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Leaves obloug-laneeolate ; lid shortly conical, apiculate. 



15. B. chrysoneuron, C. Muell. B. duriusculum, Hook. 



f. and Wils. Stems short, leaves spreading or erecto- 

 patent, rather rigid, erect when dry, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, concave, margins quite entire, reflexed ; 

 nerve stout, excurrent, or almost so. Fruitstalk very 

 slender, flexuous, capsule cernuous, oblong-pyriform 

 or cylindric, narrow at the base ; operculum shortly 

 conical, apiculate. Inflorescence dioicous. Hook. 

 Handbook N.Z. M. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, piliferous ; lid reddish, apiculate. 



16. B. capillare, Hedwg. Stems J to lin. long, radicu- 



lose below. Leaves more or less spreading, strongly 

 contorted when dry ; lower leaves ovate-oblong, 

 apiculate ; terminal, larger, obovate-oblong, with long 

 slender points, nerve ceasing below the apex or ex- 

 current ; capsule sub-pendulous, oblong-pyriform, 

 clavate or obovate ; lid apiculate. Inner peristome 

 deeply coloured. Wils. Bry. Brit. 



Leaf-margin flat ; capsule rounded at base. 



17. B, pacytheca, C. Muell. Stems short, i to -|-in. 

 high ; leaves pale dull green, widely ovate-acuminate, 

 concave, margin nearly plain, nerve thick and excur- 

 rent. Fruitstalk short, capsule pendulous, ovoid, 

 ventricose, rounded at the base, red-purple, lid short, 

 sub-conical. Var. B. leaves narrow, thicker nerve. 

 Var. 7- inflatum, leaves nearly round, concave, in- 

 curved. Dry earth, Macquarie Plains, Bellerive. 



Fruitstalk very short ; capsule very long, arcuate-clavate. 



18. B. clauatum, Hook. f. and Wils. Leaves erecto- 



patent, sub-coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, concave, 

 thick excurrent nerve. Lid sub-conical. On the 

 ground. 



Nerve excurrent, sometimes denticulate. 



19. B. intermedium, Web. and Mohe. Caespitose, stems 



radiculose, branched, sterile branches slender, with 

 loosely-imbricated leaves ; leaves more or less spread- 

 ing, ovate-acuminate, ovate or oblong, or elongate- 

 lanceolate, nerve excurrent, longish, cuspidate, sub- 

 denticulate, margin recurved. Capsule pendulous, 

 nearly pyriform, sub-clavate, long neck, lid acute, 

 persistent. Turf banks, Glen Leith. 



