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gemmiparous: stems show at first sight a resemblance to Aulacomnium, but 
the structure of the сетте is quite different, and the capitulum is enclosed 
in bracts resembling those of Tetraphis but smaller. Gemmiparous branches 
are not wanting on the fertile plant. 
It occurs among other mosses and Нерайех on the stems of trees in 
shady positions, associated especially with a species of Orthotrichum and 
Cryphwa acuminata. 
NECKERACE Д. 
Wrymournta MOLLIS (Hedw.), Broth. ^ Waitakarei Hills (Murray, 
No. 47). The ordinary form, Another gathering (No. 24), represented by 
a single tuft, is a very different plant, pale green but not whitish, more 
robust and more rigid, with less elongate, more closely branched stems. It 
is midway in size between W. mollis and W. Billardieri, with the habit of the 
latter and the leaves of the former. It may possibly be a new species, but 
in the absence of fruit and the small quantity of material it is better perhaps 
to leave it in abeyance at present. The only specimen I have seen at all 
approaching it is a specimen in Herb. Mus. Brit.: © N. Z., Dr. Stanger, 
comm. Dr. Balfour, 1842," in herb. G. J. Lyon, which has the greener 
colour and more rigid habit, but is smaller, not indeed very much more 
robust than the normal plant. 
W. Виллвртевг (Hampe), Broth. Waitakarei Hills (Murray, No. 39), 
сїт. Mt. Cook district (Murray, No. 128). I have also had fine specimens 
in fruit sent me by Mr. Ar. Perry from Inglewood, Taranaki, North I., 
gathered in Jan. 1902. 
PAPILLARIA FILIPENDULA (Hook. f. & Wils.), Jaeg. Waitakarei Hills 
(Murray, No. 55). I find the greatest difficulty in separating P. jilipendula 
from P. flewicaulis (Tayl.), Jaeg. According to Brotherus, P. filipendula 
should have the leaves only slightly auricled and unbordered, and P. flewi- 
caulis, on the other hand, wide auricles and a narrow colourless border reaching 
some way up the leaves; further, according to Bastow, the auricles of 
P. filipendula ате serrulate, and those of P. flerieavlis subentire. I find, 
however, in No. 55 the auricles toothed, but the pale border present, and 
the same is the case with a plant sent me by Miss E. W. Blackwell 
from Kaipara, in 1904 (No. 30) ; so that Bastow’s distinction appears to be 
valueless. Murray’s No. 55 has the leaves entire, scarcely auricled, and 
without border ; it should therefore, as well as the Kaipara plant, according 
to Brotherus, belong to P. filipendula. 
Терторох Змигни, Brid. Mt. Cook district (Murray, No. 64). A robust 
plant, which apparently does not coil up when dry to the same extent as 
the European plant does. 
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