Beckett. — On New Zealand Mosses. 283 



anguste lanceolata, marginibus acl medium refiexis, ad basin 

 et apicem planis, breviter papillosa ; cellulis superioribus 

 deusis, rotuudatis, inferioribus elongatis, pellucidis, ad 

 margines dilatatis quadratis. Calyptra mitrata, acuminata, 

 straminea, nitida, hirsuta, apice purpurea. Capsula in pedi- 

 cello brevi, cylindraceo-oblonga, anguste striata, sicca plicata, 

 sub ore lato coarctata. Peristomii dentes bigeminati, rufo- 

 aurantii, sicci reilexi. 



"On trees in a garden, Hanmer Plains, New Zealand; 

 Mr. Boper. This, with much the general appearance of 

 average 0. affine, has the leaves more acute, more spreading 

 and subsquarrose, and when dry somewhat twisted ; the seta 

 is rather longer and the capsule more exserted ; the calyptra 

 more hairy, paler, glossier, yellower, with a purplish apex, 

 like that of 0. straminea. The exserted capsules give some 

 resemblance to 0. sveciosum, while the red peristome is 

 suggestive of 0. 'pulcliellum." — " On New Exotic Mosses," by 

 Henry Boswell, M.A., "Journal of Botanv," Ap., 1892, xxx., 

 p. 97. 



Macromitrium retusum, H. f. and W. Flora N.Z., ii., 79, 



t. 85, f. 6. Plate XXXb. 



Hooker, in Fl. N.Z., figures this moss with retuse lea,ves, 

 and describes them as " retuse and 2-fid at the apex," omit- 

 ting any reference to the very remarkable hair-like points 

 with which they are terminated. This was doubtless due to 

 the fact that these points are very fragile, and in the "few 

 barren specimens " from which he drew up his diagnosis they 

 had in all probability fallen off. Their long bristle-like 

 points are articulated at the apex of the leaves, and when 

 they are broken off leave the apex of the leaf with a deep 

 notch. They may be observed in the young comal leaves, and 

 are to be found in great numbers loose in the paper in which 

 the plant has been dried. The moss grows in situations 

 exposed to the vicissitudes of the weather, and the repeated 

 expansion and contraction of the leaves caused by the alterna- 

 tion of moisture and drought causes the points to fall off. I 

 have never seen this moss in fruit. 



Hah. On trees, Studholme Bush, Waimate ; No. 114c ; 

 T. W. N. B. (identified by Dr. K. Miiller). Lyttelton Hills; 

 B. Broicn. Tarawera, Hawke's Bay ; H. Hill. Maungatui, 

 Dunedin, and Wyndham Valley, Southland ; W. Bell. 



Cyathophorum densirete, Broth. 



"Dioicum; gracile, viride vel lutescenti-viride, nitens ; 

 caulis repens, dense rufo-lusco-tomentosus stipitibus sparsis, 

 erectis, gracilibus, flexuosis, apice plus minusve attenuatis, 

 simplicibus, nigris, dense foliosis ; folia sicca vix mutata. 



