Beckett. — On New Zealand Mosses. 299 



I have this moss also from the Barossa Eange, South Aus- 

 tralia, Tejpjper ; and from Queensland, Bailey. 



Anomodon huttc-nii* Mitten. 



" Caulis procumbens, ramis ascendentibus subpinnatim di- 

 visus ; folia caulina patentia, ovata, acumine lato apice acutius- 

 culo, nervo indistincto supra medium evanido, ramea sub- 

 compressa, basi subovata, ligulata, acutiuscula, omnia inferne 

 canaliculato-concava, apicem versus plana, cellulis rotundis 

 obscuris papillosis, margineque crenulata. Hab. New Zea- 

 land, Great Barrier Island ; Sutton et Kirk." — Mitten, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, vol. xiii., p. 309. 



As Mr. Mitten's description of this interesting moss was 

 published in his paper on Ceylon Musci, and may be over- 

 looked, I reproduce it here. 



The branches are extremely filiform, 4-6 lines long ; when 

 dry julaceous and not more than roVoin. in diameter, with 

 the leaves closely appressed. "When moist the leaves are 

 patent. The cells are large, roundish-hexagonal, and very 

 uniform in size over the whole of the leaf. There are a few 

 long cells on each side of the nerve at its base. The nerve, 

 from a broad base, tapers, and vanishes above the middle of 

 the leaf. Each individual cell projects at the edge of the leaf, 

 causing the margin to be minutely crenulate. 



Mr. Kirk, to whom I am indebted for this moss, informs 

 me that he found it but sparingly on the Great Barrier, but 

 freely at Omaha and Matakana, and other places in Auck- 

 land. 



In " Herb. Bell," identified by Mr. William Mitten. 

 Tortula muralis, Hedwig. 



A very cosmopolitan plant, but not before recorded as 

 found in Australasia. On chimney, Pine Hill, near Dunedin ; 

 W. Bell ; No. 649. 



Orthotriclram rupestre, Schleich. 



On rocks, Mount Earnslaw ; 1890 ; W. Bell. Mount Ben- 

 ger, 4,000ft.-5,000ft., and Pine Hill ; W. Bell; No. 265 ; 1887. 

 Mount Fife, Kaikoura ; T. Kirk ; 1889. Benmore, alt. 4,000ft.; 

 T.W. N. B.; 1890. 



Orthotrichum tasmanicum, H. f. and W. (London Journ. 

 Bot., vii., 1848, p. 27.) Flora Tasm., ii., 184. 



On twigs of bushes (especially Discaria toumatou) ; not un- 

 common. Lake Wakatipu and Pine Hill ; W. Bell ; Nos. 438, 

 646 ; 1888. Mount Torlesse, 1892 ; Hunter's Hills, Waimate ; 

 Little Eiver, Akaroa, 1887 ; T. W. N B. 



