418 FLORA VITIENSIS, 
subclavato erecto subdeclinatove a cauli remotiore; amphigastria suborbiculata, bifida, sinu laciniisqnue 
acutis; folia involucralia longiora, late lanceolata, lobulis late ovato-lanceolatis, amphigastrioque 
dentato-laceris; perianthium emergens oblongum, obtusum, apiculatum, dorso lzevi ventre unicari- 
natum.—Viti (Seemann! n. 834; Milne), 
4, F. vaga, (sp. nov.) Mitt.; caulis procumbens, subpinnatim divisus ; folia divaricata, oblongo- 
rotundata, apice inflexa, lobulo cauli approximato hamato decurvato ; amphigastria rotunda, trans- 
versim paululo latiora, apice sinu parvo brevissime fissa, lobulum tegentia.—Viti (Seemann !). 
Caulis biuncialis, cum foliis sublineam latus. Folia castanea. 
5. F. nodulosa, Nees ab E.; Gottsche, Lindenb. et Nees Syn. Hepat. p. 443; caulis, ramis 
elongatis divergentibus, pinnatus bipinnatusve, ramosus ; folia divergentia, orbiculata, margine apice 
ventralique inflexa, lobnlo parvo cauli approximato claviformi dependente ; amphigastria orbicularia, 
basi cordata, medio carinata, apice sinn parvo rectangulari bidentata, margine recurva; folia involn- 
cralia, marginibus incurvis subintegerrimis; amphigastrium lacero-serratum ; perianthium ovatum, 
dorso convexum, Ventre unicarinatum, angulis subdentatis,— Viti (Seemann !), Tahiti (Menzies !). 
6. F. defiexa, Mitt. Bonplandia, 1862, p, 19; caulis elongatus, bipinnatus; folia orbiculata, 
obtusa, lobulo clayato vel pyriformi deflexo a cauli subremoto ; amphigastria magna, lobulum tegentia, 
oblata, emarginata, sinn laciniisque obtusiuscnlis.—Viti (Seemann ! n. 834). 
Cuulis 4-5 uncias Jougus, ramis diyaricatis subuncialibus.—F. intermedia statura similis, folia autem 
F. nodulose similiora sed magis orbiculata, et lobulo a cauli remotiore,—Spice masculs breves, foliis arvte 
imbricatis. 
X. Marsupidium, Mitt. in Hooker, Handb, of the New Zealand Flora, p. 751 et 753. 
Caules erecti ascendentesve, simplices. Folia subverticalia. Amphigastria nulla. Perianthium in 
ramo breyi basilari nuduni. 
1. M. Urvilleanum, Mont. (Scapania) ; Gottsche, Lindenb. et Nees Syn. Hepat. 63; folia 
patentia, rotunda, apice integra vel oblique subretusa, denticulata, cellulis parvis rotundatis areolata. 
—Viti (Seemann). 
A single stem picked from amongst Mosses is all that indicates the presence of this or some closely- 
allied species. 
XI, Metzgeria, Kaddi. Frons tenuis, furcata pinnatimve divyisa, costa angusta percursa, € 
latere yentrali fructifera, Flores masculi in lobulis excayatis inclusi, e latere ventrali costz oriundi. 
1, M. furcata, Linn. Sp. Plant. (Junagermannia) ; frons furcata, vage divisa, linearis, pagina 
superiore glabra, margine costaque paging inferioris setulosa vel denudata, inyolucro e costa oriundo 
parvo monophyllo, calyptra carnosula setulosa.—Viti (Seemann), Samoa (Powell, n. 164). 
Frondes im speciminibus Samoanis margine recurva serie dupliei ciliorum fimbriate, forma communi 
Europe omnino similia. 
XII, Sarcomitrium, Corda in Sturm Flora Germ, vol. ii. p. 120. +. 35, Frons subsimples, 
pinuata bipmmmatave, e costa valida carnosa fere totam oceupante constituta. Fructus lateralis. 
Flores masculi in lobis propriis dispositi, antheridiis immersis——Anewra et Metzgeria ex parte, 
Gottsche ; Lindenb, et Nees, Syn. Hepat. p. 493 et 501. 
ee is a non-Vitian species :—1, 8. multifidum, Linn. Sp. Pl. (Jungermannia).—Samoa (Powell !). 
n, 145). 
1. S. plumosum, Mitt. Bonplandia, 1862, p. 19; caulis ascendens, compressus, nudus, bipin- 
natus, ratnis ambitu late ovatis ramulis compressis margine integerrimis pellucidis nervo paululo 
obscuriore notatis ; involucri squamz dactyloides.—Viti (Seemann! n. 847). 
