Musci Exorict.—MVenvziesiani. 
NECKERA SETOSA. 
Neckera, caule erecto ramoso, foliis confertissimis e lata 
basi subulato-setaceis nervosis, seta perichetio duplo 
longiore, capsula oblonga erecta, operculo rostrato. 
(Tas. VIII.) 
Anictangium setosum. Hedw. Sp. Muse. p. 43. t. 5. 
Schwegr. Suppl. p. 37. 
Has. Insule Australes. Hedw. In sinu Dusky Bay dicto legit 
D. Menzies, 1791. 
‘Caules digitales vel palmares, erecti, flexuosi, sub-pinnatim ra- 
mosi, ramis simplicibus spe curvatis, inferne denudati. Folia 
confertissima, e lata basi subulato-setacea, serrata, subsecunda, 
lutescentia, nervo tenui fusco percursa. Perichetialia his 
multo minora, vix serrata. Sete pericheetio vix duplo longi- 
ores, lineas duas long, flexuose, seepe quatuor ad sex prope 
apicem caulis ramorumque site. Capsula oblonga, erecta, 
tufo-fusca, Operculum longe rostratum, rostro curvato. Pe- 
ristomium duplex: ext. dentibus erectis, lineari-subulatis, di- 
‘Stantibus, rubris; int. ciliis 16, flavis, e membrana perbrevi 
ortis. Calyptra deest. 
Among the splendid productions of New Zealand Mr. Menzies 
‘had the good fortune to discover this fine plant in so perfect a 
state as to enable us to remove it from Anictangium, where it 
has long held a place, to its Proper genus, among which indeed 
there is none with which it can be confounded. I Possess no 
specimen with a calyptra, but the teeth are truly those: of an 
Hedwigian Neckera, 
Fig. 1, leaves. Fig. 2, seta, perichetium, capsule, and oper- 
culum. Fig, 3, perichetial leaves, Fig. 4, portion of the peri- 
‘Stome,—All magn, 
