19 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
1. Dicranoloma Menziesii (H. f. & W.) Par., Index, ed. 11, p. 28 (1904), 
[Plate IV, fig. 16.] 
Syn. Dicranum Menziesii H. f. & W. in Lond. Journ. of Bot., 1844, 
p- 541. Leucoloma Menziesii Broth. in Engler and Prantl, Musci, 
p- 322 (1901). Dicranum brachypelma ©. M. in Bot. Zeit., 
1851, p. 550 [non D. brachypelma C. M., Syn., ii, 595 (1851)]. 
Dicranum kaiparense Par., Ind., p. 356 (1895). Dieranoloma 
kaiparense Par., Ind., ed. ii, p. 27 (1904). Dicranwm suberectum 
ampe in Linn., 1859, p. 629. Dicranoloma suberectum Par., 
Ind., ed. ii, p. 30 (1904). Dicranum oedithecium C. M. in Hedw.., 
1897, p. 357 (fide Brotherus, op. cit.). Dicranoloma oedithecium 
Par., op. cit. Dicranum trichophyllum Hampe in Linn., 1871-73, 
p- 515 (fide Brotherus, op. cit.).. Dicranoloma trichophyllum Par., 
. ett. Dicranum Kroneanum C. M. in 
(fide Brotherus, op. cit.). Dicranoloma Kroneanum Par., op. cit. 
icranum fuloum R. Br. ter. in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 29, p. 462 
(1896) [non D. fuluum Hook., Muse. exot., 1820]. Dicranoloma 
julvum Par., op. cit. Dicranum Brownii Par., Ind., Suppl., p. 121 
(1900). 
a 
Var. rigidum (H. f. & W.) Par. 
Syn. Dicranum Menziesii var. rigidum H. f. & W., Flora of N as 
vol. 2, p. 170 (1855). 
D. Menziesii is distributed throughout the subantarctic region, being 
recorded from Chile, Auckland Islands, Norfolk Island, Chatham Islands, 
New Z aland, Ta mania, and Australia. 
It is qui'e distinct from all its congeners (except D. diaphanoneuron) 
in these regions, not only in the areolation, but in the form of the leaves, 
their expanded part being far shorter in proportion to the subula than in 
nearly all the remaining species, while the fruiting characters also, the 
short perichaetium and seta, and the often very short striated capsule 
combine to give the plant a very different appearance from most of the 
ies. 
I refer to var. rigidum (H. f. & W.) a short form with more erect, 
brittle leaves, which I have from Tapanui, Otago (leg. Petrie), from near 
Auckland, and from Mount Cook district (leq. Murray, Nos. 7, 129a). 
Intermediate forms occur between it and the type. 
Som 
species under the Pari in error ( ed. li) in citing 
Zealand under the distribution of the former. For the latter he 
substitutes the name D. kaiparense, but u rily, since C. Miiller had 
There 0. 
his D. fulvum, but from the description as well as the figures there can be 
no doubt that it is a form of D. Menziesii. Indeed, he gives no characters 
