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Ankistrodesmus acutissimus.
Ankistrodesmusfalcatus.
Ankistrodesmussp.*
Ankistrodesmussp.*
Scenedesmus acutus.
Scendesmus var. dimorphus.
Scendesmus obliquus.
Scendesmus obtusus.




DESCRIPTION OF PLATES XXIV. AND XXV.

Fig.  1 Cosmarium ralfsii, var. β ×  350.
{{{1}}}  2 Cosmarium thwaitesii ×  700.
{{{1}}}  3 Cosmarium pusillum, dividing × 1000.
{{{1}}}  4 Cosmarium gemmiferum (a, front view × 350: b, end view × 400)
{{{1}}}  5 Cosmarium obsoletum, var. punctatum (a, front view: b, end view) ×  350.
{{{1}}}  6 Cosmarium speciosum, var. inflatum (a, front view: b, side view) ×  450.
{{{1}}}  7 Cosmarium cyclicum, var. ampliatum (a, front view: b, end view) ×  350.
{{{1}}}  8 Cosmarium tetraophthalmum, var. β (a, conjugation with zygospore: b, front view: c, end view) ×  350.
{{{1}}}  9 Cosmarium undulatum, var. β ×  700.
{{{1}}} 10 Cosmarium tenue (a, front view: b, end view) ×  700.
{{{1}}} 11 Staurastrum eustephanum, var. emarginatum (a, side view: b end view) ×  700.
{{{1}}} 12 Staurastrum clepsydra (a, b, side view: c, d, e, f, end view: g, zygospore?) ×  400.
{{{1}}} 13 Staurastrum furcigerum (a, 5-rayed: b, 6-rayed) ×  350.
{{{1}}} 14 Closterium grimthii, two sizes ×  400.
{{{1}}} 15 Cosmarium crenatum, N.Z. form ×  400.
{{{1}}} 16 Micrasterias rotata, N.Z. forms (a, sharp teeth: b, truncate teeth: c, end lobe x 350: d, comparative sizes N.Z. and English forms) ×  200.
{{{1}}} 17 Staurastrum gracile, N.Z. form ×  400.
{{{1}}} 18 Closterium acerosum (a, fronds with varying arms: b, the same with zygospore) ×   90.
{{{1}}} 19 Closterium selenasum, effect of glycerine ×   60.
{{{1}}} 20 Scenedesums acutus ×  400.
{{{1}}} 21 Holocystis (Tetrachastrum) incisa, abnormal ×  200.
{{{1}}} 22 Docidium clavatum, abnormal ×   90.




Art. XXXII.—On a new Composite Plant. By Robert Brown.

Communicated by Professor Hutton.

[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 30th November, 1882.]


Glossogyne (?) hennedyi, sp. nov.

Plant a small excessively and irregularly branched under-shrub, from 6 to 12 inches high. Stem short, terete; bark pale brown; upper branches very slender, tetragonous, furrowed, bright green, hispid with stiff hairs. Leaves alternate, distant, from ¼ to ⅓ inch in length, sessile, linear-acute or subspathulate, entire or bi- or tridentate, midrib pellucid; under surface with short stiff hairs; upper or bract leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, small. Flower heads yellow ⅜ inch in diameter, single, terminal on the end of a short peduncle; receptacle conical, chaffy. Involucre campanulate: bracts equal, in two rows, the outer linear, blunt, with a tuft of rigid hairs at the