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culum convexo-rostrate. Beak slender, straight. Columella 

 not adherent to the operculum. Calyptra not found. 



Hab. Damp rocks, Port Lyttelton hills ; 1880 : and 

 Hurunui Gorge ; March, 1893. Collected by B. B. 



7. Grimmia (Schistidium) alfredii, sp. nov. 



Plants brownish-green, growing in small tufts lin.-lin. 

 high, branched by innovations, fastigiate, leaves closely im- 

 bricating, erecto-patent, diaphanous; lower leaves lanceolate, 

 acute; upper ones ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 tapering into a short hyaline point. Margins entire, recurved, 

 concave, nerved to the hyaline point. Areola upper puncti- 

 form, when dry erect and adpressed to the branches. Peri- 

 cluvtial leaves erect, oblong-lanceolate, tapering into a short 

 hyaline point, concave. Margins entire. Nerve ending at the 

 hyaline point. Fruits talk very short. Capsule small, ovate, 

 immersed, mouth wide. Peristome single, irregular, 16, minutely 

 bifid, perforated. Operculum conico-rostrate, straight, about 

 one-half the length of the capsule. Columella not adhering to 

 the operculum. Calyptra not found. 



Hab. Limestone rocks, Broken Biver, Canterbury; No- 

 vember, 1889. Collected by B. B. 



8. Grimmia (Schistidium) turbinata, sp. nov. 



Plants brownish - green, growing in small dense tafts 

 Jin.-Jin. high, branched by innovations, fastigiate. Leaves 

 spreading, recurved, diaphanous; lower leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute ; middle ones ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a hyaline 

 point ; upper oblong-lanceolate, tapering into a hyaline point, 

 concave. Margins entire. Nerve ending at the hyaline point. 

 Areola upper punctiform, leaves nearly erect when dry. Peri- 

 chcetial leaves longer, erect, sheathing, oblong - lanceolate, 

 tapering into a hyaline point. Nerve ending at the hyaline 

 point. Fruitstalk as long as the capsule. Capsule immersed, 

 turbinate, mouth wide. Peristome single, 16, perforated. Oper- 

 culum convex, apiculate, straight. Columella not adhering to 

 the operculum. Calyptra cucullate, lobed at the base. 



Hab. Damp rocks, Port Lyttelton hills ; June, 1884 : 

 and Hurunui Gorge ; March, 1893. Collected by B. B. 



9. Grimmia (Schistidium) argentea, sp. nov. 



Plants growing in small greyish- white tufts Jin. high, 

 branched by innovations, fastigiate. Leaves closely imbricat- 

 ing, nearly erect, diaphanous ; lower leaves small, linear- 

 lanceolate, with toothed hyaline hair-point ; upper ones large, 

 broadly ovate-lanceolote, tapering into a toothed hair-point, 

 upper half of leaf hyaline. Margins entire. Nerve running 



