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rostrate. Peristorne single, 16, bifid above, united below 

 Calyptra cucullate, fringed at the base with cilia. 



Hab. Golden Bay, Nelson : collected by Dr. Boor. Stewart 

 Island, in marshy ground ; March, 1892 : E. B. 



Var. (3 intermedia. Stems twice as stout as hicolor. 



Var. y. Stems very stout, from four to five times stouter 

 than hicolor. There was only one capsule found on this 

 variety, which was slightly damaged. Collected by K. B. 



15. C. stewartii, n.s. 



Plants growing m very dense patches, from 2in. to 3|-in.high, 

 yellowish-green above, dark-brown below. Stejiis flexuous, 

 erect, simple. Leaves imbricating all round the stem, nearly 

 erect, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, concave, cucullate at the 

 apex. Nerve very broad, lanceolate, continued to the apex. 

 Margins entire, erect, and adpressed when dry. Areola small, 

 trapezoid. Fruit not found. 



Hab. On the ground, summit of Mount Thomson, Stewart 

 Island ; March, 1892. Collected by E. B. 



16. C. guUiverii, n.s. 



Plants dioecious, growing in dense tufts, l-|in. to 2in. high, 

 pale-green. Stems slender, simple or dichotomously branched, 

 gemmiform at the apex. Branches aggregated, arising from 

 the apex, one or two of them, being innovations, in continuation 

 of the stem, the others being short branches bearing the fruit. 

 Leaves small, inserted all round the stem, loosely imbricating, 

 spreading or incurved ; middle ones with a short ovate base, 

 shortly tapered into a slender hair -point, three times the 

 length of the base ; upper ones shortly oblong, tapered into a 

 slender point, base sheathing. Nerve one-third of the breadth, 

 lamellate, scarcely altered when dry. Areola small, oblong. 

 Fruiting -branch leaves : lower ones, base shortly ovoid, taper- 

 ing into a slender hair-point, three to four times longer than 

 the base ; middle, obovate, suddenly rounded into a hair-point, 

 four times longer than the base ; apper, longer, oblong, rounded 

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

 sheathing ; perichaetial cylindric, sheathing the fruitstalk, 

 suddenly contracted into a slender hair-point, two and a half 

 to three times the length of the lower portion. Fruit ter- 

 minal. Fruitstalk -^^in. long, hygrometric from the middle 

 upwards, flexuous and decurved when moist, erect and spirally 

 twisted when dry. Capsxde narrow, ovate-oblong, narrowed 

 to the mouth. Opercukim oblique, subulate two-thirds the 

 length of the capsule. Peristome, 16, single, bifid, lower half 

 incurved, upper half erect, united at the base. Calyptra not 

 fringed at the base with cilia. 



Hab. Wet places, near Greymouth, West Coast ; 1896. 

 Collected by W. J. Gulliver. 



