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455 МИ, И, N. DIXON ON SOME 
Var. FILIFORMIS (Drid.).  Waitakarei Hills (Murray, No. 85). Growing 
on rocks ; a very slender form with the leaves only slightly faleate, but with 
quite the habit of var. #liformis, and I think best referred there. 
№. CHRYSOGASTER (C. Muell.), Mitt. Waitakarei Hills (Murray, No. 1). 
IsoPTERYGIUM PULCHELLUM, var. NITIDULUM. (Wahl), Lesq. & James. 
Mt. Cook district (Murray, No. 78), сЁг. Both Brotherus and Paris exclude 
New Zealand from the distribution of this species, which is admitted doubt- 
fully by Hooker in the * Handbook’; the question simply being the identity 
of the plant with the European опе. The characters, however, that Hooker 
gives in that work as distinguishing the New Zealand plant are only slight 
ones of habit, and, indeed, while they indicate a difference from Z. pulchellum 
they accord exactly with the var. itidulum, with which Mr. Murray’s plant 
entirely agrees. 
CarAGoNIUM PoLITUM (Hook. f. & Wils.), Dus. Mt. Cook district (Murray, 
No. 90) ; Mauriceville, Wairarapa, North T. (Gray, No. 60). 
DRACHYTHEGCIACE/E, 
SRACHYTHECIUM nUTABULUM (Linn.), Bruch & Schimp. Waitakarei Hills 
(Murray, Nos. 3, 58), c.fr. 
Var. ropustum, Bruch & Schimp. Mt. Cook district (Murray, No. 124). 
A closely pinnate plant, with large striate leaves, which seems best referred 
to this variety. 
В. SALEBROSUM (Hoffin.), Bruch & Schimp. Mt. Cook district (Murray, 
No. 71). This appears to be new to New Zealand, though recorded from 
Tasmania *. 
D. phumosum (Sw.), Bruch & Schimp. Mt. Cook district (Murray, 
No. 107). 
B. parapoxum (Hook. f. & Wils), Jaeg. Mt. Cook district (Murray, 
Nos. 73, st. ; 88, c.r. ; 109, efr.) Some of the stems have the leaves 
almost erect and straight, when the plant looks much like B. salebrosim, with 
which it was growing; this is, however, distinguished by its finely pointed, 
entire or subentire leaves, as well as by the smooth seta, 
RHYNCHOSTEGIUM ARISTATUM (Hook. f. & Wils), Jaeg. — Mauriceville, 
Wairarapa, North 1. (Gray, No. 36), cfr. 
* Since writing the above I have received from the Rev. С. Н. Dinstead a specimen 
labelled “ No. 293. Hypnum salebrosum, Hoffm., var. integrifolium, Broth. ; on trees, Evans 
‚ Kowai, Canterbury, N. Z., Apr. 1892; det. Brotherus ; leg. T. W. Naylor Beckett.” 
I am not aware whether the variety has been published. 
Bush 
