Bkown. — On Neio Zealand Musci. 469 



hygrometric above the middle, flexuous and decurved when 

 moist, erect and spirally twisted when dry. Capsule elliptic. 

 Operculum narrow, oblique, conico-rostrate. Peristome single, 

 16, bifid three-quarters of their length, united at the base, 

 lower portion incurving, upper erect. Calyptra cucullate, 

 fringed at the base with cilia. 



Hab. Otira Gorge; December, 1887. Collected by E. B. 



Var. (3. Stems more slender, and the hair-points of the 

 fruiting-branch leaves nearly one-half longer. 



Hab. West Coast, near Greymouth. Collected by W. J. 

 Gulliver, 1895, on very wet ground. 



■9. C. bcllii, n.s. 



Plants dioecious, growing in dense tufts, brownish-yellow 

 above, brown below, iin. to fin. high. Stems simple or 

 branclaed, gemmiform at the apex. Branches aggregated at 

 the apex ; one or two of them are innovations continuing the 

 stem, the others being short branches bearing the fruit, 

 Leaves inserted all round the stem, imbricating, erecto-patent, 

 semi-convolute ; middle ones small, narrow, shortly oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapered into a hair-point, double the length of the 

 lower portion ; upper ones ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a long 

 hair-point, hyaline, and minutely toothed at the apex. Nerve 

 broad, lamellate, erect when dry. Areola small, quadrate. 

 Leaves of fruiting -brandies small, tapering from a short ovate 

 base into a hair-point, two and a half times longer than 

 the base, hyaline at the apex ; upper oblong, tapered into a 

 hair-point, hyaline at the apex ; perichaetial cylindric, sheath- 

 ing, tapering into a hair-point, hyaline at apex. Fruit ter- 

 minal. Friiitstalk hygrometric above the middle, flexuous 

 and decurved when moist, erect and spirally twisted when 

 dry. Capsule pyriform. Opercidtim oblique, conico-rostrate 

 for two-thirds of capsule. Peristome single, bifid, incurved in 

 the lower half, erect in the upper. Calyptra cucullate, fringed 

 at the apex with cilia. 



Hab. Lake Te Anau, among decaying S'p/tag'iizw^; January, 

 1890. Collected by E. B. 



10. C. icalkerii, n.s. 



Plants diceeious, growing in dense tufts, iin. to li^in. high, 

 yellowish at the apex, almost black below. Stems simple or 

 branched, gemmiform at the apex. Branches aggregated, 

 arising from the apex ; one or two are innovations continuing 

 the stem, the others being short fruiting-branches, variable in 

 their number. Leaves inserted all round the stem, erecto- 

 patent ; middle ones oblong-lanceolate, acute ; upper, lanceo- 

 late, tapered into an obtuse hyaline apex, semi-convolute. 

 Margins entire. Nerve broad, lanceolate, erect, and adpressed 



