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capsule of P. toriilc, Sw., as being " shortly oval and plicate." 

 Hooker, in Flora N.Z., says that Swartz's original specimens 

 in Herb. Hook, are too imperfect to render the identification 

 of the New Zealand specimens certain. 



Hah. In clay. Teremakau, Westland. Hapuka Bush, 

 Kaikoura; No. 250 (identified by Dr. Mviller). Peel Forest ; 

 T. W.N.B. Grey mouth ; Gulliver. Found also in Australia 

 and Tasmania. 



Anisothecium, Mitten. (Journ. Liu. Soc, xii., 39, 1869.) 

 Mosses resembling Dicranclla in habit. Leaves gradually 

 narrowed, or from a sheathing base, abruptly subulate, cari- 

 nate, with the margin plane or recurved, and nerve narrow and 

 well defined below. Capsule always smooth, pachydermous, 

 curved as in Hypnum, rarely suberect or less oblique, the cells 

 of the exothecium regularly rectangular-quadrate, with non- 

 flexuose walls. Peristome larger, thicker, deep-purple, more 

 papillose (Lindberg). Deriv. ai'io-os unequal, OrjKiq a capsule. 



The absence of inflated cells at the basal angles of the leaf 

 at once separates Anisothecium from Dicranum. 



Anisothecium clathratum, Mitt. ('•' Handbook of New Zea- 

 land Flora," p. 411 — Dicranum.) 



Hah. On dripping rocks. Mount Torlesse, No. 242b (iden- 

 tified by Dr. K. Miiller). Arthur's Pass. Castle Hill, Canter- 

 bury ; T. W. N. B. Tarawera, Hawke's Bay; H. Hill. 

 Campbell Island ; No. 308 ; T. Kirk. 



Anisothecium jamesoni. (Taylor, in Hook. Lond. Journ., 



vi., 332 — Dicranum.) 



" Caespitosum ; caule elongato. Folia laxe inserta, e basi 

 brevi erectiore subquadrata, cellulis elongatis laxiusculis pellu- 

 cidis, subito in subulam patentem elongatam obscuram con- 

 tracta, nervo in subula a folii lamina indistincto, integerrima ; 

 perichsetialia basi latiora, duplo longiora, obovata. Theca in 

 pedunculo rubro elongato, oblonga, inclinata operculo subu- 

 lato. Angstrcemia hookeri, C. Miill., Syn., ii., p. 607. Hab. 

 Andes Quitenses, Jameson; Fnegia,, Lechler ; Hermit's Island, 

 Hooker. Caulis ^l^- uncialis. Folia fulva. Pedunculus 

 subuncialis." — Mitten, " Musci Austro-Americani," p. 39. 



This is not Dicranum jamesoni, Hook., Ic. PL, i., 179, 

 which Mitten refers to Gampylopus concolor, Hook. {Dicranum). 

 I received from Mr. Kirk authentic specimens of this moss, 

 which were identified by Mr. Mitten. Whangapehatu ; Kirk; 

 No. 299. I have it also from Greymouth, collected by Mr. 

 Gulliver; Wright, No. 804: and from the Bealey River (alt., 

 2,500it.) ; T. W. N.. B. 



