BY L. RODWAY. 129 



RlliZOGONlUM MNIOIDES, Bnd. 



Syn: R. Ilooken, CM. 



Stems numerous, erect, simple, or nearly so, 5 c.in. 

 Leaves pluiifarious, patent, or spreading, crisped when dry, 

 4-5 m.m., linear lanceolate; margin slightly thickened, arm- 

 ed with double spinose serrations; nerve percurrent ; cells 

 roughly quadrate, 7-12 u., the walla not much thickened. 

 Seta arising rather low down the stem, 5 cm. Capsule 

 cernuous, slightly oblique, broadly oblong, 2.7 m.m. ; lid 

 Tostrate, hslf as long. 



Mt. Wellington, Forth Gorge, Western Mounts. 



RHIZOGONIUM SPINIFORME, Bruch. 



Stems erect, simple, rigid, brownish, 5 cm. Leaves not 

 crisped, when dry. tough, linear, lanceolate, attenuated 

 above to a filiform point, 8-10 m.m.; margin thickened, 

 closely armed with double spinose serrations ; nerve ex- 

 current; cells rotund, 8-12 u., strongly incrassate. Rest 

 not seen. 



Tasman's Peninsula. 



GONIOBRYUM, Lindb. 



Medium size, stems suberect, from a creeping rhizome, 

 branching only at the base. Leaves lanceolate, base nar- 

 row, apex acute; margin spinulose; nerve slender, van- 

 ishing below the apex; cells large, rhomboid or fusiform, 

 thin walled, 13-20 x 60-90 u. Fruit on a short branch, in- 

 serted low down below the branches; seta long, slender, 

 capsule oblong, cernuous, or pendulous, base with a short, 

 tapering apophysis; lid shortly rostrate, calyptra narrow, 

 cucullate; peristome double; exostome teeth, 16, lanceo- 

 late tapering to a slender, colourless, minutely papillose 

 apex, base of one series of short, broad cells ; endostome a 

 delicate membrane, half as long as the teeth, and 16 lanceo- 

 late processes, with 4 slender cilia between each pair. 



Marginal teeth single subbasilare. 



Marginal teeth in pairs pellucidum. 



