1094 



lineari-oblonga, apophysata, ex basi erecta apice curvata ; operculo 

 inclinato, longius rostrato. 



Norfolk Island, Allan Cunningham. I had received the same from 

 Mr. Menzies from New Zealand, and named it after him, in 1814. 



Tufts wide, pale yellowish-olive above, darker below. Stems \^ 

 inch high, crowded, parallel, erect, branching principally near the base 

 and then very sparingly. The leaves disposed to be heteromallous, 

 but never circinate ; the fruit scarcely exceeds the stems in height ; 

 in front of the capsule and at the base there is a projecting struma. 

 The peristome is dark brown, the teeth strongly barred, unequally di- 

 vided, the larger segment of one tooth always adjacent to the larger 

 segment of the adjoining, which is not unusual in the genus. The 

 calyptra is dimidiate, from a narrow base swelling considerably and 

 then becoming subulate. 



The figure of Dicranum fasciatum in Hedwig's Species, t. 28, is not 

 unlike the present, differing, however, if we may judge from the de- 

 scription and plate, by the creeping stems, the nerveless leaves, whose 

 summits are wider and shorter, the pedicels for the most part gemi- 

 nate and scarcely exserted, and the want of any struma to the capsule. 



Bryum leptothecium, Tayl. Caule laxe csespitoso, erecto, subra- 

 moso : foliis obovatis oblique cuspidatis, marginatis, dentatis, in ro- 

 sulam congestis : capsula curvata, lineari-oblonga ; operculo conico, 

 acuminulato. 



Norfolk Island, Allan Cunningham. I had received this species 

 from Mr. Menzies in 1814, collected in the same place. 



Stems nearly I inch high, sending up from near the base of the pe- 

 richgetium a pair of annotinous shoots. The lower part of the stem is 

 nearly naked, at the top and nearly at one point the leaves are clus- 

 tered, and when moistened recurved and stellate ; they are concave, 

 carinate, somewhat oblique, with a sufficiently obvious margination ; 

 when dry each leaf is somewhat twisted in itself. The top of the pe- 

 dicel and capsule both tend to form one curve ; the capsule is usually 

 remarkably slender. The inner peristome is split down for only about 

 one fourth of its length, and has two filiform processes between each 

 pair of perforated laciniae. 



In Bryum Billardierii, Schwceg., the leaves are immarginate and the 

 capsule pendulous and oblong. From the Swan River Bryum cam- 

 pylothecium, Tayl. MS., the present is distinct, by the want of long 

 ex current nerves to the leaves, and the slender capsules, which gra- 

 dually increase in width towards the top. 



