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2. Meteorium cuspidiferum, Taylor ; surculo elongato ramoso pendulo flexili, ramis patentibus sim- 

 plicibus, foliis laxe imbricatis erecto-patentibus cordato-ovatis semiamplexicaulibus apiculatis integerrimis 

 subeoriaceis carinatis substriatis evanidinerviis minutissime areolatis basi auriculis denticulatis.-- -Kfeckera 

 cuspidifera, Tayl. MSS. 



Var. /3; foliis latioribus cordatis siccitate undulatis basi lateribus reflexis. — Pilotrichum cerinum 

 Wils. MSS. 



Hab, Northern and Middle Islands : Bay of Islands, Sinclair, J. D. II. Var. /?. Middle Island, Lyall. 



Also found in the East Indies, Tasmania, and Norfolk Island.— Six inches to 1 foot long or more. Dark 

 green or sometimes yellowish. Inflorescence dioicous. Fruit not known.— Allied to Neckera nigreseem and to 

 N. Africana, C. Miiller, which have leaves gradually tapering, and more acute. 



3. Meteorium flexicaule, Taylor; surculo elongato pendulo fiexuoso, ramis patentibus simplicibus, 

 foliis laxe imbricatis cordato-ovatis subspathulatis acuminulatis concavis estriatis integerrimis (basi tantum 

 subdenticulatis) nervo ultra-meclio. — Leskea flexicaulis, Taylor. 



Hab. Northern Island, Dr. Stanger. Hawke's Bay, Colenso. 



A Tasmanian Moss ; it resembles the preceding. — Leaves yellowish, more closely imbricated when dry, their 

 points only a little reflexed, smooth and convex at the back, not at all striated ; Colenso's specimens are narrower 

 below the middle and subspathulatc, those from Dr. Stanger ovate, with larger auricles at the base. Dioicous. 

 Fruit unknown. — Specimens gathered by Mr. Stephenson are more slender, and are probably in an early state of 

 growth. 



4. Meteorium pusillum, Hook. ill. et Wils.; surculo gracillimo debili breviusculo, foliis laxe imbri- 

 catis erecto-patentibus ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis margine subreflexis nervo brevissimo, peri- 

 chEetialibus erectis subconvolutis lanceolatis, capsula exscrta brevipedicellata ovali erecta sulcata, operculo 

 conico. (Tab. LXXXVIII. Tig. 1.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Wairarapa valley, Colenso. 



A very minute species, slender enough to elude ordinary sight. Scarcely an inch in length. Leaves suberect 

 when dry, dull green. Seta twice as long as the small, pale, octangular, oval capsule. Perichmtial leaves the 



length of the capsule. Operculum half as long. Annuhis 0. Dioicous? — Plate LXXXVIII. Kg. 1 : 1, plants, 



natural size; 2, portion of plant with capsule; 3, portion of peristome; 5, leaf: — all but fig. 1 magnified. 



5. Meteorium nitens, Hook. til. et Wils. ; caule repente, ramis densis brevibus erectiusculis, foliis 

 ovato-lanceolatis acutis minutissime denticulatis substriatis seminerviis. (Tab. LXXXVII. Fig. 7.) 



Hab. Northern Island, Sinclair. (Barren scrap only.) 



Shining yellowish-green. Brandies two to three lines long. Leaves crowded, erecto-patent, erect when dry ; 

 margin subreflexed ; areola? very narrow. — Probably an external shoot from a large patch, which may have the same 

 pendulous habit as the preceding.— Plate LXXXVII. Pig. 7 :— 1, plant, natural size; 2, 3, leaves, magnified. 



Gen. XLIX. CEYPILEA, Mohr, Bridel. 



Peristomium duplex : eccterius, dentes 16, angusti, erecti : interims, cilia totidem alterna, basi libera, 

 filiformia. Calyplra mitrseformis, conica, glabra. Capsula sequalis, perichsetio immersa, subsessilis annu- 

 lata. Operculum conicum. Florescentia monoica. — Caulis repens. Surculi suierecti, pendulive, subpin- 

 natim ramosi. Folia ovata, areolis punctiformibus, Integra. 



The small conical calyptra barely covering the operculum, and the immersed capsules, distinguish this genus 

 from the preceding. 



1. Cryphaea consimilis, Montague; surculo ramoso, ramis distantibus patentibus filiformibus, foliis 

 vol. ii. 2 d 



