the leaf, cglindric, with a dilated trumpet-shaped mouth. 
.3. F. ptychantha, Montague ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 163. Stems 2 in. long, 
;ping, pinnate, thickened upwards. Leaves from olive-green to red- 
pie, loosely imbricate, very tender ; cells minute, obovate-cuneate ; lobule 
ill, pedicelled, oblong, inflated, opening downwards ; involucral acuminate, 
te entire, united with the stipular. Stipules ovate-oblong, \ as large as 
leaf, deeply acutely 2-fid . Perianth exserted, pyriform, 9-plicate. — Mont. 
Voy. Pole Sud, 225. t. 19. f. 3 ; Syn. Hep. 442. F. myosota, Hook. f. 
1 Tayl. in Lond. Journ. Pot. 1844, 393. 
Northern and Middle Islands: Wellington, Stephenson, Lyall. Lord Auckland’s 
up aud Campbell’s Island, Hombron, J. B. II. 
14. F. hypoleuca, Nees ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 163. General characters of F. 
ichuntha, but the leaves are closely imbricate, broader ; the lobule distant 
im the stem, with an interposed triangular lamina, the involucral leaves sub- 
Tate, and the perianth concave on the dorsal face, 1-keeled on the ventral. 
Syn. Hep. 443. 
Northern Island: Wellington, on Lichens, Stephenson (in Herb. Mitten). (Oahu.) 
15. F. fugax, Hook.f. and Tayl. FI. N. Z. ii. 161. t. 104./. 5. 'Stem 
nail, slender, creeping, pinnate, in. long. Leaves red-brown, imbricate, 
verging, orbicular; lobule very large, cylindric-oblong, with a dilated 
outh below ; involucral elongate, obtuse, with a subulate-lanceolate lobule. 
. ;ipules small, 2-fid, and 1-2-toothed; involucral more deeply 2-fid ; segments 
atire or toothed. Perianth sessile, oblong; dorsal face flat, 2-keeled; 
entral with 1 broad keel. — Syn. Hep. 445. 
Northern Island : probably common on Lichens, Bay of Islands, 7 B. II. ; east coast, 
c., Colenso ; ’Wellington, Stephenson. — The perianths here described are not fully formed. 
16. F. mcumbens, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 162. t. 104./. 6. Very 
milar in size and structure to F. fugax, but paler. Leaves more incurved ; 
hule very much smaller. Stipules not toothed, and with the obovate 
31-iant.h keeled sharply on its ventral face. 
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