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Obs. This species is wholly unlike all others of this genus 

 known to me. Having but a small tuft of a few stems, contain- 

 ing only one fruiting specimen, I did not break it up to examine 

 its teeth, which appear to be very small and slender. It 

 moistens readily. 



5. H. subsinuata, sp. nov. 



Small, tufted, erect, 6-8 lines high, simple (sometimes 

 slightly short-branched at base), linear, broadest at top ; stem 

 short, stout, dark- brown, leaved from base ; rootlets many, hue, 

 red, at lower part of stem and base. Leaves small, numerous, 

 close, imbricate, sexfariously disposed, all similar, £ line long, 

 obovate-spathulate, apex very obtuse and shortly apiculate, 

 margin entire and slightly sinuous, light-green, finely nerved 

 throughout f ths or more of leaf, apical portion of nerve sinuous ; 

 cells, upper half exceedingly small, orbicular, the basal portion 

 very large and clear, sexagonal-oblong ; perichretial small, 

 oblong-acuminate, hyaline, nerve 0. Fruit-stalk erect, 3-5 lines 

 long, slender, sub-flexuous, red, shining, black at base, 3-4 on a 

 branch. Capsule (immature) narrow-oblong, gibbous above, 

 nearly straight below, sub-apophysate, cernuous, shining, green 

 with small red tubercles at base ; operculum short, conical, 

 obtuse ; calyptra rather small, narrow, greenish-white, upper 

 portion black, shining, tip acute, recurved ; largely fimbriate 

 at extreme base ; fimbriae spreading, sub-curly and waved (not 

 straight), hyaline, linear, obtuse, containing dark-brown linear- 

 oblong masses. 



Hab. Among other mosses on rotten logs ; low wet woods 

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



Obs. A species near to H. fiexuosa, Mitten, but differing in 

 several particulars. 



6. H. jiseudo-petiolata, sp. nov. 



Plant small, tufted, erect, f inch high, simple and 3-branched 

 at top ; stems stout, dark-brown below, green and highly cellular 

 above, with red rootlets at base. Leaves pale green, oval, 

 oblique, obtuse, li lines long, somewhat distant, sub-decussate, 

 serrate, lower margin near base excised and entire, lateral 

 joined to stem by nerve only ; nerve 1, very stout, cellular, 

 extending half-way and forked about the middle, branch short ; 

 dorsal and ventral leaves similar but smaller, and broader at 

 bases ; cells large, sub-orbicular, equal throughout ; perichsetial 

 very small, nerveless, entire, ovate, sub-acute and acuminate, 

 tip obtuse with (sometimes) two serratures. Fruit-stalk spring- 

 ing from near base, erect, 10 lines high, wiry, rigid, sbining, 

 flexuous, dark-coloured, thickened at base, sometimes 2-3 on a 

 branchlet. Capsule small, oblong, horizontal, spotted, finely 

 reticulate, slightly tubercled at base ; calyptra narrow conical, 

 1 line long, smooth, brownish, highly cellular ; tip long, curved, 

 acute ; base slightly ragged. 



