BY L. KODWAY. I'.il 



tuiid, more or less convex. Seta 5-6 m.m. ; capsule ob- 

 long, arcuat&j sometimes nearly straight, 1 m.m.; lid red 

 conic-rostrate, shorter ; calyptra short, broad, torn on one 

 side ; peristome bright red. 



The size of plant and shape of leaf varies in response 

 to local conditions. In exposed situations, it is stunted, 

 and the leaf much shorter and broadly oblong, but the 

 small, nearly rotund cells are characteristic. This is the 

 F. incurvus, liook. non Starke, of the Floras of Tasmania 

 and New Zealand. 



Slopes of Mt. Wellington 



FISSIDENS RIGIDULUS, Hf. et W. 



Simple, or with few equal branches, rather rigid, dark 

 green when submerged, lighter when growing out of water, 

 3-5 cm. Leaves numerous, clo&e set, erecto-patent, straight, 

 lanceolate, acute, 2.7 m.m.; margin strongly limbate, en- 

 tire, with a more or less sinuou? edge, border and nerve 

 usually vanishing in the extreme apex, rarely just con- 

 tinuous, with the apical cells more elongated and incras- 

 sate; nerve bold, attenuating above; cells irregular in 

 shape and size, quadrato-hexagonal, mostly 6-8 u. Seta 

 terminal, slender, 8 m.m., capsule erect or inclined, naiTOW, 

 oblong, with a tapering base to very broad, mouth large, 1 

 m.m. long; lid usually with a rostrum half as long, but 

 sometimes short. 



Very common on rocks in running water. 



FISSIDENS SEMILIMBATUS, CM., ot Hpe. 



Small, yellowish, dioecious, usually 2-4 m.m., but the 

 sterile stems often elongating. Leaves on sterile fernal© or 

 neuter stems lanceolate, acute, erecto-patent, straight, 0.6- 

 1.2 m.m., many, nei-ve lost in the apex, border narrow on 

 the sheath only ; fertile stems decimate, very short, with 

 few longer, narrower leaves, the nerve generally excurrent ; 

 on male stems the leaves are manv. broadly oblong, nei've 

 vanishing in the apex, and the border i? obsolete, or none ; 

 cells irregular in size and shape, roughly hexagonal, thin 



