Beckett. — On Neiv Zealand Mosses. 427 



V. F. Brotherus, part iv., p. 74, in Ofversigt af Finska Vet.- 

 Soc. Foerh., 1898. 



Dicranum platycaulon, C. Miill., n. sp., in Herb. Helms, 



No. 71. 



"AD. billardieri limbo hyalino latiore diffeore videtur." — 

 V. F. Brotherus. D. hellii, Broth, in litt. ad W. Bell. 



Hab. On the ground, in forests, at roots of trees. West- 

 land : Helms. Otago : Mount Cargill, near Dunedin ; D. 

 Petrie : No. 640, det. Brotherus Canterbury: Patterson's 

 Creek, Mount Torlesse ; Beckett : No. 494, det. Brotherus. 



Dicranum polysetum, Hampe in Linngea, 1859, p. 629. 



Very abundant in "black-birch" forests {Fagus clif- 

 fortwides). Otago: Lake Te Anau ; D. Petrie: No. 644, 

 det. Brotherus. Mount Cargill ; W. Bell : Stewart Island ; 

 W. Bell : det. V. F. Brotherus in litt. 



Found also in Victoria, Australia. 



Ditrichum blindioides, Broth., n. sp. 



" Gracile, caespitosum, caespitibus densis, ad 6 cm. usque 

 altis, inferne fusceseentibus superne saturate viridibus, niti- 

 diusculis ; caidis tenuis, erectus, flexuosus densiuscule folio- 

 sus, dichotome ramosus ; folia falcata, canaliculato-concava, 

 e basi lanceolata, sensim longissime setacea obtusa, margini- 

 bus erectis, integris, nervo basi c. 0-10 mm. lato, usque ad 

 apicem a lamina distincto, celhilis ubique elongate rectangu- 

 laribus, chlorophyilosis, laevissimis, alaribus nuUis. Csetera 

 ignota. 



" F atria. — New Zealand: Auckland; D. Petrie. Sub 

 numero 712 misit amicissimus T. W. Naylor Beckett. 



" Species peculiaris, habitu Blindiavi referens sed ob folia 

 cellulis alaribus nullis praedita ad Ditrichum gerenda." — 

 V. F. B., op. cit., p. 76. 



Ditrichum glaucescens (Dicks), Hpe. 



Otago : Mount Ida, altitude 3,000 ft. ; D. Petrie : No. 663, 

 det. V. F. -Brotherus. 



A European and North American moss. 



CHEILOTHEIiA. 



I am indebted to Mr. A. Gepp, of the British Museum, for 

 the following translation from the original Swedish of Dr. 

 S. O. Lindberg's description of his new genus Cheilothela in 

 " Utkast till en naturlig.," 1878 :— 



" Ditrichece includes Bryoxijyhiiaii,, Sioartzia, Ditrichum, 

 Pleuridium, and Archidium. To these is now joined this new 

 genus, Cheilothela, with the single species CJi. chloroptcs 

 {Geratodon, Brid.), occurring in Italy and Southern France — 



