Brown. — On New Zealand Musci. 143 



13. Bartramia sieberi, Mitt. 



Plants dioecious, ^rowing in dense patches 4i-in. high, 

 yellowish - green above, brown below. Stem radiculose, 

 branched, simple or dichotomous, iin.-lin. long. Leaves 

 short, closely imbricating, spreading, and erecto-patent, subu- 

 late from a short broad sheathing-base, lanceolate, concave, 

 plicate; margins serrated, recurved near the base, papillose 

 on the back; nerve excurrent. Areola: Upper small, quad- 

 rate ; lower narrow, oblong ; scarcely altered when dry. Feri- 

 chcBtial leaves short, erect, deltoid, acute ; nerve slender, ex- 

 current. Fruit acrocarpous. Fruitstalk flexuous, red, l|-in. 

 long. Capsule horizontal or pendulous, furrowed when dry, 

 oblong, pyriform. Peristome double ; outer 16, linear-lanceo- 

 late ; inner, membranous, 16. Operculum shortly conic. 

 Calyptra cucullate. 



Hab. Eocks, banks of Teremakau Eiver. 



Section B. 



'Leaves without sheathing -bases. 



14. Bartramia hapuka, sp. nov. Plate XV. 



Plants growing in dense patches l^in. high, yellowish- 

 green above, brown below. Stems radiculose, 1-J-in. high; 

 innovations fascicled. Leaves closely imbricating, small, 

 erecto-patent, ovate, acuminate, concave ; margins recurved, 

 serrated ; nerve excurrent. Areola small, quadrilateral ; 

 leaves erect when dry. Perichatial leaves similar to the 

 upper ones. Fruit acrocarpous. Fruitstalk pale, fin. long, 

 flexuous. Capsule inclined very obliquely, subrotund. 

 Mouth small, oblique, furrowed when dry. Peristome double ; 

 outer teeth 16 ; inner shorter than the outer, membranous, 

 divided into 16 processes. Operculum convex. Calyptra cu- 

 cullate. 



Hab. Wet banks. River Hapuka, near Kaikoura ; January, 

 1898. Collected by R. B. 



15. Bartramia er-winii, sp. nov. 



Plants dicecious, growing in dense patches ^in.-lin. 

 high, yellow-green above, brown below. Stems slender, radi- 

 culose ; innovations fascicled, fin. Leaves small, closely 

 imbricating, secund, erecto-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 ending in slender points ; margins slightly recurved, ser- 

 rated, nerved, keeled, excurrent. Areola quadrate ; leaves 

 scarcely altered when dry. Perichcetial, leaves smaller than 

 the stem ones, otherwise sinAlar. Fruit acrocarpous. Fruit- 

 stalk fin. long, flexuous, reddish. Capsule ovate, inclined, 

 obliquely connected with the fruitstalk. Mouth oblique, fur- 

 rowed when dry. Peristome double ; outer teeth 16, free to 



