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NEW ZEALAND, TASMANIA, ETC. 85 
XI. HxPNACEX. 
1. METEORIUM, Brid. 
M. ruLvuM (Mitten). Ramis gracilibus flexuosis, ramulis remotis at- 
tenuatis flexuosis pinnatis, foliis subnitentibus luteis state fulvis 
patentibus e basi lata cordata alis amplexantibus hastatis sensim 
tenuiter acuminatis marginibus hic illic undulatis basi ad alas serru- 
latis superne minutissime serrulatis apicem versus integerrimis nervo 
brevi infra medium in carinam parvam latiusculam ultra medium ex- 
aratam evanido ramulinis minus tenuiter acuminatis distinctius ser- 
rulatis cellulis elongatis fusiformibus angustissimis distinctis minu- 
tissime papillosis sublzvibus. 
Hab. Australia, Victoria, Tarwin, Dr. F. Mueller. 
A slender species, allied to the Indian M. aureum, but with its leaves 
attenuated into longer points. 
2. Нурхом, Dill. 
* Brachythecium, Schimp. 
H. rutabulum, L. 
Hab. Tasmania, on trees, Long Hill, Mr. Archer. 
H. paradoxum, Hook. fil. et Wils. 
Hab. Tasmania, Cheshunt, Mr. Archer. 
H. campestre, B. & S. 
Hab. Tasmania, near Woolmers, Mr. Archer. 
Н. aristatum, Hook. fil. et Wils. Fl. Tasmanica ined. 
Hab. Tasmania, Mr. Archer. New Zealand, Mr. Knight. 
In size resembling H. Buchanani, but in the form of its leaves allied 
to H. Vaucheri and to H. piliferum, and agreeing with them in the cell- 
Structure of its leaves and rostrate operculum. 
** Rhynchostegium et Eurhynchium, Schimp. 
H. AsPERIPES (Mitten). Monoicum, caule procumbente, ramis pin- 
natis, foliis patentibus latissime ovatis acuminatis serrulatis nervo 
tenui medio evanido cellulis longitudine circiter 41; latitudine $009 
unciz metientibus, perichetialibus latis in acumen breve attenuatis, 
theca in pedunculo sub-unciali aspero oblongo-ovali horizontali, 
operculo longirostrato, peristomio normali. 
Hab. Tasmania, Cheshunt, Mr. Archer. | 
More densely branched and with more acuminated leaves {һап 
H. hians, Hedw., to which in size and general appearance it is nearly 
allied, 
H. tenuifolium, Hedw. 
Hab. Tasmania, on stones and logs, Tent's Creek, Mr. Archer. 
This species appears to be frequent in Tasmania. and New Zealand, 
some of the specimens from whence agree exactly with Hedwig's figure 
in the * Species Muse.’ 
