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9. D. pungens, Hook. /. and Wils. Stem frequently 

 6in. high. Leaves secund, open, linear-lanceolate, 

 convolute, apex carinate, serrulate, slender nerve. D. 

 Nov. Hollandice, Hornsch. Among rocks and running 

 water. 



10. D. setosum, Hook, f . and Wils. Stems brittle, l-4in. 



long, yellow, glossy. Leaves -Jin long, fragile, very 

 long lanceolate and setaceous, serrulate, nerve broad, 

 excurrent in long seta?. Perichsetial leaves short, 

 Capsule sub-erect; lid with long beak. Calyptra pale 

 brown, red at apex. Hook. Handbook, M.N.Z. 

 Springs, Mount Wellington. 



11. D. Menziesii, Tayloe. Stems covered with matted 



whitish fibrils. Leaves secund, straight when dry, 

 subulate-lanceolate and serrulate at the base, very 

 long setaceous point, nerve solid ; perichtffiial shorter. 

 Fruitstalk hardly longer than the leaves. Substrumose 

 capsule with long beak. D. bracliypelma, C. Mucll. 

 Var. B. rigidum, dark green, more robust. Dense 

 forests, River Acheron. 



C. Leaves spinulose, serrate. 



12. D. dicarpon, Hoensch. Stems l-2in. high, covered 



with matted fibrils. Leaves squarrose, linear-cuspidate, 

 striate, margin and back spinulose-serrate, nerve 

 solid. Pruitstalks two or more together, sheathed by 

 long perichastial leaves. Lid with long beak. D. 

 leucolomoid.es, C. Muell. Var. B. spinosum, a larger 

 variety, with numerous longer setse. In dense woods, 

 New Norfolk. 



13. D. robustum, Hook /. and Wils. Stems 3-5in. long, 

 robust. Leaves sub-secund, long subulate-lanceolate, 

 into almost capillary points, spinulose-serrate above 

 nerve excurrent. Capsule cylindrical, inclined, sub- 

 strumose ; lid with long beak. Cheshunt. 



11. BLINDIA, Bbuch and Schimpee. 

 Named in honour of Blind, of Munster. Key, No. 27. On 

 moist Alpine rocks. 



1. B. acuta, Be. and Sch. Stems tufted, |-3in. high, 

 higb. Leaves sub-secund, rigid, glossy, oblong from 

 a concave base, then linear lanceolate, nerve 

 excurrent and thick. Perichaatial leaves sheathing 

 below, open above. Capsule erect, globose, pyriform 

 on short fruitstalk. Weissa acuta, Hedwg. Key, No. 

 27. Var. B, curviseta. Capsule nearly round, seta 

 arcuate, thick. On stones, rivulet near Cumming's 

 Head. 



