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a genus which can in no wise be compared with Ceratodon, by 

 reason of the channelled, and, in the dry state, erect and ap- 

 pressed, leaves, with strong flattened-out and not limited 

 nerve, forming the uppermost acute dagger-like part of the 

 leaf ; the small quadrate cells, with both upper and lower 

 ends lip-formed, protruded exactly as in Sivartzia, or a multi- 

 tude of the BartramiacecB : perichaetial bracts which are never 

 reduced to mere basal-scales, the perfect Trichostom7wi-\ike 

 peristome, &c. Similarly it can be little referred to the Tor- 

 tulece, but it is to be considered in the light of a link between 

 Swartzia and DitricMim." 



Cheilothela novae seelandiae, Broth. 



"■ Dioica ; caespitosa, caespitibus densis, rigidis, fuscescenti- 

 viridibus ; caulis usque ad 3 cm. altus, erectus, inferne nudus, 

 parce radiculosus, superne dense foliosus, dichotome vel fasci- 

 culatiui ramosus ; folia sicca imbricata, apice incurvula, 

 humida erecto-patentia, inferiora minuta, superiora ovato- 

 lanceolata, longe et aiaguste acuminata marginibus erectis, 

 integer! imis, ob mamillas cellularum scabridis, nervo crasso, 

 basi usque ad 0-15 mm. lato, excurrente, cellulis minutis, 

 quadratis, valde mamillosis, obscuris, basilaribus oblongis, 

 laBvibus ; bractecc perichcetii internae e basi longe vaginante 

 subito subulato-acuminatae ; seta l'0-2-5 cm. alta, fiexuosula, 

 lutea, Isevissima ; theca suberecta, oblonga, curvatula, pallide 

 fusca, aetate fusca, laevis nitidiuscula; anmdusO; 2>si'isio7)dum 

 simplex, dentibus c. 0-5 mm. longis, usque ad basin in cruribus 

 duobus filiformibus aurantiacis, minute papillosis divisis ; 

 spori 0'01-0.012 mm., ochracei, laevissimi ; opierculum rubrum, 

 e basi conica oblique subulatum ; calyptra cucullata, dimidiam 

 partem thecaB baud superans. 



" Patria. — New Zealand — Otago : Blue Mountains {D. 

 Petrie, sub No. 664 com. amicissimus T. W. Naylor Beckett) : 

 Diamond Lake ad rupes siccas, Queenstown et Kuiloch ad 

 terram siccam, Mungatui in fissuris rupium ; W. Bell. [Also 

 Kelly's Creek, Westland ; T. W. N. B.] 



" Species distinctissima a Ch. chlorojyode (Brid.), Lindb., 

 theca laevi, annulo nuUo, peristomii dentibus minute papillosis 

 nee non operculo e basi conica oblique subulato facillime 

 dignoscenda. 



" Hereto belongs in all probability that species from the 

 Bay of Islands which in the ' Handbook of the New Zealand 

 Flora,' ii., p. 418, is with hesitation referred to Trichostovium 

 strictum, Bruch. (Fl. N.Z., ii., p. 72)."— V. F. B., op. cit., p. 76. 



Tortula submutica, Broth., n. sp. 



" Autoica ; caespitosa, casspitibus densiusculis, sordide 

 fuscescentibus ; caulis usque ad 1cm. altus, erectus, basi 



