60 Transactions. 



Art. XII. — Some Hitherto-unrecorded Plant-habitats (IX). 

 By L. Cockayne, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 5th November, 1913.] 



For the determination of the mosses recorded below I am indebted to 

 Mr. H. N. Dixon, M.A., F.L.S. Mr. C. E. Christensen, in company with 

 Mr. W. G. Morrison, of the State Nursery, is continuing his valuable detailed 

 examination of the Hanmer district, and the Rev. J. E. Holloway has sent 

 me a collection of plants from Mount Oxford. To these gentlemen I am 

 much indebted. 



1. Musci. 



Barbula australasiae (Hook. & Grev.) Brid. 



South Island : Canterbury — -On soil on rock, Port Hills. L. C. 



Breutelia comosa Mitt. 



South Island : Canterbury — Growing amongst large stones in the open, 

 neighbourhood of Tasman Glacier. Johannes Andersen ! 



Bartramia patens Brid. 



South Island : Canterbury — Wet rock, Craigieburn Mountains, at 

 1,000 m. altitude. L. C. 



Bryum curvicollum Mitt. 



North Island : Auckland— Wet ground in the open, Ohaupo. L. C. 



Bryum leptothecium Tayl. 



South Island : Canterbury — Port Hills. Miss Suckling ! 



Campylium relaxum (Hook. f. & Wils.). 



South Island : (1.) Westland — Forest floor near Jackson's, Taramakau 

 Valley; L. C. (2.) Canterbury — Floor of Nothofagus forest, base of Craigie- 

 burn Mountains, at 700 m. altitude ; L. C. 



Campy lopus introflexus (Hedw.) Mitt. 



South Island : Westland — Lowland Sphagnum moor near Stafford. 

 L. C. 



Dicranoloma pungens (Hook. f. & Wils.) Paris. 



South Island : Canterbury— Totara forest near source of River Rakaia, 

 at 920 m. altitude. L. C. 



Dicranoloma setosum (Hook. f. & Wils.) Paris. 



South Island : Otago — Nothofagus forest near Queenstown. W. Willcox ! 



Ditrichum elongatum Mitt. 



South Island : Canterbury — On rock, Port Hills. L. C. 



Grimmia pulvinata (L.) Hook. & Tayl. var. obtusa (Brid.) C. M. & W. P. 

 Schimp. 

 South Island : Canterbury — On rock, Port Hills. L. C. 



