100 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Musct. 



Also found in Tasmania.— 2-8 inches long. Seta i inch. Inner peristome divided halfway into sixteen cari- 

 nate segments (as in Leskea) ; outer teeth yellow, firm, scarcely affected by moisture. Spores very large, and almost 

 gemmiform. Calyptra large, covering the capsule while immature, yellowish. Male flowers nidulant on the loaves, 

 small, often clustered. Capsule eight-angular. 



■2. Cladomnion sciuroides, Hook. ; dioicum, surculis vage ramosis, ramis subcompressis incurviusculis, 

 foliis erecto-patentibus subsecundis ovatis acuminatis plicato-striatis enerviis apice serratis, capsula erecta 

 oblonga sulcata brevipedicellata, operculo conico-subulato. — Leskea sciuroides, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 175. 



Hab. Middle Island : Nelson, Bidwitt. 



Also a native of Tasmania. — About 2 inches long. Seta scarcely twice the length of the capsule, which is 

 obscurely eight-angular. Operculum above half as long. Calyptra longer than the capsule. Inner peristome a 

 short membrane, with rudiments of narrow segments ; outer teeth pale. Spores small, greenish.— Leskea distant, 

 Mont. (Cent. 5. 14 bis), may be the same Moss. 



§2. Capsula Imvis ; folia nervosa. (Cyrtopus, Bridel.) 



3. Cladomnion setosum, Hedw. ; dioicum, surculis elongatis subsimplicibus, foliis confertis subse- 

 cundis e basi ovata subulato-setaceis solidinerviis serratis, capsula oblonga erecta brevipedicellata, operculo 

 rostrato. — Neckera setosa, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 8. 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands : Bay of Islands, Sinclair. Dusky Bay, Menzies, Li/all. 



Also found in Tasmania and South America. — Sureuli often 6 inches long or more. Leaves rigid and bristly 

 at the apex. Capsule scarcely rising above the leaves. Operculum shorter than the capsule. Calyptra yellowish- 

 brown, the length of the capsule. Peristome red.— In this and in the two preceding species, fruit of a former 

 year may be observed lower down the surculus, which is annually continued from the extremity, without lateral 

 branches. This peculiarity does not exist in genuine Leskea. 



Tribe XV. PixoTRiCHEiE. 

 Gen. XLYIII. METEORIUM, Bridel. 



Peristomium duplex: exterius, dentes 16, erecti; interim, cilia totidem alternantes, basi libera vel 

 membrana brevi connexa. Calyptra Eequalis, erecta, exannulata, brevipedicellata. Operculum rostraturn. 

 Florescentia dioica. — Caulis repens. Sureuli penduli, ramosi, ramis patentibus. 



Under this section of PilotricMm of Bridel we rank a few species remarkable for their slender pendulous 

 habit : whence the name, from //.ei-ewpos, pensilis. They seem to require separation as a group from PilotricMm 

 (named from the hairy calyptra), which has two-nerved leaves, and a rigid, erect, dendroid habit. 



1. Meteorium motte, Hedw.; surculo elongato debili pendulo flexuoso, ramis subsimplicibus, foliis 

 imbricatis subspathulato-ellipticis oblongis obtusis concavis integerrimis enerviis pericha3tialibus vaginan- 

 tibus duplo longioribus, capsula ovata brevipedicellata, operculo rostrato, calyptra pilosiuscula dnmdiata. ■ 

 Leskea mollis, Hedwig, Muse. Frond. 4. t. 40. 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands : Dusky Bay, Menzies. Stewart's Island and Port Nicholson, 

 Lyall. 



Found also in Australia, Tasmania, Brazil, Chiloe, Chili, Chonos Archipelago, and Juan Fernandez.— Sureuli 

 a foot long and more, very slender. Leaves narrower and subeordate at the base, concave above the margins, 

 inflexed and connivent at the apex. Inner peristome a membrane divided beyond the middle into sixteen carmate 

 processes, as in Leskea. Seta not 2 lines long. Calyptra pale and thin. Operculum as long as the symmetrical 

 capsule. — An ambiguous state of Hypnum cochlearifolium much resembles this, but has the capsule unequal and the 

 operculum short. 



