Brown. — Notes on New Zealand Mosses. 285 



Plate XXXI. (in Part). 

 Fi „ s Andrccea petrophila, Ehrhart. 

 1, 2. Middle stem leaves. 

 3, 4. Upper stem leaves. 

 5. Inner perichsetial leaf. 



Abt. XXXIV. — Notes on a Proposed Ncio Genus of Neio 

 Zealand Mosses ; together with a Description of Three 

 New Species. * 



By Ko^ert Brown. 



{Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. 7th September, 



1892.] 



Plates XXXI. (in Part) to XXXIII. 



During the year 1882, having been engaged in botanizing on 

 the Port Hills, from the lighthouse at the Heads to Cooper's 

 Nob at the opposite end of the harbour, and on the plains 

 round Christchurch as far as the banks of the Eiver Wai- 

 makariri, amongst a number of new mosses then discovered 

 by me were three which could not be placed in any of the 

 existing genera, they, however, being most nearly related to 

 Encalypta, yet differing from that genus in their having a 

 short, stout, straight beak, instead of a long, slender, straight 

 beak, while the calyptra, instead of being inflated as in that 

 genus, closely encloses the capsule, and is confluent at the 

 base. Since these two generic characters are the very oppo- 

 site to those of Encalypta, these plants cannot be very well 

 placed in that genus without seriously disturbing the accepted 

 generic characters; consequently it becomes necessary that a 

 new genus should be created to receive these mosses. Acting 

 on the advice of a friend, I took no steps in this matter at the 

 time for creating a new genus, fearing that the above-mentioned 

 mosses might prove to be examples of some foreign genus not 

 represented in the New Zealand flora ; however, since this 

 has proved to be not the case, I have brought this subject 

 before the Institute to-night, and propose to name the new 

 genus after the late Eodger Hennedy, Professor of Botany at 

 the Andersonian University, Glasgow, my late admirable 

 teacher and esteemed friend. 



Hennedia, Gen. Nov. 



Annual or perennial plants. Capsule erect or inclined, 

 ovate or ovate-oblong, symmetrical, narrowed towards the 

 mouth. Operculum short, stout, conic, straight. Calyptra 



