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2. L gracile, Brown. 2-3in. high, closely imbricate 



when dry, leaves with straight hair point, toothed at 

 the tip; lid hemispherical. Hook. Handbook. Mt. 

 Wellington. 



3. L Menziesii, Hook. Tufty. Intermixed with radicles 



below. Leaves open, elliptic-oblong, apices acuminate, 

 nerve excurrent in long flexuous hair, margin sub- 

 serrulate, perichsetial narrow, subulate, hair rather 

 rough. Fruitstalk rather short, capsule inclined, 

 cylindrical curved; lid conic, oblique, acuminate. 

 Mitten's Sth. Amcr. Mosses, p. 274. Mt. Wellington. 



4. L. macrocarpum, Brown. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 



slightly obovate, concave, margin revolute, terminated 

 by a branched hair. Capsule erect, ovate-oblong, 

 small mouth. Lid conic-obtuse. Bryum Macro- 

 carpum. Mt. Wellington. 



32. LEPTOTHECA, SoHwaicmiciasH. 

 Slender capsule, the same as Aulocomnion in Hook. Hand- 

 book to N.Z. Fl., named in allusion to the plaited capsule. 

 Key No. 50. 



1. L Gaudichaudii, Schw^gr. Stems erect, slightly 

 branched ; leaves lax, erecto-patent, oblong, cuspidate 

 by the excurrent nerve, strongly toothed ; capsule 

 erect, narrow, cylindrical. On moist rocks, Mt. 

 Wellington. 



33. MNIOPSIS, Mitten. 



Acrocarpous. Areolation hexagonal. Outer peristome, 16 

 teeth ; inner, alternating processes from a basilar membrane. 

 Calyptra mitriform, small. Key No. 42. 



1. M. plumilla, Mitt. Stems I to | in. high, dull green. 

 Leaves inserted horizontally in fertile stems, patent, 

 ovate. Perichaitial, ligulate, obtuse. Leaves of 

 sterile stems distichous, vertically inserted, oblong 

 ovate, acute or obtuse ; nerve vanishing. Fruit-stalk 

 two lines long. Capsule ovoid-cylindrical, equal. Lid 

 subulate. External teeth long, narrow, red. Below 

 the quarry, Ovens Creek. 



34. OBTHODONTTUM, Schwjbgr. 

 Straight tooth. In allusion to the filiform straight teeth of 

 the inner peristome. Key, No. 51. On rocky round and on 

 old logs. 



