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Localities: Waipoua Kauri Forest, between Dargaville and Opononi, 1,200ft., 651, V. W. Lindauer, Aug., 1939; bank of stream in forest, head of Crooked Reach, Pegasus, Stewart Island, January, 1949, 511 in part, W. M. No. 2130 Herb. Hodgson. Type, at base of rewa-rewa trunk, Forestry Camp. Great Barrier Island, 10/4/52, 39, Ron Lloyd, No. 8433 Herb. E. A. H. Acknowledgments The loan of the following types from Stephani's Herbarium, Geneva, per Dr. Prof. Charles Baehni, is gratefully acknowledged; Bazzania Hochstetteri, B. lacerata, B. Kirkiana, B. spectabile; also a small packet of specimens from Montagne's Herbarium, loaned by Professor Heim and Madame Jovet-Ast. My thanks also to the collectors for numerous specimens received. Literature Consulted Colenso, Rev. W., 1885. A Description of Some Newly Discovered Cryptogamic Plants. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 18, 245–247. —— 1886. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 19, 287–294. —— 1888. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 21, 66–68. Evans, A. W., 1900. A New Genus of Hepaticae from the Hawaiian Islands. Bull. Torrey Club 27, 97–104. —— 1934. A Revision of the Genus Acromastigum. Annales Bryologici Supp. Vol., iii, The Hague. Fulford, M., 1946. The Genus Bazzania in Central and South America. Annales Cryptogam. and Phytopath, iii, Waltham. Gottsche, C. M., Lindenberg, Lindenberg. J. B. G., et Nees ab Esenbeck, 1844–1847, Synopsis Hepaticarum, including Supplement, Hamburg. Hooker, Sir J. D., 1867. Handb. N.Z. Fl., ii, London. Lindenberg, J. B. G., et Gottsche, C. M., 1851. Species Hepaticarum, Fasc., viii-xi, Bonn. Macvicar, S. M., 1927. The Students' Handbook of British Hepatics, London. Mitten, W., 1853–1855. Flora Novae Zelandiae, ii, London. Rodway, L., 1916. Tasmania Bryophyta, ii, Hepatics. Papers & Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., Hobart. Sim, T. R., 1926. The Bryophyta of South Africa. Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa, Capetown. Stephani, Fr., 1892. Colenso's New Zealand Hepaticae. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot., 29, 263–280. —— 1909. Species Hepaticarum, iii, Geneva. —— Icones Hepaticarum Unpublished Hand-drawings of Species. Taylor, T., 1844. Hepat. Antarc., Lond. Journ. of Bot., London. —— 1847. Flora Antarctica, London.