Bkown. — On Neiv Zealand Musci. 461 



leaves are very long, erect, sheathing the fruitstalk to near the 

 middle, and ending in a short toothed hair-point. 



22. Dicranum speightii, sp. nov. 



Plants growing in caespitose tufts, 2in.-2^in. high, fulvous,, 

 sparingly branched. Brandies fastigiate. Leaves inserted all 

 round the stem, subsecund or erect ; lower narrow, oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapering into along slender convolute point toothed 

 towards the apex, upper with a short subrotund base, shortly 

 tapering into a long slender convolute point four times longer 

 than the base, toothed towards the apex. Nerve continuous. 

 Upper areola unaltered when dry. Periclicetial leaves long,, 

 erect, convolute, sheathing, suddenly contracted into a very 

 short toothed hair-point, outer leaf shorter than the inner one, 

 the perichaetial leaves being sheathed by several shorter ones, 

 the sheaths of which become shorter and the slender points 

 longer as they recede iiow\ the perichajtial ones, until the 

 sheathing - base is subrotund. Fruit acrocarpous. Fruit- 

 stalk iin. long. Capsule subcylindric, tapering tow^ards the 

 fruitstalk. Peristome single, 16, bifid for one-third of their 

 length. Operculum oblique, conico- rostrate, as long as the 

 capsule. Galyptra cucuUate. 



Hab. Eotten wood, head of the South Fiord, Lake Te 

 Anau. Collected by E. B. ; December, 1888 : named after 

 B. Speight, M.A., B.Sc, Hon. Sec, Canterbury Philosophical 

 Institute. 



23. Dicranum fasciatum/'= Hedwig, Handb. N.Z. FL, p. 412. 

 In this species the capsule is but slightly gibbous, and 



the perichaetial leaves are very long, erect, sheathing all the 

 fruitstalk, then tapering into a slender toothed point, which 

 projects above the capsule. 



24. Dicranum fasciatum, var. p. 



This moss is smaller in all the leaves, and the peristome 

 very irregularly bi- or tri-fid or cohering or irregularly per- 

 forated. 



Hah. West Coast. Collected by R. B. 



25. Dicranum robustum,:^ Hook. f. and Wils., Handb. N.Z. FL, 

 p. 411. 



In this species the capsule is gibbous, the perichaetial leaves 

 are shorter than in the above species, erect, and sheathing 

 the fruitstalk, ending in a short entire hair-point ; and my 

 specimens are nerveless. 



26. Dicranum dicarpon.-'- Hornsch., Handb. N.Z. F].,p. 411. 

 In this species the capsule is slightly gibbous, and the peri- 

 chaetial leaves are very wide, erect, generally sheathing two or 



