292 Transactions. — Botany. 



Zygodon integrifolius, sp. nov. Plate XXXVII. 



Autoicous. In soft, dense, green cushions, dark-brown 

 below, sparingly branched. Leaves patent and recurved, 

 curled and contorted when dry, linear, very acuminate, keeled ; 

 margins plane, quite entire, nerve stout, concolorous, vanishing 

 within the apex. Cells at the base rectangular, not hyaline, 

 gradually merging into minute, square, somewhat obscure cells. 

 Perichsetial leaves long, ovate, tapering gradually to a fine 

 point, cells rectangular, uniform over the whole leaf. Seta 

 short, curved. Capsule gymnostomous, just showing above the 

 leaves, oval-pyriform, brown, marked with 8 darker striae, 

 when dry contracted below the mouth, grooved, urceolate. 

 Operculum flat, with a blunt oblique beak. Calyptra small, 

 cucullate, only covering the top of the capsule, fugaceous. 

 Male inflorescence gemmaceous, axillary below the perichaetial 

 leaves, bracts 3-4 ovate-acuminate, nerved, antheridia few, 

 paraphyses none. 



Hab. In crevices and fissures of rocks in sheltered situa- 

 tions. 



hoc. Benmore, Canterbury; alt., 4,000ft.; November, 

 1890; No. 297 (named by Dr. K. Midler). Thirteen-mile 

 Bush; September, 1892. Studholme Bush, Waimate ; April, 

 1892 ; T. W. N. B. Glenorchy, Lake Wakatipu ; January, 

 1890; W.Bell. 



Nearly allied to the European Zygodon lapponicus , 



B. and S. 



Climacium novse-seelandise, sp. nov. Plate XXXVIII. 



Primary stem creeping, sending up erect dendroid stems, 

 which are densely covered with matted roots and broad closely- 

 appressed leaves. Branches generally simple, sometimes 

 slightly pinnate, growing on all sides round the top of the stem, 

 the lower branches longest. Leaves thickly inserted all round 

 the branches, plicate, margins flat. Leaves of stem broad, 

 cordate at base, the apex rounded, very concave, quite entire, 

 nerved three-quarters of their length. Branch-leaves from a 

 cordate base, broadly ovate, concave, tapering towards the 

 apex, obtusely pointed, almost entire, nerve vanishing within 

 the apex. Leaves towards the ends of the branches and of 

 branchlets narrower ovate-lanceolate, apex obtuse and yery 

 coarsely toothed, nerve vanishing within the apex. Cells 

 slightly enlarged at the basal angles ; the cells at the base of 

 the leaf bright yellow-brown ; cells of leaf long, ends pointed. 

 Fruit not seen. 



Loc. Castle Hill, North Canterbury ; T. Kirk. 



This handsome moss has the habit and appearance of the 

 European Climacium dcndroides. The leaves are, however, 

 different. 



