194 BLEPHAROSTOMA PALMATUM LINDB. 
a at antheridia globose, shortly stipitate, Barren stems 
often capita ate. 
Measurements. — Stems s +3 in. long, ‘2-3 mm. diam., near 
base of perianth -8--5 mm. diam.; leaves ‘9 mm. long x ‘6 mm. 
broad; segments ‘6 mm. long, -6 x 4 seg. °35, °55 x °4 seg. °35; 
cells 08 x -02 mm., -08 x -03, ‘08 x -025; cells of spines 06 mm. 
long x ‘02 mm. broad, 04 x “02; bracts 1:0 mm. long x ‘7 mm. 
‘ m., °8 wi ‘ 
h and ‘5 mm. broad ; pistillidia -175 mm. long x ‘05 mm. broad; 
apex of pedicel ect of capsule) -25 mm. diam. ; valves 2 capsule 
road; perigonial leaves bf mm, — x BS 
mm. broad, seg. -25 mm. long; antheridia ‘15 mm. x *16 m 
Habitat. —Otago, New Zealand, inter H. it i vetobatal “1868, 
n. 18; Hector (Herb. Lindb.). Cambewarra, near Mo ss Vale, New 
So uth Wales; ae by Mr. C. Harris; min dinn wei by Mr. T 
Whitelegge, Sept. 1 
Obs. — Diff ers re Blepharostoma pulchellum (Hook.) in its 
smaller size, leaves not go broad, with a narrower base, segments 
more rigidly spinose, not so long or r finely ciliate, and the shorter 
broader perianth wi -80 spines, not 50-60. From Blepharo- 
stoma quadrifidum (Mitt.) in the broader leaves, with the segments 
spinose, not merely dentate, and the broader perianth. Blepharo- 
stoma quadripartitum (Hook.) on ieee podophylla Angstr., on 
the faith of a specimen lent me by Prof. Lindberg from the R. Acad. 
of Se., Stockholm), is a aller peas with exactly transversely 
inserted leaves, which are are oblong-quadrate ; pr see more than 
two-thirds the len ngth of leaf, which have on both margins 6, 7, o 
8 mins situated long teeth, the basal ones remarkably seftexsds 
the nth has its mouth simply setose; in this species the 
periants are nh the a plicate a the mouth, which is 
liea: 
I intended publishing this species as new, and as such forwarded 
it to Prof. Lindberg, iio gente “Your species appears to be 
the same as my Temnoma palmatum (MSS. Oct. 10, 1876), which I 
picked out from a tuft Hypnum rutabulum, from Otago, New 
Zealand.’ Being the same, { adopt the Professor’s appropriate 
me. 
Dr. Spruce merges Mr. Mitten’s genus Temnoma into Blepharo- 
stoma of Dumortier. I was for a time inclined to dissent from this 
view, havi the guccubous insertion of the leaves of 
several of the species referred to this genus by Mr. Mitten ; but 
study of the perianths of B, quadripartitum (Hook.) shows that the 
does not obtain, for they are more or less constricted by en Lagoon 
at the mouth, so so linking them with those of B. trichophy 
