Brown. — On Neiv Zealand Musci. 471 



scarcely altered when dry. Areola quadrate. Leaves, fruiting : 

 lower and middle having a short erect sheathing-base, tapering 

 into a long, slender, curved hair-point four times longer than 

 the base ; upper ones sheathing, base oblong, tapering into a 

 long hair-point ; perichaetial slender, sheathing, cyliudric, 

 suddenly tapered into a long, slender, flexuous hair-point, 

 entire or mmutely toothed. Fruit terminal. Fruitstalk 

 hygrometric above the middle, decurved when moist, erect 

 and spirally twisted when dry. Capsule ovate. Peristome 

 single, 16, bifid, united at the base ; lower half incurved, 

 upper erect: Operc2ilum not found. Galyptra fringed with 

 cilia at the base. 



Hab. Decayed wood, bed of Eiver Otahapi, a tributary of 

 the Eangitikei," North Island, N.Z. Collected by E. B. 



13. C. bicolor, Hornsch., Handbk. N.Z. FL, p. 415. 



I have received authentic specimens of this plant collected 

 by Dr. Boor, in Golden Bay, in the Province of Nelson. Mr. 

 W. A. Weymouth has also sent me some Tasmanian speci- 

 mens of this moss, authenticated by Dr. Brotherus, of Hel- 

 singfors, which are identical with the Nelson specimens, and 

 also with specimens collected by me in Stewart Island, March, 

 1892. Among those then collected were several varieties of 

 this species, one of the most distinct of them being twice as 

 stout as C. bicolor, strongly resembling C. kirkii, Mitten. I 

 have named this particular variety G. intermedia, to distin- 

 guish it from a much stouter variety, which is from four to 

 five times stouter than G. bicolor. The drawings given of 

 C. bicolor are taken from Dr. Boor's specimens. It appears 

 to be very local. 



Amended description. — Plants dioecious, growing in dense 

 tufts, 2in. to 3^in. high, yellow at the apex, dark-brown 

 below. Stems slender, simple or branched, 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, erect or erecto - patent, imbricating ; 

 middle ones linear-lanceolate, obtuse ; upper larger, oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse. Nerve one-third of the breadth, lamel- 

 late, semi-convolute, adpressed when dry. Fruiting -branch 

 leaves : lower and middle oiies shortly oblong-lanceolate, 

 tapered into a hair-point, half of the length ; upper larger, 

 similar in outline, nerves narrow ; perichaetial cj^lindric, 

 sheathing, shortly tapered into a short subacute point. Fruit 

 terminal. Fruitstalk hygrometric above the middle, flexuous, 

 and decurved when moist, erect and spirally twisted when 

 dry. Capsule ovate, symmetrical. Operculum oblique, conico- 



