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species. In 100) oe Antarctica, B. consimilis is ae only 
with B. elongata (the robust Australasian “comosa” forms of 
B. pendula ee noe then known), and no characters pe suggested 
that are in ~~ way in conflict with the view that is identical 
with B. pendula 
The seta in the — a of B. pendula varies greatly in 
length, from 1:5 cm. to 5 em., but I do not find this oe 
correlated with os “others, pa even varying according to the 
general size fori robustness of the plant. The eatability of 
B. noted by Mitten, who writes = Journ. Linn. 
Soc. (Bot.), i iy. 83): “ B. pendula, which has been much misunder- 
stood, varies yes in ifs size, being sometimes poses larger than 
the usual states of Philonotis fontana, as in ~_ — specimens 
gathered by Menzies, at others as large a gigantea.” He 
adds that B. elongata may be a form of B. or but I should 
ae be prepared to follow him as far as that 
ould then give the synonymy of B. pomcrts as follows :— 
Bisoaaeil PENDULA (Hook.) Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 
9). 
iv. x 
Syn.—Bartramia pendula Hook. Muse. exot. t. 21 (1818-20). 
ryum pendulum Brid. Mant. M. 120 (1819). 
Mnium pendulum Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vii. 262. 
ee a Brid. Bryol. Univ. ii. 27. 
Bartra omosa Mitt. ex Hook., Handb. of N.Z. Fl. 449. 
Hvonmac romaine H. f. & W., Fl. Antarct. i. 137. 
Bartramia consimilis Mitt. ex Hook., Handb. of N.Z. Fl. 
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Breutelia consimilis J aeg. Adumbr. ii. 559. 
Breutelia divaricata Mitt. in Journ. tind. Soc. (Bot.) iv. 82 
(1859). 
Bartramia divaricata Mitt. in Fl, Tasman. aid 
oe oie gigantea H. f. & W., N.Z. FI. ii. 90 (nec 
Breutelia Siebert (Hornse h.) Mitt. is a well-defined species in 
the narrower, less _plicate leave ith the base little expanded, 
not erect and appressed, the upper margins more sharply serrate, 
the upper cells all elongate; and especially in i Pere 9 differ- 
entiated alar cells. In B. pendula these are strongly marked, 
forming a band two or three rows wide of eae hyaline cells, 
extending for some distance up the basal margin, and strongly 
contrasted with the very narrow golden cells forming the rest of 
the base. In B. Siebert these lax cells are entirely wanting, and 
the alar marginal cells differ very little from those of the rest of 
the leaf base, rarely forming a short band of widened, but not 
large or hyaline, cells. The capsule in the fruiting specimens I 
ave seen is small, quite pendulous, and remarkably mnioid in 
ed eairece 
otherus expresses a doubt as to the occurrence of B. 
Siebert in New Zealand. It is certainly very rare there; but I 
* Paris is wrong in citing Jaeg. Adumbr. for this ee 
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