232 Transactions. — Botany. 



Hab. On rotten logs, forests near Norsewood, County of 

 Waipawa; 1884: W.C. 



Obs. This little species presents a rather novel appearance 

 from its leaves being scarcely broader at base tban their stout 

 nerve, and so giving them the appearance of being petioled. 

 When dry, its stems and leaves are dusky green and blackish 

 and completely curled up, but relaxing quickly on being 

 moistened ; their tips remaining recurved. 



7. H. ramulosa, sp. nov. 



Plant small, tufted, dendroid, stems \\ inches high, erect, 

 stout, dark-brown, covered with old leaves persistent below, 

 branched at top 3-12 branches, each branch densely clothed 

 with fine branched brown rootlets ; branches narrow, 4-5 lines 

 long, \\ lines wide, simple and forked, flat, recurved, dark-green 

 (almost blaek when dry). Leaves quadrifarious, sub-imbricate 

 above, somewhat scattered and distant below ; lateral obliquely 

 oblong, broad, obtuse, spreading, small, less than 1 line long, 

 somewhat irregular in size, the upper half of margins sharply 

 and irregularly serrulate ; nerve stoutish, shortly bifid, extend- 

 ing not quite to middle ; dorsal and ventral elliptic-ovate, sub- 

 acute, nerve short ; cells rather small, orbicular, nearly alike 

 throughout ; perichsetial broadly-ovate, sub-acuminate, very mem- 

 branaceous, cells large oblong and clear, nerveless. Fruit-stalk 

 erect, 4-7 lines high, smooth, rigid, red-brown, thickened and 

 curved at base, springing somewhat laterally from upper side of 

 branch near base, sometimes two together, and 5-6 on a single 

 plant. Capsule narrow, about 1 line long, sub-horizontal, 

 greenish, finely striate, with a few small and scattered, coloured, 

 smooth tubercles at base. Operculum shorter than capsule, 

 narrow, very obtuse. Calyptra as long as capsule, smooth, 

 naked, cellular, and very much so, and slightly laciniate at 

 base. 



Hab. On logs among other mosses ; wet shaded woods near 

 Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1885 : W.C. 



Obs. A species near to H. nigella, Hook. fil. and Wils. 



8. H. subsunilis, sp. nov. 



Plant small, monoecious, tufted, sub-dendroid. Stem erect, 

 £--£ inch high, branched at top into 3-6 branches, sometimes 

 single ; colour dusky-greenish. Leaves sub-quadrifariously dis- 

 posed, li lines long, oblong, slightly obtuse and sub-acute, 

 sharply serrulate, f length from apex, nerved to beyond middle, 

 and bifid near top ; cells sub-orbicular, small, but much smaller 

 at margins ; dorsal and ventral broader and sub-acute ; peri- 

 chaetial oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, nerveless ; cells 

 large linear-oblong. Fruit-stalk 10 lines long, erect, slender, 

 flexuous, twisted, slightly thickened at base, dark-brown, spring- 

 ing from upper side of stem, but near base, 2-8 on a branch. 



