280 Transactions. — Botany. 



Hab. Bocks, Moa Creek ; 1885. Named in honour of Pro- 

 fessor Hutton, of Christchurch. 



Andreaea aquatica, sp. nov. Plates XXIII. and XXIY. 



Plants growing in large loose tufts from lin. to 4in. long. 

 Branches flexuous, long. Leaves large, spreading, very crisp, 

 brownish -green, glossy, middle broadly-ovate or subrotund, 

 upper broadly ovate-acuminate, concave, margins entire, nerve- 

 less, scarcely altered when dry ; perichaetial very large, erect, 

 outer lanceolate, acuminate, concave, inner sheathing, convo- 

 lute, oblong- lanceolate, acuminate, incurved from the middle, 

 nerveless. Capsule very large. 



Hab. Growing submerged in water on stones in a small 

 stream on Kelly's Hill, Westland, at an altitude of 3,500ft.; 

 November, 1889. 



The most beautiful of all the New Zealand Andreaeas, being 

 finely crisped, and of a shining brown and green colour. 



Andreaea dicranioides, sp. nov. Plate XXV. 



Plants growing in dense tufts, fastigiate, Jin. to fin. long. 

 Leaves red-brown, imbricating, secund, strongly falcate, base 

 concave, narrowly-ovate or linear, tapering rapidly into a long 

 slender point four-fifths of the length of the leaves, nerve 

 slender, sometimes nearly absent. Specimen not in fruit. 



Hab. Eocks on side of small tarn below Lake Mintaro, 

 Clinton Valley ; 1889. 



Andresea ovalifolia, sp. nov. Plate XXV. 



Plants growing in dense tufts from Jin. to 2in. long. Stems 

 slightly fastigiately branched. Leaves spreading, large, dark- 

 brown, scale-like at the base, middle oval, upper oval, shortly 

 acute or broadly ovate-acute, concave, nerve broad ending 

 about middle, margins entire, appressed when dry ; peri- 

 chaetial large, erect, broadly-ovate, ending in a small point, 

 margins entire, nerveless. 



Hab. Port Hills, on rocks; October, 1883. Mount Tor- 

 lesse ; January, 1886. Waimakariri glaciers ; 1890. Mount 

 Bosquet; 1888. 



Andresea apiculata, sp. nov. Plate XXVI. 



Plant loosely tufted, from lin. to Hin. long, slightly 

 branched. Branches slender, fastigiate. Leaves erecto- 

 patent, brownish-green, shining, loiver scale-like, middle ovate- 

 oblong or obovate, rounded into a short acute point, concave, 

 nerve disappearing near the middle, margins entire, upper 

 very large, broadly-lanceolate, acute, nerve disappearing at 

 the middle, margins entire, very concave, appressed when dry ; 



