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Obs. III. I have with pleasure named this species after Mr. F. Reader 
(formerly of Blenheim, New Zealand, but now of Victoria), an amiable, per- 
severing and unassuming young botanist, and diligent collector of plants, 
especially mosses; which Order he has long made his particular and close 
study, and that from pure love of nature, and not for mere pecuniary 
gain. 
Genus 71. Hookeria, Smith. 
1. Hookeria trichophora, sp. nov. 
Plant small, under 1 inch high, densely tufted, stems erect; branches 
red, stout, 4-2 inch long, simple and branched above, rooting below. 
Leaves minute, 4 of a line long, sub-quadrifarious, oblong-orbicular, acu- 
minate, serrulate half-length down from tip, nerve about half-through ; 
crisp when dry ; cells very small above, increasing in size downwards from 
apex of nerve and very large at base; perichetial erect, sub-ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate. Fruitstalk erect, 1—2 inch long, longer than stems, flexuous, 
smooth, red, springing from below the base of a branch, thickened and 
rooting at base. Capsule oval, inclined or horizontal, sub-apophysate, 
reddish, beak long, curved upwards. Calyptra white, fimbriate at base, tip 
black and hairy ; hairs loose and very long, 
Hab. In patches on rotten trunks, deep and wet forests, Norsewood, 
County of Waipawa ; 1884: W.C. 
Obs. A species having some affinity with H. apiculata and rotundi- 
folia; differing from the former in its nerve and small cells ; and from the 
latter by its small cells and white and hairy calyptra. 
2. Hookeria sciadophila, sp. nov. 
Plant 1-13 inches high, sub-flabellate, bipinnately branched, thickly 
tomentose below on main stems with branched red-brown hairs; branches 
flat, compressed, 8-4 lines wide, slightly concave, dark below, branchlets 
and leaves closely imbricate. Leaves sub-quadrifariously disposed, broadly 
elliptie, round at tips, above 1 line long, spreading, flat, light green, nerve 
extending nearly to margin, margin entire and very thin; cells small in 
regular hexagons in the upper portion, and in very large oblong-hexagons 
at lower half of nerve and base of leaf; perichetial small, ovate, nerve 
stronger and cells larger.  Fruitstalk lateral, springing from base of 
branchlets, 3 lines long, black, flexuous, shining, incrassated at base with a 
sheathing ring ; 2-8 together on a branchlet. Capsule oblong, sub-erect, 
regularly and finely reticulate ; operculum conical, beak long. Calyptra 
small, glabrous, very acuminate, tip black, slightly and finely lacerate at 
base. 
Hab. On the ground, sides of deep narrow watercourses, uk forests 
near Norsewood, County of Waipawa; 1888-84: W.C. 
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