E. Brown.— On N.Z. Musci. 339 



Hab. In small holes on calcareous rocks near Weston, 

 close to Oamaru. Collected by K. Brown, November, 1897. 



This plant differs from the preceding one in tbe acuminate 

 leaves, the smaller capsule, shorter operculum, and the larger 

 perichaetial leaves. 



35. T. hutchinsonii, sp. nov. Plate XL., fig. 35. 



Plants perennial, monoecious, growing in dense tufts or 

 small patches, dark-green, |in. high. Branches fastigiate. 

 Leaves closely imbricating, erecto-patent, oblong, round at 

 the apex or ligulate ; margins entire or recurved ; nerve 

 stout, excurrent, has a long hyaline hair-point ; crisp when 

 dry. Areola : Upper small, dense ; lower quadrilateral. Peri- 

 chaetial leaves about one-half shorter and narrower than 

 the upper ones. Fruit acrocarpous. Fruitstalk J in. long, 

 red. Capsule cylindric, slightly curved, annulate, persistent. 

 Operculum stout, conico-rostrate, slightly oblique, one-third 

 the length of the capsule. Peristjme twisted, tube very 

 short. Galyptra cucullate. 



Hab. In small holes on calcareous rocks near Weston, 

 close to Oamaru. Collected by K. Brown, November, 1897. 



EXPLANATION OP PLATES XXXV.-XL. 



Plate XXXV. 



Fig. 1. Gymnostomum salmonii, sp. nov. 



1. Plant. ; 4. Upper leaves. 



2. Perichsetial leaves. 5. Lower. 



3. First leaf outside perichsetial. 



Fig. 2. G. brotherusii, sp. nov. 



1. Magnified one-half as much as 



capsule and leaves. 



2. Capsule. 



3. Calyptra. 



4. Inner and outer perichaetial 



leaves. 



5. First leaf outside perichaetial. 



6. Upper leaves. 



7. Middle leaf. 



Fig. 3. G. gibsonii, sp. nov. 



1. Capsule. 



2. Inner and outer perichaetial 



leaves. 



3. First leaf outside perichaetial. 



4. Upper leaf. 



5. Middle leaf. 



6. Lower leaf. 



Fig. 4. G. parisii, sp. nov. 

 1. Capsule. | 2. Perichaetial leaves. 



Fig. 5. G. westlandicum, sp. nov. 



1. Capsule. 



2. Perichaetial leaves. 



3. First leaf outside perichaetial. 



4. Upper leaves. 



5. Middle leaf. 



Fig. 6. Weissia kaikouraensis, sp. nov. 



1. Plant. 



2. Mature capsule. 



3. Perichaetial leaves. 



4. First leaf outside perichaetial. 



5. Upper leaf. 



6. Middle leaf. 



