Frullania .] 
V. HEPATICjE. 
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Lord Auckland’s group : rocks on the mountains, J. D. H . — A larger plant than 
F. rostrata, with larger leaf-cells and 4-partite stipules. 
23. F. gracilis, Nees. Stem creeping, pinnately and 2-pinnately 
branched. Leaves imbricate, orbicular, obtuse, quite entire ; lobule auricled, 
oblique, exposed ; involucral inciso-serrate. Stipules imbricate, flat, sub- 
rotund, 2-fid, quite entire ; involucral inciso-serrate. Perianth 3-gonous, 
prismatic, smooth ; dorsal surface convex, ventral with 1 keel. — Syn. Hep. 
452 ; Mont, in Voy. au Pole Sud, 223. 
Lord Auckland’s group, Hombron. — I have seen no Auckland Island specimens ; the 
species is also found in Java and the Malayan peninsula. 
24. FOSSOMBRONIA, Raddi. 
Prond prostrate, creeping, lobed pinnately; lobes succubous, distichous, 
quadrate, 3-5 -lobed, flaccid. Stipules 0. Pruit terminal, or lateral by the 
growth of the stem. Involucre of subulate leaves, adnate to the perianth, 
which is campanulate; mouth large, lobed. Calyptra pyriform. Capsule on 
a short fruitstalk, globose, irregularly 4-valved ; elaters short, with 2-3 spiral 
fibres. Antheridia naked on the under surface. 
A small genus, found in various parts of the world, intermediate between the frondose and 
leafy Hepatica ; the stem may be regarded as a frond pinnatifid to the midrib, or as fur- 
nished with adnate leaves. 
1. F. pusilla, Nees ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 163. Minute; stems | in. long, 
simple or forked. Leaves obliquely spreading, lower waved and lobed, upper 
crisped, 3-4-lobed or -angled. Perianth obconic, toothed. — Syn. Hep. 467. 
Northern Island : east coast and Hawke’s Bay, on banks, palings, etc., Colenso. 
(America, Canary Islands, S. Africa, Tasmania, Kerguelen’s Land.) 
2. F. intestinalis, Tayl. FI. N. Z. ii. 163. Minute; stems L-j in. 
long, with purple rootlets. Leaves ascending, tumid, plaited, convolute, 
incised and lobed; lobes acute. Perianth campanulate, crenate. — Syn. Hep. 
469. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, J. I. H. (Tasmania.) 
25. NOTEROCLADA, Taylor. 
Prond appressed to the ground, creeping, rooting, stout, forked, pinnately 
lobed ; lobes broad, sessile, decurrent, soft, quite entire. Stipules 0. Pruit 
lateral or terminal. Involucre confluent with the perianth, erect ; cylindrical 
or compressed ; mouth somewhat 2- or 4-lobed. Capsule subglobose, on a 
slender fruitstalk, 4-valved or bursting irregularly; elaters short, with 2? 
spiral fibres. Antheridia immersed in the back of the stem. 
A small Brazilian and Australian genus, closely allied to Fossombronia. 
1 . N. porphyrorhiza, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 163. Stem simple, \ in. 
long, flexuous, with the leaves \ in. broad, green or purple. Leaves dis- 
tichous, oblique, approximate, ovate or suborbicular ; margins papillose. 
Perianth small, obovate ; lobes crenate-dentate. — Androcryphia, Nees; Syn. 
Hep. 470. Jungermannia, Nees ; Montagne in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1839, t. 1. f. 1. 
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