Beckett. — On Neio Zealand Mosses. 



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EiJtPLANATION OP PLATES XXV.-XXVIII. 



Plate XXV. 



Phascum austro-crispum. 



Fig. 1, 2, Two leaves, x 32. 

 „ 3. Perichoetial leaf, x 32. 



4. Cells at base of leaf, x 270. 

 „ 5. Cells of leaf, x 270. 



Pig. 6. Capsule and seta, x 32. 



7. Calyptra, x 32. 

 „ 8. Special branch bearing male 

 inja., X 32. 



Plate XXVI. 

 Braicnia novcz-seelandicE. 



Fig. 



1. Plant, nat. size. 



2. Leaf, x 82. 



3. Section of leaf, x 32. 



4. Leaf of stolon, x 32. 



5. 6. Perichsetial, x 32. 



Pig. 7. Apex of leaf, x 270. 



8. Marginal cells, x 270. 



9. Cells at middle of leaf at 



base, X 270. 

 „ 10. Leaf-cells, x 270. 



Fig. 



Plate XXVII. 

 Hypmom viicro-vaguvi. 



1. Leaf, X 32. [ Pig. 7. Papillcc at back of leaf, x 



2. Leaf, x 70. 270. 



3. Apex of leaf, x 270. I „ 8. Capsule, x 32. 



4. Base of leaf, x 270. 



5. Marginal cells, x 270. 



6. Leaf-cells, x 270, 



9. Endostome, x 270. 

 10. Leaf, X 32, and cells, x 270, 

 of Hypnum vagum. 



Plate XXVIII. 

 Daltonia straminea. 



Fig. 



Pig. 7. Operculum, x 32. 



Peristome and endostome, 



X 70. 

 Male inflorescence, x 32. 

 Antheridia, x 70. 

 Cells of capsule, x 270. 



Art. XXVII. — On some little-knoion Ncio Zealand Mosses. 



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

 [Read before the Philosopliical Institute of Canterbury, 4th October, 1893.] 



Plates XXIX.-XXXc. 

 In the following paper I continue my notes on little-known 

 New Zealand mosses, and give descriptions, gleaned from 

 various sources, of fourteen species which have not hitherto 

 been recorded as belonging to our moss-flora. Through the 

 kindness of Messrs. Wesley and Son, scientific publishers, 

 London, I have obtained MSS. copies of the descriptions of 

 Dr. Miiller's and Dr. Hampe's mosses published at various times 

 in the pages of " Linngea " and the " Botanische Zeitung " — 

 works which are not to be found in any of our libraries. 



Professor V. F. Brotherus, of Helsingfors, has described 

 many new Australian mosses in "Ofversigt af Fiuska Vet. Soc. 



