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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



[Musct. 



Hypopterygium ciliatum, Bridel, Bryol. Univ. 



rostrate- — Pterigynandrum ciliatum, Hedw. Sp.Musc. t.Yl . 

 v. Z.p. 710. 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands : Bay of Islands, J. D. II. Auckland, Knight, Smclavr, Colenso. 



Wangaroa, Col. Bolton. 



Surculi 1 inch long, covered below with brown radicles. Leaves pale green, hoary with the long, numerous 

 ciliary processes that fringe the margin, intermixed with spinular bristles, as in Hypopterygium sehgerum. Seta 

 scarcely i inch long, thick, purplish. Capsule somewhat unequal, nearly erect, reddish-brown. Calyptra mflexed at 

 the base, brownish. Peristome large, nearly half as long as the capsule, yellowish-brown. Male plants more slender, 

 sparingly branched, with numerous axillary gemmiform reddish flowers. 



Gen. LXI. CYATHOPHOfiUM, P. Beam. 



Peristomium duplex, Ilypni. Calyptra mitoeformis, par™. Capsula squalls, annulata, brevissime 



peduncnlata, pedunculo vaginula tumida cyathiformi inserto. Operculum convexo-acummatum. Mores- 



eentia dioica : antlieridia paraphysibus clavatis suffulta.-Caulis repens. Surculi erect*, subswiplwes, fili- 



coidei. Folia tristie/m: lateralia verticalia, patentia, obliqua ; dorsalia sen tegmina minora, subrolnnda, 



(Name from K va0o?, a cup, fopew, I hear ; in allusion to the vaginula.) 



1. Cyathophorum pennatum, Lab.; dioicum, surculis erectis complanatis, foliis distichis pterygoideis 

 ovato-oblongis obliquis scrratis nervo brevi, tegminibus subrotundis apiculatis, seta brevissima curvula, 

 capsula ovali, operculo conico-acuminato.— Hookeria pennata, Hook. Muse. Bxot. t. 163. Cyathophorum 

 pennatum, Bridel, Bryol. Univ. v. 2. p. 722. 



Var. /S. minus ; foliis distantibus acutis. 



Var. j. apiculatum; surculo brevi, foliis ovato-subrotundis acummulatis argutius spinuloso-serratis. 



Hab. Very common throughout the Islands, Menzies, etc. Var. /3. Otara Forest, Colenso. Var. 7 . 

 Middle Island, Lyall. 



A native of Tasmania, and Lord Auckland's Mands.-StowH from 2 inches to a foot long or more, naked below. 

 Lateral leaves large, 2-3 lines long, dark green; nerve ceasing below the middle, or often very short and forked. 

 Fructification produced in the upper part of the frond in the axils of the lateral leaves. Capsule large, pale brown, 

 on a thick curved pedicel not exceeding its own length. Operculum half as long as the capsule. Calyptm very 

 small, covering the upper portion of the operculum, cellular, brown. Inner peristome with cdia two or three 

 together. Spores small. PericMtial leaves, small, attenuated. Vaginula large, conspicuous.— Var. has the sur- 

 plus with fruit not 2 inches long. This may prove to be a different species, when better specimens are obtained. 



Tribe XXII. Bacopilace;e. 



Gen. LXII. RACOPILUM, P. 



Peristomium duplex, Ilypni. Calyptra conico-mitraeformis, basi inflexa pilosa, interdum dimidiata, 

 fere glabra. Capsula insequalis, curvata, cernua, sulcata, pachydermia, annulata. Operculum rostratum.— 

 Caulis repens, vage subpinnatim ramosus. Polia plerumque dimorpha : lateralia subdisticha, patula ; inter- 

 media minora, diversiformia ; omnia excurrentinervia, pilifera, minute opaceque areolata, subrotunda, snb- 

 papillosa. 



In this singular group the leaves are arranged in a manner quite different from Ilypopterygiaeem, with which 

 Bridel has united it. The disposition of the leaves is f, or perhaps occasionally f , the small intermediate leaves 

 being only on the upper side of the rachis. 



