4 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
specimens for comparison. One is brought at once to a deadlock, and 
the same thing is likely to occur in connection with any of the groups dealt 
with by the same writer. To some extent this applies also to the species 
created by C. Miiller and Colenso, but specimens of a considerable number 
at least of these have ‘been distributed and are more or less available, 
while their descriptions are, for the most part, fuller and more dis- 
criminating. 
these circumstances, it seemed desirable, if possible, = effect a re- 
vision of Brown ’s plants, which existed, if anywhere, in his own herbarium 
of mosses siteacitved in the Canterbury Museum at Cheiatshacele and the 
herbarium has been entrusted to me for the purpos 
alasily it seems Stumble to jectify. It is ra en curious, too, that 
h a genus as Andreaea, while the Ress number of Brown’s new 
species are saa they are represented in most cases “iag a single specimen 
mark co-type.”” In what sense exactly he uses this term it is difficult 
believe that the specimens upon which he based his species were small in 
quantity, and probably scarcely capable of division. It is possible, though 
scarcely likely, that these and all his “types” were kept separately, and 
that the herbarium as now in the Museum represents only such plants as 
were not species of his own describing, together he duplicate (‘* co-type ”’) 
specimens of such as would bear division. It is more probable that he 
attributed no value in particular to “type” apie ens, and was at no pains: 
to preserve them, considering that when once described and figured their 
work had been accomplished and their purpose served. Whatever the 
explanation, I am assured ast Rina is no hope of the appearance of any 
further specimens, and am compelled to make the most of whatever 
material is Gyailabie hs in the oltestibin sent. 
The cppmnagees of the late R. Brown must have been a striking on 
Dr. L. Cockayne, who knew him in his collecting days, writes of him, “ He 
was the most enthusiastic naturalist I ever met—a man of but little 
education, intensely modest in many ways, and yet self-opinionated 
to no small degree. a was about seventy years of age when he 
first germs to wr His mi microscope was old and in bad 
i Sane i Apparat was ; self-made ; he possessed hardly a book 
field no Seine no toil, was too great. He would sleep in ree open, 
a —— food, carry heavy burdens for incredible distances, be 
for weeks at a time—and all for his love of natural history. 
mek hf “= world’s come for he had very little. His one love was 
