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crowded, orange-yellow, apices darker, appressed when dry, 

 oval, suddenly attenuated and tapering into a long point, 

 which is sometimes slightly falcate ; nerve indistinct, darker 

 coloured, vanishing in the narrowed part ; perichsetial leaves 

 3 or 4, large oval, suddenly contracted into a narrow point 

 one-third the length of the whole leaf, faintly nerved half-way; 

 cells of centre of the leaf at base and on each side of nerve 

 long and narrow, leaf-cells oval, small. Capsule 4-valved, 

 oval, not exserted beyond the apex of leaves. Male inflores- 

 cence — bracts ovate, narrowed into a small point, antheridia 

 few, paraphyses numerous, long, thin, smooth, the joints very 

 inconspicuous, dark-orange. 



Hab. On rocks. 



Loc. Eockwood, North Canterbury ; November, 1890 ; No. 

 371 (named by Dr. Midler). Mount Torlesse; April, 1892; 

 No. 412 ; T. W. N. B. 



Quite distinct from A. pulvinata in its mode of growth and 

 form of leaves. 



Hyprmm (Heterophyllum) kirkii, sp. nov. Plate XLII. 



Minute, growing in dense close cushions, stems irregularly 

 branched. Leaves greyish-green, not much altered when dry, 

 linear, lanceolate, gradually attenuated from the base to a 

 slender point, apex minutely serrated, nerveless, base of leaf 

 concave, with flat hyaline alas with large hyaline cells, cells 

 at centre of base distinct bright yellow, cells of leaf long, 

 distinct, slightly sygmoid ; perichsetial leaves much larger, 

 erect, outer ovate-acuminate entire, inner ovate-lanceolate 

 gradually tapering to a fine point very slightly denticulate 

 at the apex, lower half of all bright yellow. Seta smooth, 5 

 lines long, brownish-red, vaginula large, turbinate. Capsule 

 slightly inclined, oval. Operculum conic, with a long at- 

 tenuated beak. Peristome, teeth pale yellow, lanceolate, 

 subulate, inner surface very trabeculate, endostome consisting 

 of 16 carinate imperforate processes without intermediate cilia. 



Hab. Growing on trees and decayed bark. 



Loc. The Snares; No. 370; T. Kirk; 1890 (named by 

 Dr. Midler). Paterson's Inlet, Stewart Island; T. Kirk; 

 1890. 



Fissidens (Heterocaulon) ramiger, sp. nov. Plate XLIII. 



Ehizantoicous, solitary or gregarious, minute. Fertile 

 stems very short ; leaves few, two inner ones convolute round 

 the seta, apex produced into a long point ; lower ones (2 or 3) 

 smaller, diminishing in size ; the vaginant laminae occupying 

 nearly the whole of the leaf, the superior lamina very short 

 and narrow, and curved into a beak. Barren stems — leaves 

 8-10-jugous, lower smaller shorter and ovate, ovate-lanceolate 



