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2. B. arcuata, Mitten. Stems f-lia. long. Leaves 



linear, slightly glossy. Fruitstalk 1\ lines long, 

 curved. Capsule drooping, oval ; after the lid has 

 fallen away the capsule assumes a cup form. Mitten 

 Aus. Cat., Mitt. Muse. Austro-Americana. 



3. B. tenui folia, Hook/. anbWils. Dicranum. Stems Hb. 



high. Leaves brownish, black below ; secund, falcate, 

 narrow elliptic below, gradually long and slender, 

 capillary-subulate, margin incurved, nerve indistinct, 

 perichsetial sub-orbicular, convolute, nerve long 

 excurrent. Capsule erect on thick short fruitstalk, 

 oval, turbinate ; lid subulate. Mitt. Sth. Amer. Mus. 

 Eock behind Cumming's Head, Western Mtns. 



12. CAMPYLOPTTS, Bridel. 

 Prom KaixirvXos, bent, and ™vs, a foot, alluding to the bent 

 fruitstalk. Key, No. 37. On logs, and in swamps. 



A. Leaves with white reflexed hair points. 



1. C. introflexus, Hedwg. Leaves, base "broad, concave, 



with a pellucid margin, suddenly contracted into a 

 white toothed hair point. Capsule obovate, unequal ; 

 lid conical. Abundant on logs, and on the ground. 



B. Leaves with straight hair points. 



2. 0. torquatus, Mitten. Leaves of lax and spongy 



texture, base ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a long 

 subulate, setaceous, white spinulose point. Pruit- 

 stalk twisted. Capsule pyriform. Key, No. 37. On 

 the slopes of Mt. Wellington. 



3. C. clauatus, Brown. Stems dichotomously branched ; 



leaves golden yellow, lanceolate, suddenly acuminate 

 into white, straight, short hair points. 



4. G. insititius, Hook. /. and Wils. Leaves with a 



short pellucid base, erect, open, slightly recurved, 

 when dry incurved, lanceolate, subulate, canaliculate, 

 hair-pointed. Capsule nearly elliptic, equal, scarcely 

 strumose. Calyptra, deeply fimbriated. About Brown's 

 River, common. 



C. Leaves subulata-setaceous. 



•5. C. capillatus, Hook. /. and Wils. Stems l-2in. or 

 more. Leaves bright green, glossy, ovate-lanceolate at 

 the base, then subulate-setaceous, areolae at the base, 

 rectangular and pellucid. Capsule symmetrical ; 

 calyptra shortly fimbriated. Brown's River, with the 

 preceding species. 



