618 Transactions. — Botany. 



Order IV. Musci. 



Genus 55. Cryphoea. Mohr. 

 1. C. novce-zealand'ue, sp. nov. 



Plant tufted, erect, and slightly drooping; dark-green. 

 Stems 2iin.-3in. long, leafy from base, branched ; lower 

 branches few, distant, sub ^in. long, each bearing 6-8 cap- 

 sules ; upper branches numerous, close, and very short, sub- 

 secund, each with a capsule at apex. Leaves subrhomboidal, 

 margins entire, nerve very stout extending to margin, apex 

 obtuse ; perichaetial oblong-ovate, margins entire, very acu- 

 minate soon subulate, the subulate portion longer than 

 lamina, tips obtuse ; cells narrow linear throughout. Capsule 

 erect, broadly oblong, turgid, slightly sulcate, reddish (so, also, 

 operculum), laalf concealed by perichgetial leaves ; operculum 

 slightly conical from a broad base, depressed, with a rather 

 long acute beak ; annul us dark-coloured ; teeth exserted, 

 white. 



Hah. Euahine Mountain-range, east side: Mr. A. Olsen ; 

 1895. 



Ohs. A species near to C. tasvianica, Mitt., which it much 

 resembles in size, form, and habit, differing, however, in shape 

 of leaves, with their nerve extending throughout, their very 

 blunt apices, and entire margins, as well as in the form of cap- 

 sule, of opercuhim, &c. 



Art. LXI. — A Dcscriptioi of Three Ferns, believed to he 

 Undescrihed, discovered more than Fifty Years ago in the 

 Northern District of New Zealand. 



By W. CoLENSo, F.E.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), *c. 



Read bfifore the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 21st October, 



1895.] 



Genus 4. Trichomanes, Smith. 



1. T. polyodon, sp. nov. 



Plant terrestrial, small, tufted, 6-8 fronds, erect, spreading, 

 and slightly drooping, 3-5in. high (a single specimen without 

 basal end 6^in., the stipe being 3^in.), colour darkish olive-green 

 (? from long keeping), with a roughish appearance. Frond 

 ovate-acuminate, 2^in.-3in. long, 2in.-3in. broad, membranous, 

 bipinnate ; pinna? alternate, close, slightly imbricate, erect, 

 patent, subfalcate, the lowermost pair subopposite, the next pair 

 longest, pinna ovate acuminate obtuse, the inner pinnule 



