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irregularly perforated, and bifid or trifid. Operculum slightly 

 oblique, conico-rostrate, longer than the capsule. Calyptra 

 cucullate. 



Hab. Wet limestone rocks, Cragieburn Eange, near Castle 

 Hill. Collected by E. B. ; March, 1891. 



11. Dicramim tasmanicum,* Hook, f., Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 410. 

 Hab. On wet calcareous banks. 



12. Dicranum tasmanicum (var. (S. ?) 



Collected at Paterson's Creek, Otarama, by E. B. ; 

 January, 1895. 



13. Dicramim lancifolium (Blindia?), sp. nov. 



Plants growing in dense patches from |-in. to fin. high, 

 brownish-green above, brown below. Stems erect, nearly 

 simple, branching by innovations. Branches short, erect. 

 Leaves small, inserted all round the stem, closely imbricating, 

 erecto-patent or occasionally spreading, ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, semi-convolute. Margins entire, slightly 

 incurved. Nerve ending close to the apex. Areola dense 

 nearly to the base ; near to the base the cells are oblong. 

 Leaves nearly erect when dry. Perichcetial leaves erect, nar- 

 rower, not so concave as the stem ones, and about the same 

 length. Nerve ending close to the apex. Margins entire. 

 Fruit terminal. Fruitstalk erect, red, fin. long, with a fine 

 spiral twist. Capsule erect, sub-rotund. Mouth wide. Peri- 

 stome, opercukim, and calyptra not found. 



Hab. Wet calcareous banks, Weka Pass. Collected by 

 E. B. ; March, 1893. 



14. Dicranum rostratum, sp. nov. 



Plants growing in dense patches from ^in. to lin. high, 

 green above, brown below. Stems fastigiately branched. 

 Branches short, leaves inserted all round the stem, erecto- 

 patent, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, slightly re- 

 curved, very concave. Margins entire, nerve ending near the 

 apex. Areola dense to near the base ; close to the base they 

 are oblong, crisped when dry. Perichcetial leaves erect, ligu- 

 late, obtuse, slightly longer than the stem ones. Nerve ending 

 below the apex, slightly concave. Fruit terminal. Fruitstalk 

 erect, slightly flexuous, fin. long. Capsule subrotund. Mouth 

 wide. Peristome single, approximated in pairs, very irregularly 

 bi- or tri-fid, and variously perforated. Operculum wide, 

 conico-rostrate, twice the length of the capsule. Calyptra 

 cucullate. 



Hab. Limestone rocks in the bed of Paterson's Creek, 

 Otarama. Collected by E. B. ; January, 1895. 



