304- Mr. Menztes’s Account of a Species of Polytrichum. 
This fpecies was found amongft the duplicates of Mr. Nelfon’s 
colle&tion of plants from New Zeeland, in Sir Jofeph Banks’s 
Herbarium; and as it agrees fo nearly with P. rudellum, perhaps the 
beft manner of defcribing it is to point out the difference. 
The falk of this is flightly branched, and in general taller than 
P. rubellum. The leaves are larger and more acutely lanceolate, with 
whitith edges finely ferrated, and middle nerves ftrongly dentated ; 
their texture is more tender and fragile; their colour in the dried 
ftate is the fame, but whether they are reddifh, like the others, in 
their recent ftate, is uncertain ; they are more crowded at the tops 
and about the divifions of the branches. The peduncles in general 
are at leaft half an inch longer, and terminate both the upper and 
lower branches; but the moft remarkable difference is in the 
operculum being long and fubulate, whilft in the other it is flat, 
with a {mall point iffuing from its centre. The caf/ule, in this, is 
longer and more flender, and the exterior calyptra is of a fubulate 
fhape, whilft in the other it is of a conical figure. 
END OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. 
