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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



\Musci. 



Stems about i inch high, densely crowded, the surculi of the current year intermixed with old ones retaining 

 the bases of the leaves only, and hence appearing bristly, rigid, simple. Fertile stems forming a complanate, lanceo- 

 late frond. The lateral leaves distichous, elliptic lanceolate, entire, with a stout nerve reaching nearly to the apex, 

 vertically disposed as to their edges, but not as to their insertion on the stem, dorsal accessory leaves roundish- 

 apiculate, appressed, larger towards the top of the stem, which is nearly naked below, or with very small scattered 

 scale-like leaves. Perichatial leaves longer, erect, linear; areola round, rather small; texture of leaves firm; 

 colour yellowish-green. Seta about 3 lines long. Capsule elliptic-oblong, erect, contracted towards the mouth, an- 

 nulus distinct. Operculum nearly as long as the capsule, with a slender inclined beak. Calyptra longer, subulate, 

 dimidiate, roughish at the apex, reddish-brown. Male stems in separate tufts, smaller; male flower gemmiform, 

 with small, closely imbricated, ovate scales ; paraphyses few or none.— Plate LXXXVII. Fig. 5 :— 1, plants, 

 natural size; 2, a plant, magnified; 3, capsule and calyptra; 4, capsule without a calyptra; 5, 6, 7, leaves; 8, ac- 

 cessory leaf : — all magnified. 



Section 2. Pleurocaiipi. 



Tribe XIII. Fabeoniace/e. 

 Gen. XLIII. AULACOPILUM, Wils. 



Peristomium nullum. Calyptra sulcata, magna, capsulam obtegens, latere flssa. Capsula erecta, 

 asqualis, exannulata. Seta lateralis. Folia distiche imbricata, glauca, enervia. Florescentia monoica. 

 {avXa^, a furrow; mXos, calyptra.) 



1. Aulacopilum glaucum, Hook. fil. et Wils., Wilson in Loncl. Journ. Bot. 1848, p. 90. tab. iv A. 



Hab. Northern Island : Bay of Islands, on trees, with Fabronia, Colenso. 



A very small Moss, with creeping stems, sparingly branched. Leaves distichous, obliquely ovate, acuminate, 

 papillose glaucous green, appressed when dry; areolae granular. Perichatial leaves erect, lanceolate. Seta short, 

 not twice the length of the capsule, which is roundish-ovate, truncate at the mouth. Operculum comco-rostellate, 

 half as long as the capsule. Calyptra nearly twice as long, embracing the seta below, and in other respects like 

 that of Calymperes, when ripe split laterally, yellowish-brown. 



Gen. XLIV. FABRONIA, Bridel. 



Peristomium simplex. Denies 16, coriacei, per paria approximate inflexi. Calyptra cuculliformis. 

 Capsula erecta, piriformis, exannulata.— Folia plerumque ciliato-dentata, laxe reticulata. 



1 Fabronia australis, Hook.; caule repente vage ramoso, foliis ovatis vel ovato-lanceolatis acumi- 

 natis concaviusculis snbserratis plus minus secundis seminerviis, capsula subrotunda, operculo planus- 

 cxdo.— Hooker, Muse. Fxot. t. 160. Schwmgr. Suppl. t. 247 (fig. melior quoad folium). 

 Yar. /3 ; foliis latioribus. 



Hab. Northern Island : Bay of Islands, /. B. II., Colenso. 



A very small Moss, found also in Australia (King George's Sound).-Zm^ crowded, more or less second, 

 turned upwards, minutely serrulate. Pericytial leaves short, ovate. Capsule roundish, subpyriform, certainly 

 smooth (not ribbed, as Schwaegrichen figures it).-#. secunda, Montague, from the East Indies, has leaves much 

 more attenuated and less crowded, and is twice the size of this. P. polycarpa, Hook., has leaves entire, and of 

 firmer texture. 



