96 



60. HYMENODON, Hook/, and Wxls. 



Membranaceous tooth, alluding to the narrow basal membrane 

 uniting the teeth of the peristome. Key, No. 57. On trunks 

 of trees and on the ground. 



1. H. pilifer, Hook /. and Wils. Dioicous. Leaves 

 laxly and distichously imbricate, spreading, elliptic- 

 oblong, flat, long piliferous, crenulate, nerve vanishing; 

 perichsetial lanceolate-acuminate, erect. Fruitstalk 

 long and slender, basilar. Capsule inclined, oval, 

 contracted at the mouth; peristome simple, teeth 16, 

 membranaceous, equi-distant, linear-subulate, fuga- 

 cious, tips cohering. Lid beaked. Calyptra dimidiate, 

 Habit as Ehmgonium. On trunks of tree ferns, banks 

 of Huon River. 



61. HYPOPTERYGIUM, Pbidel. 



The name refers to the fruitstalk being produced under the 

 leaves. Key, Eos. 60, 67, and 80. 



1. H. Smithianum, Hook. /. and Wils. Dioicous. Stems 

 bipinnately branched, naked below. Leaves distichous, 

 orbicular-ovate, apiculate, 

 decurved, nerve vanishing, 

 orbicular, acuminate, with 

 pendulous ; lid rostrate. 

 Muell. Hooheria rotulaia, 

 arranged in a deltoid form. 

 Leaves crisped when dry, 

 more slender, more arcuate. 



rather concave, margin 

 apex denticulate ; dorsal 



a stout nerve ; capsule 



II. Novce Zealandice, G. 



Smith. The leaves are 



Mt. Wellington. Var. 



dorsal oblong-, fruitstalk 



H. glaucum, Sullivant. A very small species ; stems 

 tufted, Jin. high ; branches forming a nearly orbicular 

 crown, pale glaucous yellow- green, decurved. Leaves 

 closely imbricate, very defiexed, broadly ovate-acumi- 

 nate or apiculate, obscurely serrulate ; nerve produced 

 half-way or more ; dorsal large, compared with others, 

 orbicular, acuminate, with the nerve continuous. 

 Fruitstalk stout, arcuate. Capsule ovoid, cernuous ; 

 lid with a slender beak, nearly as long as the capsule. 

 Hook Handbook N.Z. PI. 



62. 



A scale, referring 

 In damp forests. 



LOPIDIUM, Bbidel. 

 ■ to the rough fruitstalk. 



Key Ko. 68. 



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