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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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A Tasmanian Moss.— Stems about f inch in height (J inch in some of Oolenso's specimens), slender, some- 

 what rigid. Leaves lurid-green, shrinking slightly when dry, and then widely separated. Seta 1 inch long in the 

 larger specimens (i inch in Colenso's specimens). Pericliceiial leaves forming a bulb, conspicuous. Capsule sub- 

 pynform, with a rostrate operculum nearly as long. Teeth with two rather distant, red, dorsal ridges, as in the last. 

 Calyplra subcorneal, shorter than in //. robusta.—H. obscura, Mont. (Cent. 5, 11 bis), from Chili, supposed to be a 

 small state of dentata, is different, if monoicous, as reported.— Plate XCIII. Fig. 6 .— 1, plant, natural size ; 

 2, portion of plant ; 3, capsule ; 4, 5, leaves : — all ■ 



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Erioptjs, Bridel.— Calyptra basi fimbriata, superne papillosa. Setafilamentoso-hirta. Peristomium exter- 

 num dentibus lamellato-trabeculatis ineurvis ; internum ciliolis instructum. Folia submarginata, serrala, basi 

 binervia, laxe areolata. 



Hookena cristata, Hedw. ; dioica, caule suberecto rigido-subramoso, foliis disticlie imbricatis sub- 

 heteromallis late obovatis acutiusculis submarginatis dentato-serratis basi binerviis siccitate crispato-undu- 

 latis mtermediis subrotundis apiculatis perichsetialibus late ovatis piliformi-acuminatis, seta breviuscula his- 

 pida superne pilis albidis longis cristata, capsula pyriformi subpendula, operculo rostrato, calyptra fimbriata 

 apice papillis subulatis scabra.— Leskea cristata, Hedw. Sp. Muse. t. 49. Chffitophora (Eriopus) cristatus, 

 Bridel, Bryol. Univ. v. 2. p. 339. 



Var. /3; foliis brevioribus subrotundis siccitate vix crispulis pallide fulvellis. 



Hab. Common throughout the Islands ; in dense forests, on trunks of trees, etc. in very damp spots. 

 Var. /3. Waikare, Colenso. 



Stems 2 to 4 inches long, robust and rigid. Leaves green, often pale, not crowded, shrinking, crisped and un- 

 dulated when dry, arrangement f ; margin with a few rows of narrower cellules, forming an obscure border. Seta 

 i to | inch long, pale, covered with white hairs forming a distinct crest at the top as large as the capsule. Calyptra 

 white, curiously covered and fringed with elongated papillae, short, mitriform. Teeth orange, with large, prominent, 

 contiguous, dorsal ridges, internally trabeculate with lamellar processes, much incurved. Inner peristome with so- 

 litary cilia. Vaginula oblong, narrower than the seta above. An annulus is present. 



Nat. Ord. CI. HEPATKLE, L, 



By William Mitten, Esq. 



Of the New Zealand Hepatica, about one-third are peculiar to the Islands included under that name, 

 thirteen only are found in Britain, most of which are cosmopolite, and the remainder are common to Tas- 

 mania, Fuegia, or' various other Antarctic lands. A few are found at the Cape of Good Hope, and the whole 

 number already known (about 190) exceeds that found in Britain by about forty species; and there can 

 be no doubt that many others will yet reward the diligent investigator, particularly in the less explored dis- 

 tricts. Of eighty species enumerated in the 'Flora Antarctica ' as natives of Lord Auckland's Group and 

 Campbell's Island, about thirty-five have not hitherto been found in New Zealand, but no doubt exist, 

 especially on the mountains of the Middle and Southern Islands; some few of these are also Fuegian species'. 

 ^ It is extremely to be regretted that several New Zealand species brought home by the Antarctic Ex- 

 pedition, and described by Drs. Taylor and Hooker, do not now exist in the Hookerian or any other Euro- 

 pean Herbarium. These were accidentally omitted to be returned, after examination, by that indefatigable 

 author, and probably now exist in his herbarium only, which, after his death, was purchased by the patriotic 

 founder of the Lowell Institute (II. S. Am.). The great ardour and precipitancy with which Dr. Taylor 



