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I). Leaves obtuse. 



6. 0. bicolor, Hoensch. Leaves, lower black, upper 

 glossy green, subulato-lanceolate, obtuse, concave at 

 the apex, without hair points. Nerve broad. Hook. 

 Handbook PI. N.Z. 



13. TEEMATODON, A. and L. C. Eichabds. 



So named in allusion to the rough and unequally divided 

 teeth of the peristome. Key, No. 38. With narrow leaves, 

 and the habit of Dicranum 



1. T. flexipes, Mitten. Stems very short. Leaves 

 patent, lanceolate-subulate, entire ; nerve broad. 

 Pruitstalk short, flexuose. Capsule sub-erect, equi-long 

 with neck, teeth red, cleft ; lid with curved beak. 

 On the ground, near Cumming's Head, Western 

 Mountains. 



" The nerve occupies the whole of the upper three-fourths 

 of the leaf, the seta flexuose, and the peristome with 

 distinctly cleft teeth." — Mitten. 



14. DESMATODON, Bbidel. 



Handed tooth ; the peristome teeth are sometimes joined 

 by one or two bars. When highly developed, scarcely 

 distinguishable from Tortula. Key, Nos. 15 and 29. 



1. D. neruosus, Beuch and Schimpeb. Stems Jin. high. 

 Leaves yellow-green, spreading, ovate-oblong, apiculate, 

 concave, margin rcflexed, nerve thickened upwards, 

 excurrent. Pruitstalk j^-Jin. long. Capsule ovoid, 

 erect, teeth sometimes absent ; lid hardly beaked. 

 Wils. Bry. Brit. On dry earth, banks, etc. 



15. TOETULA, Scheebee. 



Twisted. The peristome teeth are twisted to the left. 

 Key, No. 33.^TJbiquitous. 



A. Nerve of the leaf produced into a white hair like point. 



1. T. Muelleri, Be. and Schimp. Stems elongated, 

 covered with root fibres. Leaves crowded, erecto- 

 patent, straight, imbricate when dry, oblong-oval, 

 obtuse, concave ; margin reflexed ; nerve purple red, 

 excurrent into a roughish hair point. Pruitstalk long, 

 purplish. Capsule cylindric, curved. Hook. Hand- 

 book N.Z. PI. T. antarctica, Hampe ; SyntricMa 

 princeps, De Notaris ; T. cuspidata and T. rubella 

 referred by Mitten to this common species. Mt. 

 Eumney, generally diffused. 



