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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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seta gracili lsevi, capsula oblonga nutaute, operculo longirostri. — Bridel, Bryol. Univ. v. 2. p. 621. 

 Schwagr. Suppl. t. 93. 



Hab. Throughout the Islands, Colenso, Li/all, etc. ; common on trunks of trees, J. D. H. 



A native of Tasmania, Australia, the Antarctic Islands, Isle of Bourbon, South America, and South Africa. 



Smaller than H. Sandwicliense j branches more slender and delicate; leaves narrower and more attenuated, shorter 

 than in H. mundulum, and less circinate. Operculum with a long, slender beak, exceeding the length of the cap- 

 sule. — H. callidum, Mont. (Cent. 5, 7), from Chili, seems to be the same species, according to the description, while 

 his H. leptorhynchum appears to correspond with our H. amcenum (Fl. Antarct. pt. 1). Schwasgrichen's figure of H. 

 leptorlvyiiclimn tolerably well represents our Moss so called. 



28. Hypmirn cerviculatum, Hook. fil. et Wils. ; dioicum, canle repente subpinnatim ramoso, foliis 

 falcato-secundis lanceolatis acuminatis apice serrulatis attenuatis margine vix reflexis enerviis perichEetiali- 

 bus ovato-lanceolatis apiculatis serratis erectis, seta breviore crassa scabriuscula, capsula oblonga horizontali 

 basi strumulosa exannulata, operculo longirostri. — Hypnum leptorhynchum, var. (3, Hook. fil. et Wils. in Fl. 

 Antarct.pt. 1. (Tab. XCI. Kg. 2.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Port Nicholson, Sinclair. Woods, Tehawera, Colenso. 



Found also in Lord Auckland's Islands and Tasmania. — Essentially different from the preceding in the inflores- 

 cence and roughish seta. Leaves wider, and more like those of IT", amwnum. Seta about i inch long. — H. scorpiu- 

 rum, Mont. (Cent. 5, 6), appears to be closely allied, according to the description.— Plate XCI. Fig. 2 :— 1, plant, 

 '■size; 2, capsule and operculum ; 3, capsule with operculum removed; 4, calyptra; 5, 6, leaves : — all but fig. 



29. Hypnum tenuirostre, Hook. ; monoicum, caule repente divisionibus subpinnatim, ramoso, ramis 

 erectis elongatis, foliis falcato-secundis confertis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis concavis subintegerrimis ener- 

 viis, capsula ovato-oblonga cernua, operculo longirostri. — Hook. Muse. Exot, t. 111. 



Hab. Middle Island : Bligh's Sound, Chalky Bay, and Otago, By all. 



A Tasmanian plant, and a larger species than H. cerviculatum, with branches |- inch long or more. Foliage 

 usually dark green, often lurid. Seta as long as the branches. 



30. Hypnum crassiusculum, Bridel; monoicum, caule repente vage ramoso, ramulis brevibus incurvatis, 

 foliis laxe imbricatis subsecundis lanceolatis acuminatis concavis margine reflexiusculis integerrimis, capsula 

 ovato-oblonga subcernua, operculo longirostri. — Bridel, Mant. Muse. Schwcegr. Suppl. t. 91. Isothecium 

 crassiusculum, Bridel, Bryol. Univ. v. 2. p. 384. Leskea caespitosa, Hedw. Spec. Muse. t. 49 ? (mm Swartz, 

 Fl. Ind. Occid.,fide Swartz in Herb. Hoo7c.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Auckland, Sinclair. 



Also found in the West Indies, North and South America, and Tristan d'Acunha. The Bridelian species is said 

 to be dioicous, but the Moss before us, which abounds near New Orleans, etc., and which we cannot refer so confidently 

 to any other described species as to this, is certainly monoicous. Perhaps Leskea Duisahoana, Mont. (Cent. 5, 16), , 

 from Mauritius, may be the same as ours, according to the description; compare also L. acidodon, Mont. (Cent. 5, 

 15), from the Isle of Bourbon. 



31. Hypnum pubescens, Hook. fil. et Wils. ; dioicum, caule laxe subpinnato, ramis remotiusculis, foliis 

 patentibus laxe imbricatis vix secundis deltoideo-ovatis acuminatis serrulatis subenerviis, capsula cernua 

 ovata brevi, operculo conico-acuminato subrostellato, capsula sequali, calyptra pilosiuscula. (Tab. XCI. 

 Fig. 3.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Auckland, Sinclair (Herb. Gourlie). 



Closely allied to H. molluscum, and perhaps only a variety. — Stems more loosely and irregularly pinnate. Leaves 



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