Browk. — On Neio Zealand Musci. 475 



shortly tapered into a long hair-point, semi-convolute ; peri- 

 chaetial, cylindric, sheathing, tapered into a hair - point, 

 hyaline, and slightly toothed at apex. Fruit terminal, 

 solitary. Upper half of fruitstalk hygrometrie, flexuous and 

 decurved when moist, erect and spirally twisted when dry. 

 Capsule narrow, cylindric, narrowed towards the base. Oper- 

 culum subulate, two-thirds the length of the capsule. Peri- 

 sto7ne single, 16, bifid, united at the base, lower half incurved, 

 upper half erect. Galyptra cucullate, fringed at the base wath 

 cilia. 



Hab. North side of Mount Torlesse, near Otarama, on 

 wet clay banks ; March, 1896. Collected by E. B. 



21. G. arenarius, n.s. 



Plants dioecious, growing in dense patches, ^in. to fin. 

 high, yellow above, brown below. Sterns simple or branched, 

 gemmiform at the apex. Branches aggregated at the apex ; 

 one or two are innovations continuing the stem, the others are 

 short, bearing the fruit, variable in number. Leaves small, 

 inserted all round the stem, semi-convolute ; middle ones 

 narrow, linear-lanceolate, tapering into a very slender hair- 

 point, shortly hyaline, and with a few minute teeth at the 

 apex ; upper, ovate, lanceolate, tapering into a slender hair- 

 point, shortly hyaline. Nervehvoeid, lamellate, flexuous when 

 dry. Areola oblong. Fruitmg -branch leaves small, convolute ; 

 lower, subulate, tapered into a hair-point ; middle, shortly 

 oblong-lanceolate ; upper, longer, tapering into a long slender 

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

 sheathing, tapering into a long slender point. Fruit terminal. 

 Fruitstalk fin. long; upper half hygrometrie, flexuous and 

 decurved when moist, erect and spirally twisted when dry. 

 Capsule small, subcylindric. Operculum subulate, oblique, 

 nearly two-thirds the length of the capsule. Peristomes all 

 destroyed. Galyptra cucullate, fringed at the base with cilia. 



Hab. Wet sand, Stewart Island, March, 1892. Collected 

 by E. B. 



Key to Species. 



