Beckett. — On Neiv Zealand Mosses. 403 



Art. XLIX. — On Neio Zealand Mosses. 

 By T. W. Naylor Beckett, F.L.S. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 5th September, 



1894,] 



Plate XXVIII. 



Blindia tenuifolia, H. f. and W., in Hook. Lond. Journ. 



Bot., iii., p. 542 (Dicranum). Plate XXVIII. 



" Caulis breviusculus. Folia secunda, falcata, inferne an- 

 gnste elliptica, sensim longe tenuiterque capillari-subulata, 

 marginibus incurvis, nervo supra basin a lamina indistincto, 

 cellulis elongatis angustis, alaribus pluribus pallide fuscis in 

 folii basi adscendentibus ; perichaetialia basi brevi suborbi- 

 culata, convoluta, nervo longe excurrente. Theca in pedunculo 

 brevi crassiusculo, ereeta, breviter ovalis, turbinata, operculo 

 subulato, peristomii dentibus brevibus infra os insidentibus. 

 Hah. Fuegia, Hermite Island. — Hooker. 



" Caulis uncialis. Folia fusca, inferiora nigrescentia. Pe- 

 dunculus 3-linearis. Cellular alares haud incrassata3 sed laxa^, 

 ab aliis basilaribus vix distinctae." — Mitten, " Musci Austro- 

 Americani," p. 56. 



Dicranum tenuifolium, H. f. and W., Fl. Tasm., ii., p. 

 180, t. clii., f. 7. 



Hah. In a shallow tarn on the top of Mount Thompson, 

 Stewart Island ; No. 401 : B. Brown. 



I am indebted to Mr. Eobert Brown, of Christchurch, for 

 specimens of this rare moss, which he gathered in April, 1892, 

 on Mount Thompson, the only known habitat in New Zealand. 

 It was originally found by Hooker in Hermite Island, and 

 was in 1888 found in Tasmania by Mr. W. A. Weymouth, in 

 swampy ground at the top of Mount Wellington. I am in- 

 debted to him for copious specimens named by Dr. V. F. 

 Brotherus, which have enabled me with certainty to identify 

 the Mount Thompson plant. The plate in Fl. Tasm. does not 

 give a figure of the well-marked suborbiculate perichgetial 

 leaves suddenly narrowed into a long subulate apex. 



Hedwigia microcyathea, C. Mull., in Bot. Zeit., 1851. 



" Very like H. ciliata, but the leaves have angular, ellip- 

 tical, rather firm cells, scarcely or not at all crenulate at their 

 walls, those in the middle longer, papillose, and without chloro- 

 phyll, therefore not obscure. Capsule minute, hemispherical, 

 cup-shaped, with large mouth and very thick plicate neck." 



No. 347. On boulders, Birdling's Flat, Banks Peninsula. 

 Identified by Dr. Karl Midler. Not uncommon in the South 



