Brown. — On Neiv Zealand Musci. 473 



17. C. cylindricothecwn, n.s. 



Plants dioecious, growing in dense tufts, about lin. high, 

 yellow above, brown below. Stems nearly simple, slender, 

 subgemmiform at the apex. Branches aggregated, arising 

 from the apex ; one or two of them are innovations continu- 

 ing the stem, the others are short branches bearing the 

 fruit, variable in number. Leaves inserted all round the stem, 

 subsecund or erecto-patent ; middle ones oblong-lanceolate, 

 tapered into a long slender hair-point, entire or slightly 

 toothed ; upper broader, ovate - lanceolate, tapering into a 

 hair - point. Nerve bi'oad, lamellate, semi - convolute, erect 

 when dry. Areola oblong, small. Fruiting - branch leaves : 

 lower ones linear - lanceolate, tapered into a hair - point ; 

 middle oblong, suddenly contracted into a hair-point, longer 

 than the lower portion ; upper larger, but otherwise similar ; 

 perichaetial leaves, lower half cylindric, sheathing, tapering 

 into a slender hair-point, minutely toothed. Fruit terminal. 

 Fr uits talk j\in. long; upper half hygrometric, flexuous and 

 decurved when moist, erect and spirally twisted when dry. 

 Capsule cylindric, narrowed at the base, which is minutely 

 scabrid. Operculwn straight, narrow, conico-rostrate, one 

 and a half times shorter than the capsule. Peristome single, 

 16, bifid, united at the base, incurved below, erect above. 

 Calyptra cucullate, fringed at the base with cilia. 



Hab. Wet turfy soil, near the Bealev ; February, 1889. 

 CoUected by E. B. 



18. C. ellipticothecum, n.s. 



Plants dioecious, growing in dense patches from lin. to 

 4in. high, yellow above, brown below. Stems radiculose. 

 Branches barren and fertile, aggregated in the gemmiform apex 

 of the stem, fertile ones very short, barren ones from fin. to 

 lin. long ; one or two forming the continuation of the stem, 

 which in turn become gemmiform jDrevious to fruiting, 

 which gives the plants a knotted appearance. Leaves imbri- 

 cating all round the stem, slightly secund, nearly erect below, 

 erecto-patent at the apex ; middle stem ones oblong-lanceo- 

 late, tapering into a long slender point, entire or minutely 

 toothed at the apex ; upper ones broader but otherwise similar. 

 Nerve broad, plaited, occupying all the upper portion of the 

 leaf, concave, radiculose at the base. Areola small, trapezoid, 

 alar ones large, unaltered when dry. Fruiting -branch leaves 

 small, base oblong, tapering into a long slender point, base 

 sheathing, nerve broad ; perichaetial leaves convolute, sheath- 

 ing the fruitstalk, then tapering into a long, slender, curved 

 point, inner one largest. Fruit terminal. Fruitstalk long, 

 hygrometric in the middle, flexuous and decurved when moist, 

 erect and spirally twisted when dry. Capsule cylindricj 



