426 Transactions. — Botany. 



The plant bloomed in cultivation at eud of December, the 

 flowers being of very short duration, and the fruit ripe by 

 middle of February. The leaves smell rather like carrot when 

 bruised. The other Ligusticuvi, marked with a query in the 

 Handbook, L. filifoliu^n, should also, I think, be referred to 

 Angelica. 



Art. XXXVI. — Some Recent Additions to tJie Moss-Flora of 



New Zealand. 



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



{Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, HOth November, 



1S9S.] 



The fourth part of Dr. V. F. Brotherus's work on " New 

 Species of Australian Mosses," published early this year, con- 

 tains descriptions of fifteen new species from New Zealand, 

 collected by Mr. William Bell in Otago, Mr. D. Petrie in 

 Auckland, and by myself in Canterbury. I have in this paper 

 given his descriptions of these additions to our moss-flora, 

 together with several other mosses now for the first time 

 recorded from New Zealand. 



Eucamptodon petriei, Broth., n. sp. 



" Dioicus ; valde robustus, rigidus, lutescens, nitidus ; 

 caulis 6 cm. altus, flexuosus, dichotome ramosus, dense folio- 

 sus ; folia scariosa, patentia, stricta, valide canaliculato-con- 

 cava, ovato-lanceolata, obtusa, superiora 7-7'5 mm. longa et 

 c. 2'5 mm. lata, marginibus erectis integerrimis, limbata, limbo 

 angustissimo, hyalino, apicem versus evanido, nervo tenuis- 

 sirao, paulum ultra medium evanido, interdum obsoleto, cel- 

 lulis elongatis, inter se valde porosis, basilaribus aureis, 

 alaribus permultis, pachydermis, quadratis, fusco-aureis omni- 

 bus laevissimis. Castera ignota. 



" Patria (No. 641). — Teremakau Valley, Westland ; D. 

 Petrie. 



" Species pulcherrima, distinctissima cum E. macrocalyce, 

 C. Miill., coniparanda, sed statura multo robustiore, foliis 

 nervo tenuissimo praeditis aliisque notis raptim dignoscenda. 



" That moss from Tasmania which my friend A. Geheeb, 

 under the name of Dicnemon vioorei, Broth. Geh., mentions in 

 ' Eevue Bryologique,' 1897, p. 67, I have by a further exami- 

 nation found to be Gavipyloyus kirkii, Mitt., earlier found in 

 New Zealand." — "New Species of Australian Mosses," by 



