298 Transactions. — Botany. 



In 1889 Mr. William Bell, of Pine Hill, Dunedin, sent a 

 collection of mosses, chiefly belonging to the family Ortho- 

 trichece, to Mr. Mitten for identification. Mr. Bell has kindly 

 placed Mr. Mitten's letter and notes at my disposal, and sup- 

 plied me with type specimens of the mosses. Mr. T. Kirk has 

 lately allowed me to examine an interesting collection of 

 seventy-nine Westland mosses, made by Mr. B. Helms, of 

 Greymouth, in 1882. They were sent that year to Dr. Karl 

 Midler for determination, and he decided that thirty-six were 

 new to science. These he has named ; but he tells me, in a 

 letter which I have recently received from him, that they 

 have not yet been described, and have not been published. 



"With the material these collections afforded me, and a few 

 mosses derived from other sources, I am enabled to enumerate 

 fourteen mosses not hitherto included in the New Zealand 

 flora. 



Blindia robusta, Hampe. 



" Casspitosa, robusta, sesquiuncialis parce ramosa, folia 

 maxime falcata integerrima, nervo piano evanescente, cellulis 

 linearibus versus apicem densioribus flavescentibus, echloro- 

 phyllosis, alaribus grandibus subquadratis hyalinis ; seta 

 crassa semiuncialis flavescens, theca subrotundo-ovalis, coria- 

 cea fusco-rubra suberecta, operculo conico-obliquo crasso sub- 

 ulato thecam dimidiam aequante pallidiore, dentibus peristomii 

 latioribus membranaceis inflexis plus minusve regulariter 

 divisis. Hab. In Alpibus Austr., Mount Munyang." — " Lin- 

 naea," 1859-60, p. 627. F. von Midler's "Analytical Draw- 

 ings of Australian Mosses," tab. 7. 



Autoicous. Male inflorescence bud-like, terminal in a 

 branch below the female inflorescence, bracts obovate ab- 

 ruptly contracted into a lanceolate point, antheridia numerous 

 (23). 



Hab. On old moraine at the base of the Waimakariri 

 Glacier ; 1889 ; B. Brown. 



I have authentic specimens of B. robusta from Mr. Sullivan, 

 collected in snowy watercourses, Mount Kosciusko, New South 

 Wales, which enabled me to identify this moss. 



Grimmia leucophsea, Greville, in Trans. Werner Soc, iv., f. 6. 

 Grimmia leiocarpa, Taylor. 



Beadily known from the other New Zealand species of 

 Grimmia by its very rough hair-points. A cosmopolitan 

 species. 



Hab. On boulders, Dyer's Pass, Lyttelton Hills ; No. 114 ; 

 1888; T. W. N. B. Banks of the Clutha, Otago; 1891; W. 

 Bell. 



