Brown. — On New Zealand Musci. 147 



chatial leaves erect, smaller than the upper ones, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, tapering into a slender point, innermost smallest. 

 Fruit acrocarpous. Fruitstalk flexuous, red, 1^ in. long. 

 Capsule inclined, obliquely pyriform, gibbous near the base. 

 Mouth small, oblique. Capsule furrowed when dry. Peri- 

 stome double ; outer teeth 16, free to the base, linear-lanceo- 

 late; inner, membranous, 16. per ciilmn noi ionndi. 



Hah. West Coast Eoad ; February, 1883. Collected by 

 E. B. 



24. Bartratnia pendula, Hook. 



Plants dioecious, growing in dense patches lin.-3|-in. 

 high, yellowish-green above, brown below. Stems erect, radi- 

 culose ; innovations fascicled, f in.-l;^ in. long. Leaves closely 

 imbricating, erecto-patent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, taper- 

 ing into a slender point ; margins serrated ; nerve slender, 

 excurrent, under-surface ptipillose. Areola : Upper small, 

 quadrate ; lower linear ; leaves incurving when dry. Peri- 

 chcetial leaves erect, smaller than the upper ones, linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, tapered into a slender point. Fruit acrocar- 

 pous. Fruitstalk tlexuous, red, l^in. long. Capsiile hori- 

 zontal or pendulous, oblong-pyriform, furrowed when dry. 

 Operculum convex. Peristome double ; outer 16, free to the 

 base ; inner, membranous, bifid to the middle. 



Hab. Damp banks, Milford Sound ; January, 1890. Col- 

 lected by E. B. 



25. Bartramia elongata, j\i 



Plants dioecious, growing in large loose patches 2 in. -7 in. 

 high, yellow-green. Stems very stout, curved, prostrate, 

 ascending ; innovations simple or dichotomously branched. 

 Leaves closely imbricating, secund, spreading or erecto-patent, 

 recurved, falcate, furrowed, pellucid, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate ; margins distantly toothed ; nerve slender, excurrent 

 into a papillose hair-point. Areola oblong-linear ; alar large, 

 quadrate ; leaves scarcely altered when dry. Perichatial 

 leaves smaller, erect, linear-lanceolate, innermost acute, outer 

 acuminate with a short hair-point, nerveless. Fruit acrocar- 

 pous. Fruitstalk stout, red, slightly flexuous. Capsule hori- 

 zontal, large, oblong, pyriform, slightly gibbous at the base, 

 furrowed when dry. Peristome single, 16, with membranous 

 margins. Operculum and calyptra not found. 



Hah. Wet rocks, near Teremakau Eiver ; January, 1886 ; 

 and near Lake Te Anau ; January, 1890. Collected by E. B. 



