$2 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
8 Plants covered with a blue- ey * bloom ” eg es ES Saelania. 
: Somes of siiearng colouring ae = is 9 
y distichous .. = a ae = Distichium. 
El iccwe or dstivhe ous a s. iy z: 10 
10. Seta cy; = =i es Compylopodinm 
Seta ake or ay slightly flexuose 
— ~~ ee marginal cells very thin, forming a distinct hyaline ma 
i, Pacudodistichium, 
pay ra meee cells not differentiated 12 
12, Capsule short, oval or elliptical, usually mpyuasistcicel ail 6 ea Dicranstia: 
Capsule more or less cylin i cal, erect or inclined, s poumetesonl or seg so, 13 
13. Leaves not subulate, capsule strumose at base. ie me vabciboes 
Leaves finely — asic without et es busca 
ae ae seign rical, more or — eg, or rounded, wae: sedi when 
14, me meh br oad, short, Blindia 
Capsule caeadky eee mostly ssjmmetrcal peristome teeth narrow, 
usually divided to near the bas Es os i 
15. {Se gneous, nerve besad ee <e el ae 
Seta erect or flexuose, nerve usually narrow 17 
Capsule ny furrowed, peristome teeth ise at ines, rae to about 
ee 
16. (cane smooth, calyptra fringed at base ; _Peristome teeth more or less filifo: 
not t base Th mace Sg 
17. Leaves more or less narrowed, lanceolate or cubalitte Show Ms 8 
conten broad Ao ae obtu Bitay 
Leaf-base — ris heathing, wi ak above shay suddenly ms peer to ‘etal ; 
18. capsule erect, symmetroal (f- also tus). . H atrium. 
Leaf-base oun “distinet =) broader callie re es 19 
19. Capsule immersed, primary stem creeping - ae i M esotus. 
Capsule on a longer or aan er oe stem erect .. 20 
Capsule erect, symmetrical; peristome teeth not (or scarcely) veaticaly 
20. striolate . Dicranoweisia. 
Peristome 0, or teetn vertically ‘striolate on dorsal surface Se Sila 
(Leaves not — yale anum. 
21. 4 Leaves with a n w border of extremely thin, hyaline cells ; ; frequently indie, 
tinct, or eile r base 22 
Habit of Dicranum, . ais er cells fe from the ai deg. mem- 
{ branaceous, smooth, not chlorophyllose Dicranoloma. 
22.4 Habit distinct, not dicranoid, areolation of minute, not elongate, chlorophyllose 
| cells, usually papillose, _— nearly to base ending lo 
margins than near nerve ae 2 
Brucara Schwaegrichen, 1824. 
Paris, followed by Roth (Aussereuropaischen Laubm., 1, 127), cites 
New Zealand for Bribie minuta Mitt.; Roth gives no diagnosis or figure, 
explaining that no specimens were found in Mitten’s herbarium. The 
citation of New d is due entirely to a false reference in Paris (Handb. 
N.Z. F1., p. 223), iad the species has ‘no claim—at present—to be a New Zea- 
land one. The original gathering, “Tasmania, Archer,” exists in the Kew 
Herbarium, and is the sole representative of the species in the collection. 
The synonymy should read,— s 
Brucsia minuta Mitt. in Journ. of the Linn. Soc., 1859, p. 65, et 
in Fl. Tasman., 2, 165, t. 171, f. 4 (1860). 
Syn. Sporledera minuta Jaeg., Adumbr., p. 223; Par., Ind., ed. i, 
1229 (1897). 
asmania. 
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