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crowded, shorter and clearer at base ; perichtetial leaves long, 

 acuminate, recurved, extending along fruit-stalk. Fruit-stalk 

 short, 3 lines long, reddish, curved at tip. Capsule oblong, 

 smooth, sub-erect, reddish ; operculum sub-conical, with a short 

 obtuse beak. Calyptra (young) smooth subulate long, narrow. 



Hab. On ground, woods south of Danneverke, County of 

 Waipawa; 1887: W.C. 



(3. Capsule grooved. 

 3. I. tomentosum, sp. nov. 



Plant dendroid ; stems stout, erect, flexuous, 2-3 inches 

 high, bearing many large scattered leaves, densely clothed with 

 fine dark-brown branched tomentum-like rootlets, the top much 

 and closely branched forming a thick globose mass 1^ inches 

 wide ; branches pinnate. Leaves numerous, rather close, sub- 

 decussate, their bases imbricate, triangular-ovate, base sub- 

 cordate, clasping, very acuminate, tips acute, spreading ; 

 margins of upper half coarsely serrated, of the lower half 

 slightly uneven and narrowly margined, pale-yellowish-green 

 (tinged with red in age), glabrous, glossy, nerve stout, vanish- 

 ing below tip ; cells longitudinal, exceedingly narrow, broader 

 and oblong at the wings of base ; leaves of stem very large, 

 2 lines long, 1 line broad at base, triangular, very acuminate ; 

 tips acute, long, almost acicular ; nerve strong, sub-tlexuose. 

 Fruit-stalks numerous, 1-20, erect, 1 inch high, stoutish, flexu- 

 ous, twisted above, dark-red, shining. Capsule sub-obovate, 1^ 

 lines long, broadly and deeply grooved, dimidiate, horizontal and 

 sub-cernuous, the lower margin straight, the upper arched, 

 strumose, dark-red, glossy ; operculum large, nearly as long as 

 capsule and same colour, hemispherical, beak very long, de- 

 pressed, acute. 



Hab. High lands, interior, north of Napier; 1887 : Mr. A. 

 Hamilton. 



Obs. This species has affinity with I. comosum, Hook. f. and 

 Wilson, but it is very distinct. Unfortunately I have only had 

 two specimens to examine (the discoverer having mislaid his 

 specimens), and both were old, with the greater number of their 

 capsules broken (or gnawed) at their tips. 



Genus 67. Hypopterygium, Bridel. 



I. Hypopterygium. 



(Stem 2-3-pinnately branched above, there orbicular or deltoid 



in outline ; branches radiating. Fruit-stalk rather long. 



/3. Leaves with bristles intermixed. 

 1. H. elegantulum, sp. nov. 



Rhizome long, creeping, slender, distantly branched. Plant 

 1^-2 inches high, erect, bipinnate, soft, delicate, neat, bright 



