SOME MOSSES OF NEW ZEALAND. 433 
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On some Mosses of New Zealand. 
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х, М.А., F.L.8. 
Dy Huen Nevite DIXO 
(PLATES 20 & 21.) 
[Read 7th December, 1911. 
Tug Mosses dealt with in the following pages were for the most part 
collected by Mr. James Murray, during the visit of the * Nimrod,’ on the 
British Antarctie Expedition, 1907-9, in two separate districts—(1) the moist 
subtropical bush on the Waitakarei Hills, 12 to 20 miles N.W. of Auckland, 
in the North T. ; (2) a limited area of the Mt. Cook district in the South I., 
at heights ranging from 2500 to 5000 ft. A small but interesting gathering 
was made by Dr. Mackay at about 6000 ft. on the Nun's Veil Mt. in the 
latter district. TI have also from time to time received collections of mosses 
from several collectors, made in different parts of New Zealand ; and while 
it has not seemed desirable to give any extensive list of these collections 
here, Г have included a certain number of them, either from their special 
interest as contributing additional knowledge to the bryology of New 
Zealand, or on account of light thrown by them on plants included in 
Mr. Murray’s collections, either from the point of view of distribution 
or other causes. 
The principal of these collections are as follows :—(«) A number of plants 
sent me from time to time collected by Mr. W. Gray in the neighbourhood 
of Mauriceville, Wairarapa, North I., some of them of the highest interest ; 
(5) a collection made by Miss Е. W. Blackwell near Кагеро, Paparoa, 
Kaipara, to the north of Auckland, North 1., in the spring of 1904; 
(c) several small gatherings by Mr. Arthur Perry, from the Окап River, 
near Levin, Horowenua, North I. ; (d) a collection sent me by Mr. W. H. 
Burrell, made by Mr. Chas. J. Burgess near Hunterville, Rangitikei, 
North I., in 1905: (е) a further collection made by Mr. J. Meiklejohn, 
from Lake Wakatipu, South I., in 1904, and sent me by Цех. D. Lillie. 
Although the total number of species comprised in Mr. Murray’s collections 
and the others referred to does not bear a large proportion to the total moss- 
flora of New Zealand, their contribution to the bryology of the Islands is by 
no means unimporiant. The moss-flora of New Zealand, like that of the 
higher plants, may be divided generally into three categories :—(1) The 
Malay-Australian, (2) the endemic, (3) the Antarctic-Fuegian. The mosses 
dealt with in this report make some, perhaps small, but not by any means 
insignificant, contribution to each of these categories. If, as І presume is a 
fair assumption, any species ascertained to be common to Tasmania (or 
