Musci.Ji 



FLORA OP NEW ZEALAND. 



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never red. Leaves full green, not glossy, twice as large as in the last, PericJicetial leaves entire. Seta \ inch long. 

 Teeth pale yellow, with two distant dorsal ridges. Cilia none; processes of inner peristome narrow, not perforated.— 

 MniadelpMs auratus, C. Miiller, from Trinidad, is allied, but has leaves glossy, with a longer apiculus and larger 

 areolae. — Plate XCIII. Fig. 2: — 1, plant, natural size; 2, portion of stem and capsule, etc.; 3, capsule; 4, 

 leaf: — all magnified, 



5. Hookeria pidehella, Hook. fil. et Wils.; dioica, ramis subflaccidis compressiusculis, foliis confertis 

 disticlie imbricatis siccitate margine undulatis obovatis obtusis inucronulatis marginatis integerrimis semi- 

 nerviis perichsetialibus obtusis, capsula inclinata apophysata, operculo rostrate, calyptra fimbriata apice 

 glabra.— if. Antaret. ft. 1. I. 62./. 1. 



Var. /3; ramis crassioribus, capsula cernua. 



Hab. Northern Island : Tararua, Colenso. Var. /3. Middle Island : Biigh's Sound, Lyall. 



A Lord Auckland Island plant.— Larger than the preceding. Leaves yellowish, more crowded, flaccid, more 

 obtuse, with a very short obscure mucro; areolae larger. Perichmtial leaves blunt, reflexed at the apex. Seta nearly -| 

 inch long. Male flower on a short pedicel, roundish.—//, mniifolia, Hornsch., from South Africa (Linncea, xv. 141), 

 seems to be nearly allied, but, according to Dr. Montague, is different. LI. seminervis, Mont. (Cent. v. 5. p. 11), 

 from Java, has leaves more oblong and spathulate, with larger areolae and a longer nerve. IT. pulcMla, Griffith, from 

 the East Indies, agrees in the monoicous inflorescence, but has leaves as in LI. crispula, with the small capsule of 

 II. adnata. 



6. Hookeria amhlyophylla, Hook. fil. et Wils.; dioica, ramis tumidiusculis compressis, foliis confertis 

 distiche imbricatis erecto-patentibus siccitate appressis obovatis obtusissimis marginatis integerrimis evani- 

 dinerviis, perichastialibus obtusis, calyptra fimbriata. (Tab. XCIII. Fig. 3.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Port Nicholson, Sinclair ; a scrap only, with Bicranum Billardieri. Auck- 

 land, Knight. 



A Tasmanian Moss, like the last in size and general aspect. — Leaves yellowish-green, lurid when old, rounded 

 and blunt at the apex without any mucro, the margin all round the apex curiously reflexed like the brim of a hat 

 m this specimen, but some of the Tasmanian specimens do not show this character. Male flowers oblong-urceolate, 

 the perigonial scales blunt and recurved at the apex.— Plate XCIII. Fig. S :— 1, plant, natural size; 2, portion 

 of stem, leaves, seta, and calyptra; 3, leaf: — all magnified. 



7. Hookeria adnata, Hook. fil. et Wils. ; monoica, ramis compressis, foliis distiche imbricatis siccitate 

 margine undulatis elliptico-oblongis subspathulatis acnminulatis membranaceis integerrimis tenuissime 

 marginatis evanidinerviis, seta gracillima, capsula minute ovata cernua, operculo rostrato, calyptra fim- 

 briata subpilosa. (Tab. XCIII. Fig. 4.) 



Hab. Northern Island : Bay of Islands, on leaves of trees, and especially on fronds of Trichomanes 

 elongatum, J. D. H., Cunningham,, Colenso, Sinclair. 



A delicate and beautiful species, of a pale yellow colour.— Stem reddish. Leaves larger and more filmy than in 

 any of the preceding, the margin extremely narrow. Seta A inch long, very slender, red. Perichtztial leaves ovate, 

 acuminulate. Capsule very small. Operculum of the same length as the capsule. Teeth with the dorsal ridges in 



contact as in Kypnum, leaving only a sutural line ("linea media" of Bridel, etc.). Inner peristome without cilia, 



— Plate XCIII. Fig. 4: — 1, plant, natural size; 2, portion of stem, leaves, seta, capsule, and calvptra; 3, cap- 

 sule; 4, leaf: — all magnified, 



** Foliis immarginatis. 



8. Hookeria microcarpa, Hedw. ; dioica, caule vage ramoso, ramis complanatis, foliis distiche imbri- 

 catis obovatis obtusis integerrimis immarginatis evanidinerviis medio laxe pellucido-areolatis pericliEetialibus 



