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more fruitstalks, nerveless or very indistinct, ending in an 

 acute point or short hair-point. 



Plants in which the Sheathing Portions of the Perichcetial 

 Leaves are short. 



27. Dicranum setosum,* Hook. f. and Wils., Handb. N.Z. Fl., 

 p. 412. 



In this species the capsule is gibbous, the perichastial leaves 

 are short, erect, sheathing for half of their length, then sud- 

 denly contracted into a toothed hair-point. 



28. Dicranum fulvnm, sp. nov. 



Plants growing in tufts, fulvous, from l^in.-2in. high, 

 subdichotomously branched, fastigiate. Leaves closely imbri- 

 cating, and inserted all round the stem, secund, tapering into 

 a long slender point, from a narrow ovate-lanceolate base, 

 subconvolute, minutely toothed towards the apex. Nerve con- 

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

 leaves. Upper areola small, subquadrate ; loivcr linear, 

 narrow-oblong, scarcely altered wdien dry. Perichcetial leaves 

 half as long as the upper ones, lower half erect, convolute, 

 sheathing, upper half shortly tapering into a slender hair- 

 point. Fruit terminal. Fruitstalk short, Jin. long. Capsule 

 inclined, ovate-oblong. Mouth as wide as the capsule. Peri- 

 stome single, 16, bifid about a third of their length, the bifid 

 portion unfolded, and remains so, wet or dry. Operculum not 

 found. Calyptra cucuUate. 



Hab. Bush, West Oxford. Collected by E. B.; 1885. 



29. Dicranummenziesii," Taylor, Handbook N.Z. FL, p. 412. 

 There is a clerical error in the Handbook description of 



this moss; it is described as " serrated at the base" instead 

 of " at the apex." The perichaetial leaves are shorter than 

 those of setosmn. 



30. Dictanmn menziesii, var. /?. 



The capsule is more slender, and the operculum not so 

 oblique. The sheathing-base of the inner perichsetial leaf is 

 also much longer. 



31 . Dicranum (?) o"besifolium, sp. nov. 



Plants growing in tufts, pale-yellow, 5in. to 6in. high, sub- 

 dichotomously branched. Leaves inserted all round the stem, 

 spreading or erecto-patent, broadly ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 convolute, cucullate at the apex. Margins entire, nerved. 



Hab. Eocky places, Kelly's Hill, Westland. Collected by 

 E. B. I have only collected two specimens of this moss at 



