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tenuifolia of quite minor importance. 
Brown’s herbarium is, in any case, identical with some of the Australian 
specimens of B. robusta. 
In the subsequent paragraph of his paper R. Brown proceeds to dis- 
pute Beckett’s identification of his Dicranum collinum with B. tenuifolia 
.f. & W.). Beckett in another paper (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 27, p- 
had referred Brown’s moss—< In shallow tarn on top of Mount Thompson, 
Stewart Island, No. 401; R. Brown: April, 1892 ”’—to B. tenuifolia, citing 
Mitten’s description of the Fuegian plant from the M. Austr.-amer., and 
figuring the perichaetial leaves, &c. Brown bases his contention (not 
having seen authentic specimens of B. tenuifolia) upon the dissimilarity 
So far, then, I have attempted to show that Beckett’s reference of R. 
Brown’s two mosses, the one from Waimakariri Glacier, the other from 
them, as mentioned above, with B. tenuifolia, while Brown described and 
Meanwhile it appears that Beckett had sent part of the specimens 
received from R. Brown, unnamed, to (. Miiller, who has it in his herbarium 
as “ Blindia aquatilis C. Mill., Mount Thompson, Stewart Island,” without 
name of collector (in the Gen. Muse. Fr., p. 245, he gives it as “ Bl. aquatilis 
species. 
e e specimens of Dicranum tenuifolium H. f. & W., from Hermite 
Island, Fuegia, in the Hookerian herbarium, are almost entirely black in 
colour, about 1 in. or slightly more in height, the leaves strongly falcate 
and secund but not circinate, the capsule very small, black, on a rather 
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