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moist, erect and sparsely twisted when dry. Capsule ovate, 

 symmetrical. 02)erculum oblique, conico-rostrate, beak slender. 

 Peristome single, 16, bifid to the middle ; lower half incurved, 

 upper erect. Calyptra cucullate, fringed at the base with cilia. 

 Hah. Marshy ground, Stewart Island ; March, 1892. Col- 

 lected by E. B. 



7. G. traillii, n.s. 



Plants dioecious, growing in dense tufts, yellowish above, 

 dark-brown below, lin. to 2in. high. Stevis simple or branched,, 

 gemmiform at the apex. Branches aggregated at the apex ; 

 one or two are innovations, which continue the stem, the 

 others being short branches bearing the fruit. Leaves in- 

 serted all round the stem, imbricating, semi-convolute, middle 

 ones linear-lanceolate, tapering into a hyaline hair-point,, 

 entire or minutely toothed, nearly occupying all the leaf; 

 upper shorter, lanceolate, shortly tapering into a hyaline point. 

 Nerve broad, lanceolate, erect when dry. Fruiting -branch 

 leaves : lower and middle linear-lanceolate, tapering into a hair- 

 point half the length of the leaf ; upper, oblong, suddenly 

 contracted into a hair-point ; perichaetial narrow, cylindric,. 

 sheathing contracted into an acuminate point, hyaline at the 

 apex. Fruit terminal. Fruitstalk hygrometric above the 

 middle, flexuous and decurved when moist, erect and spirally 

 twisted when dry. Capsule ovate, symmetrical. Oiierculum 

 short, conico-rostrate, oblique. Peristome single, 16, bifid, 

 lower half incurved, upper erect, united at the base. Calyptra 

 fringed at the base with ciha. 



Hab. Marshy ground, Stewart Island ; March, 1892. Col- 

 lected by E. B. 



8. C. searcllii, n.s. 



Plants dioecious, growing in dense tufts, golden-yellow 

 above, brown below, 2in. to 4in. high. Steins radiculose,. 

 simple or branched, gemmiform at the apex. Branches aggre- 

 gated at the apex ; one or two of them are innovations, which 

 continue the stem, the other ones being short branches bear- 

 ing fruit, their number being variable. Leaves inserted all 

 round the stem, erecto-patent, semi-convolute ; middle ones 

 linear-lanceolate, tapered into a hair-point ; upper about the 

 same length, ovate-lanceolate, tapered into a stouter hair- 

 point, with a few teeth on the apex. Nerve broad, lamellated, 

 erect when dry. Areola oblong. Leaves on the fruiting- 

 branches semi-convolute, lower linear-lanceolate, middle oval- 

 lanceolate, all tapered into a hair-point; upper ones oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapering into a hair-point, slightly toothed on the 

 apex ; perichaetial cylindric, sheathing, tapered shortly into a 

 hair-point, inner one short. Friiit terminal. Fruitstalk 



