140 Transactions. — Botany. 



4. Bartramia rotousta, Hook. f. and Wils. 



Plants moncecious, growing in tuftsin patches 2 in. high, 

 pale- or yellowish -green, radiculose. Stem fastigiately 

 branched. Branches -^^in. high. Leaves imbricating, spread- 

 ing from an erect sheathing quadrate base, linear lanceolate 

 or subulate, semiconvolute, somewhat brittle ; margins ser- 

 rated, paj)illose on the back ; nerve excurrent. Areola : 

 Upper dense, quadrate; lower oblong; scarcely altered when 

 dry. Perichatial leaves short, slender, erect, subulate. Fruit 

 acrocarpous. Fruitstalk slightly flexuous, red, -^in. high. 

 Cajjstde inclined, subrotund, slightly oblique. Mouth small. 



Hah. Wet rocks, Mount Torlesse ; January, 1886. Col- 

 lected by E. B. 



5. Bartramia hallerianioides, sp. nov. 



Plants synoecious, growing in large tufts 1 in. -5 in. high, 

 green or yellowish-green above, brownisli below, radiculose, 

 sparingly branched. Branches projecting above the capsules. 

 Leaves imbricating, spreading, subulate ; base erect, quadri- 

 lateral sheathing papillose ; margins spinulose, serrated ; 

 nerve excurrent, spinulose, serrated on the back, crisped 

 when dry. Areola : Upper small, quadrate ; lower linear. 

 Perichatial leaves small, erect, tapering into a long slender 

 point, i^rwii acrocarpous. Fruitstalk red, i in. long. Cap- 

 sule oblique, subrotund. Operculum short, conic. Peristome 

 double ; outer teeth 16, lanceolate, dense ; inner, a membrane 

 divided for two-thirds of its length into 16 keeled teeth, 

 bifid at the apex. Calyptra small, cucullate. 



Hah. Wet rocks, Port Lyttelton hills, and common near 

 Lake Te Anau. Collected by R. B. 



6. Bartramia papillata, Hook. f. and Wils. 



Plants dioecious, growing in small tufts, pale-green , ^ in.-^ in . 

 high. Stems slightly radiculose, branched. Branches fasti- 

 giate, fin. long. Leaves imbricating, slender, erecto-patent, 

 subulate from a narrow erect sheathing .quadrilateral base, 

 auricled at the apex, semiconvolute, minutely serrated on the 

 margin, and papillose on the back ; nerve excurrent. Areola : 

 Upper small, quadrate, dense ; lower oblong. Perichatial 

 leaves erect, smaller thai:i the stem ones, slender, subulate 

 from an oblong-lanceolate base. Fruit acrocarpous. Fruit- 

 stalk Yo in., inclined. Capsule rotund, oblique. Mouth small, 

 oblique. Peristome double ; outer teeth 16, free to the base ; 

 inner, a membrane divided to the middle into 16 teeth. 

 Operculum and calyptra not found. 



Hah. Wet banks. West Coast Road ; January, 1886. Col- 

 lected by R. B. 



