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puru, Pelorus Sound ; J. Butland. McKinnon's Pass, Otago 

 (collected by — Triggs) ; T. G. Wright, No. 963. Greymouth 

 (collected by W. J. Gulliver) ; T. G. Wright, No. 874. 



The perichaetium and fruit are very large when contrasted 

 with the very minute leaves. 



It is allied to, and in some respects resembles, Hypnum 

 vagum, Hornsch., but it materially differs in the form of the 

 cells, which in H. vagum are prosenchymatous. It is also 

 separated by its round-ended leaves and entire absence of 

 nerve. 



Daltonia straminea, sp. nov. 



Dioicous. Stems crowded, fastigiately branched, lin. to 

 liin. long, golden-yellov/. Leaves imbricated, appressed but 

 not altered when dry, linear-lanceolate, tapering gradually to 

 a point, concave, puckered within the edge. Nerve canaliculate, 

 golden-brown, thin but well defined, the apex of the leaf fre- 

 quently twdsted. Margin entire, revolute. Cells long-oval and 

 uniform over the whole leaf, a row at the base of a golden 

 colour, cells of margin very long, narrow-ended. The revo- 

 lute portion of the margin consists of about one-third of this 

 band of prosenchymatous cells. Perichaetial leaves half the 

 length of stem leaves, oval, shortly and inconspicuously nerved, 

 not margined. Seta l-J lines long, smooth. Capsule slightly 

 inclined, lying close to the underside of the foliage, oval- 

 oblong, the lower part verrucose. Teeth of peristome linear, 

 with a strongly-marked divisural line, trabeculaB very pro- 

 minent and extending beyond the edge of the teeth ; endostome 

 divided to the middle into lanceolate carinate processes, not 

 papillose. "When dry the inner peristome is erect, and forms 

 a cone, with the teeth of the outer peristome incurved. 

 Operculum with a long straight subulate beak. Calyptra 

 conical, deeply fringed at base, apex darker. Male inflorescence 

 gemmiform in the axils of the leaves all up the stem, abundant : 

 bracts numerous, inner ones with their apices curved outwards 

 and truncate. Antheridia short and broad, mouth wide, areo- 

 lation very distinct, paraphyses 0. 



Log. Stewart Island, January, 1889 ; W. Bell. 



This very handsome moss is of a beautiful golden straw- 

 colour, specimens growing in exposed places having a coppery 

 sheen. It was found by Mr. William Bell on smooth-barked 

 trees, in one gully only, Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island. He 

 sent it to Mr. Mitten, who decided that it was a new species 

 " distinct from D. nervosa," The dioicous inflorescence 

 clearly separates it from that species. 



