114 FLORA OE NEW ZEALAND. [Musci, 



more distant and wide-spreading, more evidently serrulate, with longer points, obscurely striated when dry, membra- 

 nous ; areola? wider, rhomboid; capsule shorter and smaller; operculum longer. Seta -| inch long. — Plate XCI. 

 Fig. 3 :— 1, plant, natural size; 2, capsule; 3, calyptra; 4, portion of stem and leaves; 5, apex of leaf:— all but 

 fig. 1 magnified. 



§ 7. Foliis distiche imbricatis vel compressis, piliferis, enerviis. 



32. Hypnum crinitum, Hook. ill. et Wils. ; dioicum, caule procumbente elongato inordinate pinna- 

 timque ramoso, ramis remotis patentibus planiusculis subpinnatis acutis, foliis subcompressis erecto-patenti- 

 bus concavis e basi oblongo-ovata obtusa longe piliferis subserrulatis enerviis, seta elongata lsevi, capsula 

 ovata cernua, operculo conico.— II. filiferum, Taylor, MSS. II. extenuaturn ? Bridel, Bryol. Univ. v. 2. 

 p. 484. (Tab. XCI. Kg. 4.) 



Hab. Northern Island, Oldfield, Colenso. Auckland, Knight. 



Found in Tasmania and Australia.— Stems 2 to 5 inches long, or more ; branches | inch. Leaves pale, shining 

 green, the piliform apex as long as the rest of the leaf. Seta 1 to 2 inches long. — II. tanytriclium, Mont. (Cent. 5, 4), 

 from Java, may be the same, but the leaves are described as obovate, which is at variance with our Moss. Bridel' s 

 species is described from barren specimens gathered in New Holland. — Plate XCI. Fig. 4 : — 1, plant, natural size; 

 2, capsule ; 3, capsule with operculum removed ; 4,5, leaves ; 6, apex of leaf : — all but fig. 1 magnified. 



33. Hypnum poUtum, Hook. fil. et Wils. ; dioicum, vage ramosum, ramis elongatis procumbentibus 

 compressis, foliis distiche imbricatis lateralibus patentibus ceeteris appressis omnibus oblongis compresso- 

 carinatis subpiliferis integerrirnis enerviis, seta longiuscula lsevi, capsula oblonga horizontali, operculo conico- 

 rostellato. — Hook. fil. et Wils. in Lond. Journ. Bot., et Fl. Antarct. t. 154. f. 2. Phyllogonium calli- 

 chroum, Mont. Cent. 5. 2 {non Bridel, Bryol. Univ.pt. %. p. 673). 



Hab. Northern Island, Colenso. (A few scraps only of the male plant.) 



A native of Tasmania, Chili, Cape Horn and Kerguelen's Land. — Tasmanian specimens in a perfect state have 

 branches an inch long.— Leaves very glossy, bright green, crowded and much compressed, so as to appear distichous, 

 but they are not so in their insertion. Seta 1 inch long. Operculum above half the length of the capsule. Calyptra 

 white, coriaceous, dimidiate, smooth. 



Tribe XX. Omaliace^e. 



Gen. LY. OMALIA, Bridel. 



Peristomium duplex, ut in Hypno. Capsula ovata, cernua, longipedunculata, annulata. Operculum 

 rostratum. Calyptra dimidiata. — Caulis repens, stolonifer. Surculi ascendentes, pinnaiim vel irregulariter 

 ramosi. Folia octofariam inserta, distiche imlricata, complanata, lateralia obliqua asymmetrica, iasi uno 

 latere infiexa caterum plana, verticalia, reticulatione minuta, nervo irevi vel obsolelo. Flores monoid vel 

 dioiei. 



In habit approaching very near to Pterygopliyllum, Bridel, but distinguished by the calyptra, which is truly di- 

 midiate. 



1. Omalia pulchella, Hook. fil. et Wils. ; dioica, surculo pinnatim ramoso rigido, ramis compressis sub- 

 ramulosis, foliis distiche imbricatis complanatis confertis obovato-subrotundis acutiusculis sermlatis seminer- 

 viis pericriEetialibus squarrosis apice lingulatis, seta laevi apice arcuata, capsula ovato-subrotunda nutante, 

 operculo rostrato. — Hookeria punctata, Hook. fil. et Wils. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 1844. (Tab, XCI. Fig. 5.) 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands : Bay of Islands ; on smooth trunks, common, I. B. II. Milford 

 Sound and Port Nicholson, Lyall. Auckland, Knight. 



A Norfolk Island Moss.— Surculi an inch long, often bipinnate. Leaves light green, not glossy, crowded and 



