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when dry. Fruiting -branch leaves : lower and middle oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapered into a hair-point, hyaline at the apes ; 

 upper oblong, tapered into a hair-point, convolute, sheathing ; 

 perichsetial longest, cylindric, tapered into a hair-point, hyaline 

 at the apex. Fruit terminal. Upper half oi fruitstalk hygro- 

 metric, flexuous, and decurved when moist, erect and spirally 

 twisted when dry. CopswZe subpyriform. Operculum oblique, 

 conico-rostrate, about half the length of the capsule. Peristome 

 single, 16, perforated, lower half incurved, upper erect, united 

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

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

 lected by E. B. 



11. G. rams, n.s. 



Plants dioecious, growing in dense patches from lin. to 3|-in. 

 high, dull yellowish-green above, pale-brown below. Stems 

 slender, simple or branched, gemmiform at the apex. Branches 

 aggregated, arising from the apex ; one or two of them are 

 innovations continuing the stems, the others being short 

 branches bearing the fruit, variable in number. Leaves in- 

 serted all round the stem, imbricating, erecto-patent, straight, 

 semi-convolute ; middle ones linear-lanceolate, acute ; upper 

 shorter and broader, similar in outline to the middle ones. 

 Margins entire. Nerve broad, lamellate, erect and adpressed 

 when dry. Fruiting -branch leaves : lower and middle oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapered into a hair-point, about half the length ; 

 upper larger, oblong, tapered into a short point, semi-con- 

 volute ; perichsetial cylindric, erect, sheathing, with an acumi- 

 nate point. Fruit terminal. Upper half of fruitstalk hygro- 

 metric, flexuous and decurved when moist, erect and spirally 

 twisted when dry. Capsule ovate. Month slightly oblique. 

 Op>erculunt, not found. Peristome single, 16, bifid to the middle, 

 united at the base. Calyptra not found. 



Hab. On marshy ground, near Lake Te Anau; January, 

 1890. Collected by E. B. 



12. C. ohingaitii, n.s. 



Plants difficious, growing in loose tufts about lin. high, 

 pale-green above, brown below. Stems simple or dichoto- 

 mous, slightly gemmiform at the apex. Branches aggregated, 

 arising from the apex, one or two being innovations, the 

 others being short and fertile, variable in number. Leaves 

 imbricating all round, secund, semi-convolute ; middle ones 

 shortly oblong-lanceolate, tapering into a slender minutely- 

 toothed point, about twice the length of the lower portion ; 

 upper ones with a short ovate base, tapering into a slender 

 point, minutely toothed, three times the length of the base. 

 Nerve lamellate, and occupying one-third of the breadth. 



