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densely leaved. Leaves when dry crispate-appressed, not 

 twisted ; when wet erecto-patent, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 the lower margins more or less revolute, quite entire ; nerve 

 lutescent, vanishing below the apex ; the basal cells elongate, 

 very incrassate, and their cavities very narrow, those above 

 the middle of the leaf rounded, all pellucid and quite 

 smooth. Perichaetial bracts larger, erect, acuminate. Seta 

 erect, flexuous, 5—7 mm. high, pale yellow- red, quite smooth ; 

 capsule erect, oval, plicate when empty, small mouth, dull 

 brown ; peristome simple, the teeth arising below the orifice 

 short, papillose ; operculum ? calyptra yellow, f uscous at apex, 

 glabrous, plicate. 



Hab. — On wood, South Eoad "Forest, Circular Head, 1892, 

 W.A.W., Nos. 846, 1040, 1041, and on Mount Wellington, 

 No. 121 (1. lutescens). 



" Differs from the preceding species in the leaves being 

 erect when dry, not spirally twisted ; the less incrassate- 

 superior cells ; and the shorter seta." 



24. Tayloria ol/tusissima, Broth., n. sp. 



Dioicous ; in tall, dense tufts, interwoven with fuscous- 

 purple tomentum, bright green, when young somewhat 

 shining. Stem 9 cm. high, erect, loosely leaved, simple. 

 Leaves roughly patulous, very concave, cucullate at apex, 

 from a shortly spathulate base broadly ovate, subround- 

 obtuse, 3 — 5 mm. long and 2'5 mm. wide ; margins erect, 

 minutely and obtusely serrulate above ; nerve thin, lutescent, 

 vanishing far below the apex; cells soft, lax, shortly and 

 broadly oblong, the apical subrotund-hexagonal, the basal 

 elongate, rectangular. Perichaetial bracts smaller, the 

 margins of the inmost distinctly serrulate ; nerve shorter ; 

 numerous archegonia. The rest unknown. 



Hab.— -Palls Track, Mount Wellington, March, 1891, 

 W.A.W., No. 1797. 



" A very fine and most distinct species, readily distinguished 

 at a glance from T. callophylla (C. Mull.) by the very obtuse 

 leaves." 



25, Calyptothecium buftoni, Broth. Geh., n. sp. 



Dioicous ; fuscescent-green, shining. Stem creeping ; 

 branches to 10 cm. long, flexuous, turgidly leaved, terete, 

 obtuse, crowded with patent, terete, obtuse branchlets scarcely 

 longer than 1 cm., and turgidly leaved. Leaves when dry 

 loosely imbricate, neither rugulose nor plicate, when wet 

 patent, cymbiform, concave, oblong-oval, abruptly and 

 shortly acuminate, margins erect, quite entire ; nerveless ; 

 cells elongate, very narrow, chlorophyllose, the basal aureate. 



