80 



1. L Lagurus, Hook. Stem and branches covered with 

 matted fibrils. Leaves bright green, glossy, imbricate, 

 oblong-ovate, concave, acuminate, piliferous, not 

 striate, scarcely nerved. Capsule erect, sub-cylindrical, 

 lid obliquely rostrate. Stereodon Lagurus, Mitten. 

 Near the top of Mt. Wellington, south side. 



SO. CLADOMNION, Hook/, and Wils. 



Lateral branching moss, loosely tufted, creeping, with 

 erect, long, slender branches. Key, No. 71. 



Capsule sulcate, leaf neiveless. 



1. C. sciuroides, LesJcea, Hook. Stems creeping ; branches 



sub-erect ; incurved, rather flattened ; leaves erecto- 

 patent, sub-secund, ovate, acuminate, plicate, striate, 

 serrate at the apex, nerve 0. Fruitstalk short. Capsule 

 erect, oblong, sulcate. Double peristome, inner a 

 deeply divided membrane, 16 carinate processes. Lid 

 conical-subulate. Stereodon (Achyrophyllum) scuiroides. 

 On twigs and trunks of trees in dense woods. 



Capsule smooth, leaf nerved. 



2. C. setosum (Ancectangium), Hedwg. The young upright 



shoots elongate, nearly simple. Leaves crowded, sub- 

 secund from an ovate base, thence subulate- setaceous, 

 serrate, nerve solid. -Fruitstalk very short. Capsule 

 erect, smooth, oblong. Lid beaked. Neckera setosa, 

 Hook. Spiredeus, Mitt. Pilotrichum, C. Muell. 

 Gyrtopus setosus, Hook. Handbook N.Z. PI. 



51. LESKEA, Hedwg. 



Named in memory of Leske, a professor at Leipsic. Key, 

 No. 65. 



Li imbricata, Hook. /. and Wils. Monoicous. Stem 

 creeping ; young erect shoots vaguely or sparingly 

 branched, branches curved, thickened above. Leaves 

 imbricate, crowded, rotundo-ovate, margin almost 

 plain, strong nerve vanishing under the apex. Moist 

 rocks on Mt. Wellington. Foliage brownish or lurid. 

 This is, perhaps, a young state of Cryphcea. Mitt, in 

 Fl. Tasm. 



52. METEOEIUM, Bkidel. 



That which is suspended in the air, in allusion to the habit 

 of this genus in creeping over trees and stones, pendulons, 

 very long. Key, No. 72. 



