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ones with a short subrotund base, tapering suddenly into a 

 long slender point three and a half times longer than the 

 sheathing-base, semi-convolute. Margins entire. Nerve con- 

 tinued to the apex, and occupying all the upper portion of the 

 slender point. Upper areola small ; lower narrow, oblong, 

 unaltered when dry. Perichcetial leaves smaller than the stem 

 ones, innermost smallest, erect, with a large subrotund base, 

 suddenly tapered into a slender point the same length as the 

 base ; outer one with a longer broadly oblong sheathing-base, 

 tapering into a slender circinate point. Nerve continuous. 

 Fruit terminal. Fruitstalk inclined, fin. long, red. Capsule 

 subrotund. MoutJi wide. Operculum very oblique, convexo- 

 rostrate, longer than the capsule. Calyptra cucullate. Male 

 inflorescence gemmaceous at the apex of an unbranched stem. 

 Hab. On rocks, old moraine near Waimakariri glaciers. 

 Collected by E. B. ; February, 1889. 



20. Dicramim colinum (Blindia?), sp. nov. 



Plants growing in large dense tufts Sin. to 4in. in dia- 

 meter and from 2in. to Sin. high, very dai'k-brown, almost black, 

 branched subfastigiately. Branches short. Leaves inserted 

 all round the stem, very secund, falcate, middle ones with a 

 short narrow ovate-lanceolate base, and a long slender point 

 three or four times the length of the base ; upper ones with a 

 subrotund sheathing-base, suddenly tapered into a long slender 

 point between three and four times longer than the base, con- 

 cave. Margins entire. Nerve slender, continuous, occupying 

 all the upper portion of the leaf. Ujyper areola linear ; loiver 

 narrow, oblong, unaltered when dry. Perichatial leaves 

 shorter than the stem ones, innermost ovate, with a short 

 point, sheathing, outer base ovate, sheathing, tapered into a 

 slender curved point two and a half times longer than the 

 base, nerved to the apex. Fruitstalk terminal, stout, straight, 

 -fin. long. Capsule erect, small, very short, turbinate or 

 obcircinate, unaltered when dry. Mouth \V\d.Q. Pcristomeim.- 

 perfect, only the bases of broken teeth seen. Operculum 

 wide, slightly oblique, conico-rostrate, one-third longer than 

 the capsule. Calyptra not found. 



Ilab. Growing half-submerged in small tarn, along with 

 a large, almost black Hcpiatica, on the summit of Thomson's 

 Hange, Stewart Island. Collected by E. B. 



Section B, 



Plants in tvhich the Sheathing -bases of the Perichatial Leaves 



are long. 



21. Dicranum l)illardierii,* Bridel, Handb. N.Z. Fl.,p. 412. 

 In this species the capsule is gibbous, and the perichtetial 



