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26 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
14, Dicranoloma sg eset (Hedw.) Par., Ind., ed. ii, p. 26 (1904). 
[Plate IV, fig. 13.] 
Syn. Dicranum jasciatum Hedw., Sp. Muse., p. 127 (1801). Leuco- 
few prone Broth. in Engler and Prantl, mes p- 322 
(1901). nemon obsoletinerve Hampe an < wee inn., 
18, p- 496. Leucoloma obsoletinerve Broth., op. cit. 5, 
loma obsoletinerve Par., op. cit., p. 
Distribution —New Zealand : North and South Islands. 
I have examined several specimens of Dicnemon obsoletinerve pepe 
and C. M., including a specimen ex herb. C. Miill., leg. Beckett, kindly sent 
me by Dr. Brotherus, and find them paired identical with Dicranoloma 
fascratum. lf C. Miiller’s description of D. obsoletinerve in Linnaea be 
compared with his description of Dicranuwm fasciatum in the Synopsis, 
it will be found that they entirely agree, except that the former is de- 
scribed as “laxissime foliosus”’ and the latter as “ f. confertissima.” But 
the specimens of D. obsoletinerve do not bear out that description, and in 
Beckett's plant, determined by C. Miiller, the leaves are as closely set as 
in ordinary D. fasciatum. The same is the case with a plant collected 
and sent me by Mr. Petrie, also identified by C. Miller. The fruiting 
characters, which are so striking as to have caused Hampe and C. Miiller 
to place their species (not unnaturally) under Dicnemon, are absolutely 
identical in both. The explanation is probably that neither Hampe nor 
C. Miller (at any ne in 1853) knew Hedwig’s plant; the brief 
description of the latte me aa indeed, states this to have been 
the case with C. Miller : at ere 
The nerve in D. fasciatum ee in the lower part of the leaf from fairly 
well marked to faint or almost invisible ; in the subula it is always stronger 
and distinct. The serration of the hci above is somewhat coarse, as in — 
D. Billardieri ; the upper cells ay elongate, but rather lax and irregular ; 
and the border is broad and well defined to quite high up in the leaf. The 
general form of the leaf and its armature recall D. plurisetum and the 
shorter-leaved forms of D. dicarpum; the walls of the upper cells are thin, 
but frequently somewhat porose, and the “ primordial utricle ” is often ve 
noticeable. ‘The species is usually found fruiting, and is then at once recog- 
nizable from the perichaetia, which reach and often overtop the capsules. 
15. Dicranoloma Hie is ae (C. M.) Par., Ind., ed. ii, p. 29 (1904). 
[Plate IV, fig. 14.] 
BYP, Dicranum Pungeniella C. M. in Hedw., 1897, p. 355. Leucoloma 
pact Broth., in Engler and Prantl, Musci, p p- 323 (1901). 
m leucolomopsis C.M. MS. in herb., et Gen. Musc. Frondos., 
p- 290 seca D. Weymouth C. M. in Hedw., 1897, p. 354. 
Leucoloma Weymouthii Broth., op. cit. Dicran oloma Weymouthi 
Par., op. cit. 
Distribution —Tasmania, New Zealand. 
I have recorded and figured this species from Mauriceville,.N.Z. (leg. 
W. Gray), in Journ. Linn. Soc. Botany), vol. 40, p. 436, t. 20, where also 
I have given reasons for considering D. lewcolomopsis C. M. identical with it. 
on eal be doubted whether D. Pungentella (and the doubt might extend 
D. mum) may not ultimately have to be referred to D. Bil- 
e only vegetative characters to separate it (for the habit and 
pe ecces quite fall within the range of D. Billardieri) are the some- 
