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4>. Z. minutus, C. Muell. and Hampe. Densely tufty, 

 short, yellowish, tender very short, densely-leafed 

 shoots ; stem leaves densely imbricate when moist ; 

 when dry strict, oblong lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, 

 entire, convex, nerve strong yellow, excurrent ; peri- 

 chsetial narrow. Yellow tender fruitstalk. Capsule 

 erect, oval-pyriform, and striate. Lid conical-oblique, 

 acuminate, external teeth, 16 gemminate, very short, 

 closely joined. Internal, eight cilia in very tender 

 reticulate membrane. Similar to Codonoblepharun 

 Menziesii, but distinguished by excurrent nerve and 

 different peristome. 



B. Leaves dentate. 



5. Z. cyathicarpus, Montague. Leaves pale green, 

 spreading, sub-recurved, crisped when dry, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, keeled, remotely denticulate ; peri- 

 chsetial overtopping the capsule. Fruitstalk very 

 sharp ; capsule cup form, gymnostomous, striate ; lid 

 convex, oblique-beaked. Key, No. 14. Var. Leaves 

 with pellucid nerve. On the ground, Dromedary, 

 New Norfolk. 



30. CODONOBLEPHABUM, C. T. Schwetegeichen. 

 So named in allusion to the inner peristome conniving and 



forming a campanulate cone. Key, No. 47. On bark of 



trees. 



1. C. Menziesii, ScHWiEGE. Stems tufted, densely fasti- 

 giately branched, fin. high. Leaves crowded, sub- 

 erect, yellow brown when old, Ungulate, apiculate, 

 keeled, nerve nearly continuous, strong, reddish, 

 vanishing. Fruitstalk j^in. long, slender. Capsule 

 pyriform, pale, strongly grooved, contracted below the 

 mouth ; peristome double, inner 16 cilia conniving 

 and forming a campanulate cone ; lid convex, obliquely 

 beaked. Z. Drummondi, Taylor ; Z. Menziesii, Mitten. 

 Fl. Tasm. and Hook. Handbook N.Z. Fl. On the 

 bark of trees, on the ground near the sea. 



31. LEPTOSTOMITM, Beown. 

 Slender mouth. In damp woods in creyices of rocks. Key, 

 No. 21. 



1. L inclinans, Beown. Leaves erect, open, loosely 

 imbricate when dry, ovate oblong, obtuse, with a 

 flexuous long hair point toothed at the tip ; margin 

 recurved ; nerve stout, pale. Fruitstalk slender ; 

 capsule inclined obovoid-clavate, lid conico-hemi- 

 spheric. Gymnostomum inclinans. Hook. Muse. 

 Exot. Key, No. 21. On moist rocks, top of Grass 

 . Tree Hill. 



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