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Eur., and have no hesitation in referring C. elimbatus to this subspecies, 
with which I think it agrees in every important respect. The capsule is 
ere see ems to be some confusion between C. delicatulus var. mir 
and C. elimbatus as regards origin. Brotherus, who published the prvi 
tions of both C. elimbatus Broth. “and C. delicatulus C, M. in “ Musci Schauins- 
landiani,”’ gives the distribution thus: C. elimbatus : Neuseeland—Otago, 
Blue Mountains (D. Petrie in herb. T. W. Naylor Beckett, sub n. 660 0) : 
Glenorchy und Kinloch, Heide (Schauinsland, n. 192 und 203, f. seta sem ork 
C. delicatulus ; Neuse eland—Chatham Islands (n. 32). Var. minor: Neu 
eh EME ee Island (n. 177, 
Miiller’s herbarium the Glenorchy plant, Schauinsland, n. 203, is 
the oi of C. delicatulus var. minor, and is the only specimen there so 
named. The Rangitoto Island n. 177 has in C. Miiller’s hand: “ Ceratodon 
or what is the solution; nor, frankly, does it appear to me a point worth 
taking the trouble to clear u up. 
CnetLoTHELA Lindb., Utkast not. grup.» p. 34 (1878). 
chilense Mont., and the New Zealand C. novins- Wabaadeze Broth. It 
separated from Ceratodon by the capsule without struma, but especially by 
the character of the areolation, which in the upper part of the leaf is dense 
and obscure with bifid papillae. 
Cheilothela novae-seelandiae Broth. in Oefv. af Finska Vet.-Soc. Foerh., 
1898, p. 164 | 
Ryn. Ceratodon novae- Bi croak Par., Suppl. Ind., p. 100. 
According to Brotherus, the moss mentioned on p. 418 of the Handbook, 
and referred by — very doubtfully to Trichostomum strictum Bruch, 
probably belongs her 
It is widely dictated in New Zealand, and probably common. 
Disticuium Bry. Eur. 
Distichium capillaceum (Sw.) Bry. Eur., 2, p. 4, t. 193. Handb. N.Z. 
. 422 (nec FI. N.Z., 2, 73). [Plate V, fig. 6.] 
Syn. Swartzia montana Lindb. in Act. Soc. sc. Fenn., 10, 16, et mult. 
auct. 
There is no necessity to give the full synonymy of this almost cosmo- 
eee species, the geographical distribution of which occupies ee lines 
, who, however, curiously omits New Zealand from the list, giving 
onl Tasmania and Magellan for the Southern Hemisphere, sia it oceurs 
