Go to National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
Volume 74, 1944-45
Previous Article | Table of Contents | Next Article
This text is also available in PDF
(2 MB) Opens in new window
– 286 –

Additional.

In Species Hepaticarum 4, 190, Stephani ascribes the Norfolk Island species, Radula mittenii St., to New Zealand. I have not yet met with any plant that corresponds with his description and drawing. According to these, the plantmay be 5 cm. long, the leaf re-

Picture icon

Fig. 1—R. allisonii. Figs. 2–3—R. sainsburiana. Fig. 4—R. plicata. Fig. 5—R. helmsiana. Fig. 6—R. buccinifera. Fig. 7—R. papulosa. Fig. 8—R. physoloba. Fig. 9—R. marginata. Fig. 10—R. uvifera. Fig. 11—R. silvosa. Fig. 12—R. grandis. Fig. 13—R. levieri. Fig. 14—R. dentata. blank

– 287 –

sembling that of R. levieri, and the perianth that of R. buccinifera, but it differs from both these species in the lobule which has the free portion of the lobule base ampliate, and partly covering the stem. A specimen in Herb. Petrie, No. 131, determined by Stephani as R. mittenii, is R. levieri.

Radula albipes Col., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 21, p. 71, 1888, is Lejeunia nudipes. Tayl, according to Stepheni in his Revision of Colenso's New Zealand Hepaticae, and from the description, this appears to be correct.

Previous Article | Table of Contents | Next Article