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patent, linear-lanceolate, tapering into a slender point, semi- 

 convolute ; base erect, short, sheathing ; margins papillose, 

 strongly recurved, papillose on back and nerve; nerve excm-- 

 rent. Areola : Upper small to near the base, dense ; lower 

 small, quadrilateral ; leaves erect, and points of the branches 

 cuspidate when dry. PerichcBtial leaves small, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, apiculate. Fruit acrocarpous. Fruitstalk ^in. to ^in. 

 long, curved at the apex. Capsule ovate, pendulous, variable 

 in breadth, furrowed when dry. Peristome single, 16, slender, 

 distinct. Operculum conic. 



Hab. Wet rocks. Port Lyttelton hills ; 1886. Collected by 

 E. B. and by Donald Petrie. 



11. Bartramia comosa, Mitt. 



Plants dioecious, growing in dense patches, yellowish- 

 brown above, brown below, 1 in. -2 in. high, densely radiculose, 

 subfastigiately branched. Branches ^ in. -fin. long. Leaves 

 closely imbricating, spreading, upper ones slightly sheathing, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; middle ones shortly sheathing ; 

 margins sHghtly recurved at the middle, serrulate towards the 

 apex, papillose, plicate near the base; nerve excurrent, long, 

 slender. Areola small, dense, above quadrilateral, below linear, 

 erect when dry. Perichcetial leaves erect, one-half smaller 

 than the upper ones, deltoid, acuminate ; nerve disappearing 

 below the apex. Fruit acrocarpous. Fruitstalk |-in.-|in. 

 long, curved at the apex. Capsule elliptic, horizontal, or 

 pendulous, furrowed when dry. Operculum small, conic, 

 minutely apiculate. Peristome double ; outer 16, linear- 

 lanceolate ; inner, membranous. 



Hah. Wet rocks, Beaumont ; October, 1891 : D. Petrie. 



12. Bartramia bellii, sp. nov. 



Plants growing in dense patches 2 in. high. Si!e»ts radi- 

 culose, subdichotomously branched or nearly simple, unequal 

 in length, fin. -fin. Leaves closely imbricating, spreading, 

 or erecto-patent from a short erect sheathing-base, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, tapering into a slender point ; margins 

 minutely toothed, slightly recurved near the base, minutely 

 papillose ; nerve excurrent ; leaves not plicate. Areola : 

 Upper small, linear, becoming longer towards the base. 

 Perichcetial leaves shorter than the upper ones, erect, oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapering into a slender point ; nerve ending about 

 the middle. Fruit acrocarpous. Fruitstalk flexuous, 1 in. 

 long, curved at the apex. Capsule broadly ovate, oblong, 

 furrowed w^hen dry. 



Hab. Wet rocks, near Lake Harris; February, 1895. 

 Collected by W. Bell. 



