Brown. — On New Zealand Musci. 467 



3. C. clavatus, Brown, Handbk. N.Z. Fl., p. 414. 



I have only seen one specimen of this moss, which was 

 collected by Mr. Petrie in Otago, and agrees very well with 

 the description in the Handbook. My figures are drawn from 

 his specimens. 



4. C. sparJcsii, n.s. 



Plants dioecious, growing in loose patches, liin. high, 

 slender, yellowish-green at the apex, brown below. Stem 

 simple or dichotomously branched. Branches aggregated, 

 arising from the gemmiform apex of the stem, one or two 

 innovations continuing the stem, the other ones being short 

 fruiting -branches. Leaves inserted all round the stem, 

 flexuous or subsecund, lower ones small, tapering from the 

 base into a slender point ; upper ones long, tapering from an 

 oblong base into a long sleiider point, toothed near the apex, 

 convolute. Nerves broad, lanceolate. Areola linear-oblong. 

 Leaves unaltered when dry. Leaves on fruiting -branch : 

 lower small convolute ; perichaetial convolute, sheathing, 

 tapering from an oblong base into a long slender toothed 

 point. Nerves narrow. Fruit terminal. Seta hygrometric, 

 from the middle upwards i to | decurved when moist, erect 

 and spirally twisted when dry. Gajjsule elhptic, tapering 

 into the fruitstalk. Operculum stout, oblique, conico-ros- 

 trate. Peristome single, 16, united at the base, bifid ; lower 

 half dome-shaped, upper half erect and slightly cohering at 

 the tips. Galyptra cucullate, fringed with cilia at the base. 



Hah. Wet base of tussocks, Horse-shoe Lake, near Christ- 

 church ; March, 1883. Collected by E. B. 



5. C. torquatus, Mitten, Handbk. N.Z. Fl. p. 414. 



This plant, although not so common as C. introflexus, is 

 to be found all over New Zealand. 



6. G. cockaynii, n.s. 



Plants dioecious, growing in tufts, yellowish above, dark- 

 brown below, lin. to 2in. high. Steins simple, or branched, 

 gemmiform at the apex. Branches aggregated at the apex, 

 one or two of them are innovations containing the stem, the 

 other ones being short fruiting-branches. Leaves inserted all 

 round the stem, imbricating, semi-convolute, middle and upper 

 ones very similar, ovate-lanceolate, tapered into a subulate 

 point. Nerve broad, lanceolate, erect, and adpressed when 

 dry. Fruiting -branch leaves : lower and middle oblong, shortly 

 tapering into a hair-point ; upper oblong-lanceolate, tapering 

 into a hair-point ; perichastial, cylindric, sheathing, suddenly 

 contracted into a hair-point. Fruit terminal. Fruitstalk 

 hygrometric above the middle, flexuous, and decurved when 



