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Brotherus and myself, seeing that, in all probability, it exists 

 nowhere outside of Wilson's herbarium ; that the figure in Fl. 

 N.Z. represents the capsule as smooth, no doubt drawn in the 

 moist condition (it is described as sulcate in the text) ; that no 

 mention is made of the gemmae, which in Mr. Gray's specimens 

 are the most conspicuous feature of the plant, and that the moss 

 is in no way a Meteorium, and was, therefore, not likely to be 

 looked for under that genus. It is, however, absolutely identical, 

 and Colenso's specimen was gathered also in the Wairarapa dis- 

 trict. Our moss must therefore stand as Tetraphidopsis pusilla 

 (H. f. & W.) Dixon. 



The male inflorescence has not, I believe, been described. 

 Mr. Gray has recently sent me further specimens, among 

 which I have detected a few male plants. The male flowers 

 are terminal on the ordinary branches, a very unusual situation 

 in the Pytchomniacese and allied orders ; gemmiform, compara- 

 tively large, and brownish ; the outer bracts rather large, and 

 pointed like the normal leaves, the inner gradually shorter and 

 more obtuse, the interior laxly areolate, widely convolute, very 

 broadly ovate or suborbicular, and quite obtuse. Antheridia few 

 (about 7), pale, with scarcely any paraphyses. 



DlTEICHUM BRACHYCARPUM Hampe. 



In working out the New Zealand species of Ditrichum, the 

 above plant came under my notice. The synonymy appears to 

 have become curiously confused. Paris Ind. Suppl. p. 130, has — 



" DlTRICHUM BRACHYCARPUM Hpe. 



Anisothecium ferrugineum Mitt, in Trans, and Proceed, of 



the Roy. Soc. of Victoria, 1880,* p. 57. 

 Leptotrichum ferrugineum ej. in Fl. Tasman. II, p. 171. 

 2. Terr. — Pac. Tasman." 



In the second edition it appears as follows — 

 11 Ditrichum brachycarpum Hpe. in Linn. 1871-73, p. 514. 

 Anisothecium ferrugineum Mitt, in Trans, and Proceed, of 



the Boy. Soc. of Victoria, 1880," p. 57. 

 Leptotrichum brachycarpum t ej. in Fl. Tasman. II, p. 171 

 (1860). 

 2. Terr. — Pac. : Austral, or. (Victoria), I Tasman." 



I do not know on what grounds Paris makes Anisothecium 

 ferrugineum Mitt, a synonym of D. brachycarpum. It is possibly 

 through some lapsus calami. In any case the Tasmanian Blindia 

 ferruginea (Mitt.) Broth, is a totally different plant, and has nothing 

 to do with D. brachycarpum Hampe, and Tasmania should be ex- 

 punged from the synonymy in the Index. 



Watts and Whitelegge (Census Muse. Australiens.), following 



* This should read 1882-3. 

 f A slip for ferrugineum. 



♦ Error for N.S.W. 



