426 Transactions. — Botany. 



Hab. On trees in bush near the Whistler Eiver, Puketirake 

 Eange ; December, 1888. Collected by E. B. 



2. Orthotrichum pulvinatum, sp. nov. 



Plants monoecious, dark-brown, growing in small dense 

 tufts Jin.— fin. high, branched by innovations. Branches very 

 short, fastigiate. Leaves closely imbricating, nearly erect, 

 very similar in outline to the lower ones, small, increasing 

 in size upwards, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, concave. 

 Margins entire, plain. Nerve ending below the apex. Areola : 

 Upper punctiform, lower linear-oblong. Leaves when dry 

 erect and adpressed. Perichcetial leaves erect, longer than the 

 upper branch ones, oblong-lanceolate, acute, concave. Mar- 

 gins entire, plain. Nerve ending below the apex. Fruitstalk 

 short, erect. Capsule immersed, shortly pyriform, slightly 

 tapering into the fruitstalk. Peristome single, 8, bigeminate, 

 irregular in the outline, perforated on the middle line, and 

 sometimes on the lateral ones. Operculum conico-rostrate, 

 straight, about half the length of the capsule. Galyptra 

 mitriform, plicate, pilose. 



Hab. Limestone rocks, Broken Eiver, near Castle Hill ; 

 November, 1889. Mount Self, near the Hurunui Eiver ; 

 March, 1893. Collected in both localities by E. B. 



3. Orthotrichum breve, sp. nov. 



Plants monoecious, dark-green at the apex, brown below, 

 growing in very small tufts Jin. high, branched by innovations. 

 Branches very short, gMn. long, fastigiate. Leaves erecto- 

 patent, shortly imbricating, all very similar in outline, lower 

 ones small, middle and upper ones larger, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, concave. Margins entire, recurved from the base to 

 near the apex. Nerve ending below or disappearing at the 

 apex. Areola : Upper punctiform nearly to the base, lower 

 linear - oblong. Leaves when dry erect. Perichcetial leaves 

 erect, semi-convolute, incurved near the apex, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute. Fruitstalk very short, erect. Capsule immersed, 

 narrow pyriform, tapering into the fruitstalk. Peristome 

 single, 8, bigeminate, entire. Operculum small, convex, api- 

 culate, one-fourth the length of the capsule. Galyptra mitri- 

 form, plicate, pilose, as long as the capsule. Male inflorescence 

 gemmaceous in the axil of a leaf below the perichastium. 



Hab. Trees in bush near Cooper's Nob, Port Lyttelton 

 hills; August, 1884. Collected by E. B. 



4. Orthotrichum ornatum, sp. nov. 



Plants monoecious, reddish- brown, growing in dense pulvi- 

 nate tufts Jin.— |in. high, branched by innovations, very short, 

 fastigiate. Leaves closely imbricating, erecto-patent, oblong- 



