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Transactions. — Botany. 

 5. Dicranum schreberi.* 



1. Dicranum pygmseum, sp. nov. 



Plants small, slender, gregarious, iV^- ^lig^, yellowish- 

 green. Stems nearly simple, branched by innovations. Leaves 

 very small, inserted all round the stem, erecto-patent, slightly 

 round, subulate, from a slightly broader base nerved to the 

 apex, liar^ms entire, slightly concave. Areola: upper large, 

 quadrangular ; lower slightly larger, scarcely altered when 

 dry. Perichcetial leaves nearly erect, larger than the stem 

 ones, slightly secund, subulate, from slightly broader base. 

 Margins entire. Nerve continuous to the apex. Fruitstalh 

 terminal, -Jin. long, nearly erect. Capsule small, ovate. 

 Mouth wide. Peristome single, 16, bifid, united at the base. 

 Operculum wide, oblique, conico-rostrate, slightly longer than 

 the capsule. Calyptra cucuUate, scarcely covering the oper- 

 culum. 



Hab. Damp calcareous rocks, Paterson's Creek, Otarama, 

 Collected by E. B. ; December, 1894. 



