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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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closely complanate, not altered by drying; areolae punctate. Seta i inch long, red. Calyptra white, of thick and 

 firm texture. Operculum as long as the capsule, with a curved beak.— Plate XCI. Fig. 5 •— 1, plant, natural size; 

 2, capsule with calyptra ; 3, capsule with calyptra removed ; 4, 5, leaves :— all but Jig. 1 magnified. 



2. Omalia oblongifolia, Hook. fil. et Wils.; surculo bipinnatim ramoso, ramis attenuatis, foliis 

 distiche imbricatis minus compressis subsecunolis spathulato-oblongis acutiusculis siccitate undulatis nervo 

 crasso ultramedio, capsula ovato-subrotunda nutante.— Hookeria punctata, var. /3, Hook. fil. et Wils. in 

 Land. J own. Bot. 1844. (Tab. XCI. Kg. 6.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Bay of Islands; growing with the preceding, /. I). II. Auckland, Knight. 



Of deeper green colour than 0. pulchella ; leaves longer and undulated when dry, less evidently serrulate at the 

 apex, or entire; branches more numerous, and attenuated.— Plate XCI. Pig. 6 :— 1, plant, natural size; 2, cap- 

 sule ; 3, capsule with operculum removed ; 4, 5, 6, leaves :— all but fig. 1 magnified. 



8. Om&U falcifolia, Hook. fil. et Wils.; dioica, surculo vage subpinnatim ramoso, ramis complanatis 

 subsimplicibus, foliis distiche imbricatis oblongo-acinaciformibus obtusis enerviis integerrimis, seta tern, 

 capsula elliptico-oblonga nutante, operculo conico.— Hypnum falcifolium, Hook. fil. et Wils. in Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. 1844. (Tab. XCII. Kg. 1.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Bay of Islands, Colenso. Port Nicholson, Lyall. Auckland, Sinclair. 



Branches about | inch long, few. Leaves very glossy, bright green, crowded, oblong, acinaciform at the apex. 

 Seta above \ inch long. Pericytial leaves erect, long, slender. Outer peristome yellow. Male flowers not observed. 

 Plate XCII. Pig. ]. : __1 5 p i antj m tural size; 2, moist, and 3, dry capsule; 4, operculum; 5, portion of stem and 

 leaves; 6, leaf: — all but fig. 1 magnified. 



4. Omalia auriculata, Hook. fil. et Wils. ; dioica, surculo repente divisionibus bipinnatis dilatatis, ra- 

 mulis obtusis incrassatis, foliis subsecundis concavis obovato-subrotundis obtusiusculis basi auriculatis me- 

 diotenus nervatis, nervo valido bifnrco. (Tab. XCII. Kg. 4.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Auckland, Knight. (Male plant.) 



Nearly allied to 0. pulchella, more robust; leaves yellowish, larger, wider, convex and glossy at the back.— 

 Plate XCII. Pig. 4 :— 1, plant, natural size; 2, portion of stem and leaves ; 3, leaf :— both magnified. 



Tribe XXI. Ehizogoniace^. 

 Gen. LVI. BHIZOGONIUM, Bridel. 



Peristomium Hypni. Calyptra subulata, dimidiata. Capsula inclinata, longipcdunculata. Operculum 

 plerumque rostratum.— Surculi subsimplices, erecti, subcompressi, caspitosi. Kuctus basilaris. Korescen- 

 tia dioica. Folia rigida, duplici serie spinuloso-serrata. 



The double row of spinous teeth on the margin of the leaf is analogous to that of Mnium, one species of which 

 genus {Hypnum acanthoneuron, Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 258 b, Bryum Menziesii, Hook. Bot. Miscell. t. 19) C. Miiller 

 has added to this, in opposition to the opinion of Schimper, who on his part seems to have erred in uniting II 

 spininervium to Bhizogonium. Bhizopelma, C. Miiller, is founded on Leskea Novce-Hottandics, of which he had seen 

 only barren specimens. 



1. Bhizogonium distichum, Brid.; dioicum, foliis distichis ovato-oblongis obtusiusculis apice dentatis 

 nervo crasso sub apicem evanido, capsula oblonga horizontali, operculo conico-rostellato.— Bridel, Bryol. 

 Univ. Hypnum distichum, Schwagr. Suppl. t. 87. 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands : shores of Waikare Lake, Colenso. Bligh's Sound, Auckland 

 Chalky Bay, Ship Cove, and Jackson's Bay, Lyall, Knight, Sinclair, etc. 



