or reddish, terminal, as long as the stem, slender, rigid, fleshy, with scattered rootlets, descending perpendicularly or sloping. Sporogonium in a club-shaped hollow at the base. ♂ plants smaller, apparently dying after releasing the antheridia. These are solitary in the concave basal portion of the perigonial leaves, orange, more oval than spherical, shortly stalked.

No previous mention of the gemmae appears to have been made.

Mr. K. W. Allison, who watched the development of the fructification over a considerable period, observed that the sporogonium in the form of a little bulb became detached as the upper portion rotted, but was unable to discover whether it sent up a stalked capsule or whether the capsule merely liberated its spores, which would be later brought to the surface by moisture, etc. This also applies to the sporogonium of Acrobolbus unguiculatus.

What appears to be an aquatic form is from Kaitaia, North Auckland, mixed with Sphagnum sp., coll. H. B. Matthews. The stem is somewhat elongate and the leaves soft and scarcely imbricate, to remote.

According to Mitten, the above plant is the same species as Riccia squmata, Podanthe squamata and Jungermannia pansa, all collected by Drummond in the Swan River District, Western Australia, and named and described by Taylor in the London Journal of Botany, 1846. But why Mitten changed the specific name, or why it has not been changed back again, I am unable to say. In this country it is very variable, and I do not agree with Berggren, who would foist on to New Zealand a Tasmanian doubtful species, S. concinna (Mitt.) St. Berggren avers that S. drummondii has leaves longitudinally inserted, and that this is the main distinction between this species and S. concinna. But this is quite at variance with Mitten's plate in the Flora Novae Zelandiae, in which the leaf insertion is shown as markedly oblique. As a matter of fact, I have yet to see a specimen of Symphyomitra with longitudinally affixed leaves, though I do not doubt that the angle of insertion may vary.

In addition to numerous gatherings from the Wairoa Hills, I have three: from swampy ground near Atiamuri; also from rather open bank facing south, Kaingaroa S.F. Plantation (gemmiferous); in shade of tussocks on a flat, near Rangitaiki, all coll. K. W. Allison. In grass, shady side of Mount Drury, Tauranga, E. A. Hodgson.

Symphyomitra grandifolia (Berggr.) St.

Lethocolea grandifolia Berggr., N.Z. Hep., 26, 1898.

Sym. grandifolia St., Spec. Hep., ii, 107.

Plants pale green, terrestrial in association with Isotachis subtrifida and Lepidozia cavernarum Herz. Stems ca. 1.5 cm., prostrate, densely matted in a wad of hair-like rhizoids, simple, the upper portion in some cases rose, and terminating in 1 or 2 rose-coloured, somewhat flattened, juvenile marsupia with a very dense tuft of rhizoids on the under surface. Leaves imbricate, sub-orbicular, a little under 2 mm., with a broader base, flimsy, cellular, margins somewhat undulate when dry, obliquely inserted, alternate, may be a little concave. Cells large, hexagonal, 40–50 μ, basal elongate to 100 μ