18 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
I have examined the type of C. Miiller’s “ Dicranum calymperaceum 
n. sp., Australia—Queensland, leg. Bailey, 1884; misit Kiaer.” There is 
nothing either in the description or in the specimen to separate it from 
D. setosum, except that the author describes the habit as “ calymperoid, 
and compares it with D. calymperoideum in this respect. This latter, 
however, is a true Leucoloma, while D. calymperaceum is absolutely similar 
in habit to typical D. setosum. 
The type of Dicranum subsetosum in C. Miiller’s herbarium also exhibits 
no difference from D. setosum except in the fragility of the leaves, 
which is a not infrequent state of D. setosuwm, and obtains to some extent 
even in the ordinary forms, so as to be scarcely, I think, worthy of a 
varietal name. It occurs markedly in some New Zealand specimens which 
I have received under the name of D. subpungens. 
. selenicarpum C. M. (ined.), type in C. Miiller’s herbarium, “‘ Half-moon 
Bay, Stewart Island ; coll., W. Bell; No. 743,” ex herb. Beckett, is also, 
with a tapering base; but old capsules which had become fully matured 
before drying show the normal wider, strumulose form characteristic of 
this group of species. The two forms on the same specimen afford a very 
striking illustration of the want of value to be attributed to the strumose 
or estrumose character, except as judged from the fully matured capsule. 
In other eck D. selenicarpum shows no difference from D. setosum. 
r (Synops., i, 368) emphasizes the dimorphous character of 
the alar sills the lowest marginal ones being elongate and large. I do 
not, however, find them in any way different from those of the rest of this 
group, where the alar cells along the lines of insertion are generally, in one — 
or two rows, markedly longer and narrower than the quadrate upper median 
ones. 
7. Dicranoloma grossialare (C. M.) sp. nov. [Plate I, fig. 4.] 
Syn. Dicranum ee C. M. MS. in herb., et Gen. Musc. Frondos., 
p. 290 (nom 
lata, superne valde convoluta, sensim in subulam longam setaceam carinatam 
vel subplanam nec convolutaceam angustata, marginibus per partem subulae 
superiorem minute, apicem versus argutius nec grosse a Costa 
supra valida, basin versus tenuis, saepe istincta, in lamina 
circa 80-120,» lata (in sectione um Toxonewron exhibe <_ ducibus 
4-6, stereideis perpaucis inconspicuis externis saepius substereideis), 
superne pernotata, dorso valde prominens, sublaevis, apicem versus 
excurrentem tantum denticulata. Cellulae alares numerosae, magnae 
auriculas magnas dilatatas purpureas formantes. Rete basilare elon- 
gatum, e cellulis perincrassatis perporosis instructum, ad marginem 1-2 
seriebus angustissimis decoloratis, limbum perangustum sat bene 
parietibus tenuiusculis, porosis; marginalibus superne saepe distincte 
brevioribus, subobliquis, denticulationes formantibus. 
Perichaetia longe exserta, ad. 1-6cm. longa, foliis inferioribus breviter 
vaginantibus in aristam subaequilongam subito contractis, superioribus 
