CoLENSO. — On new Cryptogamic Plants. 279 



base of branchlet, ^ inch long, erect, flexuous, slender, shining, 

 dark-red, thickened at base and vaginant ; vagina tubercled. 

 Capsule smooth, shining, oblong, equal, rather less than 1 line 

 long, brown, slightly tubercled at base, sub-erect and horizon- 

 tal ; cells small, oblong-orbicular ; outer teeth much acuminate, 

 dark-brown, closely trabeculate, free, with stout thickened 

 margins, rough at edges with bars largely protruding towards 

 tips, and two dark stout longitudinal medial hues close together ; 

 inner teeth long, very acuminate, finely hair-pointed, white, 

 with distant trabeculje and a single median line. Operculum 

 half the length of capsule, rostrate, reddish, smooth, shining, 

 acuminate, acute, black-tipped, centre reddish-brown, base much 

 fimbriate ; fimbrise recurved, light-browu, obtuse, of unequal 

 lengths. 



Hab. Close to a waterfall, wet dripping sides of shaded 

 cliffs, banks of the Eiver Mangatawhainui, near Norsewood, 

 County of Waipawa ; 1886 : W.C. 



Obs. A species allied to H, concinna, Col.,* but much 

 larger, and of a different habit, form of growth, and texture. 



ft. Leaves without thickened margms. 

 ** Leaves serrulate. 

 2. H. telmaphila, sp. nov. 



Plant sub-erect, 1-1 1^ inches high, simple and slightly 

 branched ; stems stout, dark-coloured, hairy at bases with long 

 red wiry hairs. Leaves pale dusky-green, quadrifariously dis- 

 posed, imbricate, not margined, minutely serrulate {sub lente) ; 

 lateral spreading, 2^ lines long, broadly ovate, very obtuse, the 

 base contracted and with the stout nerve presenting a sub-petio- 

 late appearance ; nerve extending f of leaf, very stout at base, 

 ending abruptly with a short branch from the tip ; cells large, 

 orbicular, smaller at apex and sides ; dorsal and ventral leaves 

 adpressed, smaller, sub-orbicular, ovate ; perichaetial numerous, 

 small, very thin, ovate, acute, apex sharply serrulate, the mar- 

 gins entire ; cells oblong. Fruit-stalk (immature) ^ inch long, 

 black, stout, flexuous, twisted, much thickened at base. The 

 leaves when dry are distant and much crisped, but soon ex- 

 panding in water. 



Hab. On the ground, edges of a swamp, dense forest near 

 Norsewood, County of Waipawa; 1886: W.C, 



Obs. A species near to H. pseudcpetiolata, Col.,t but dif- 

 fering from that species in its larger size and very much larger 

 and broader leaves, that are only very minutely serrulate and 

 imbricate ; their cells also aie unequal, with a stouter and 

 longer nerve. 



* " TraDs. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xviii., p. 229. 

 t ' TranB. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xviii., p. 231. 



