Beckett. — On New Zealand Mosses. 435 



metrica, rotundato-ovata, fusca, collo brevi, crasso, micro- 

 stoma, gymnostoma ; opercuhcm conico - subulatum cm'vatu- 

 lum ; calyptra igDota. 



"Planta mascula eisdem formineis similis, bracteis peri- 

 gonii latissime obovatis, intimis multo minoribus. 



" Patria. — New Zealand — Otago : Pine Hill, prope Dun- 

 edia, locis paludosis, et in Mount Cargill, locis paludosis ; 

 W. Bell. 



" Species distinctissima cum Ps. crispulo, H. f. et. W., 

 comparanda sed theca erecta, rotundato-ovata, gymnostoma 

 prima scrutatione dignoscenda." — V. F. B., op. cit., p. 91. 



Sciaromium bellii, Broth. ,,n. sp. 



" Dwicum ; gracile, Iseie viride ; caulis fluitans ramosus, 

 ramis elongatis, ad 9 cm. usque altis, flexuosis, inferue nudis, 

 superne dense foliosis, subpinnatim ramulosis, ramulis 1-2 cm. 

 altis, curvatulis, dense foliosis, obtusis : folia erecto-patentia, 

 horaomaliula, ovata, l-7-l'9mm. longa et 0-8-1 mm. lata, 

 margiuibus erectis, minutissime serrulatis, nervo viridi, basi 

 c. 0'06 mm. lato, infra summum apicem evanido, cellulis 

 oblongo-hexagonis, c. 0"02mm. longis et 0-007-001 mm. latis 

 chlorophyllosis, basilaribus majoribus, marginalibus angustis- 

 simis, limbum pluriseriatum, indistinctum efformantibus, 

 omnibus laevissimis. Caetera ignota. 



" Patria. — New Zealand — Otago : North-east Valley, in 

 rivulis, et Southland, Lime Hills, in locis paludosis ; W. Bell. 



" My excellent friend Mr.,T. W. Naylor Beckett has sent 

 me, under No. 609, specimens from Tyson's Mill, Otago, 

 which I only with hesitation can refer to the species described 

 above. It is somewhat coarser, and the leaves are projecting, 

 which gives it a different aspect. Nevertheless, when its 

 anatomical structur'e does not show any difference I dare not 

 yet describe it as a separate species." — V. F. B., op. cit., 

 p. 101. 



In the " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," 

 vol. vi., p. 210, the late Mr. J. Buchanan published a paper 

 on the mosses of the Province of Wellington, New Zealand, 

 containing five new species named by Dr. J. Stirton. Dr. Stir- 

 ton informed me that he had received the mosses from Mr. 

 Buchanan, but was unable to say in what publication he had 

 described them. On referring the question to Mr. A. Gepp, of 

 the Natural History Department, British Museum, he kindly 

 instituted a search, and sent me the following extracts from 

 the Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow. He added that he had 

 failed to find in any periodical the description of three of 

 them —viz., Hypmim amiahom, Hypnuvi loellingtoni, and 

 Weissia rufa. 



