60 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
notes, with Polytrichum sexangulare, Pseudoleskea, &e. The same conditions 
would also explain the smallness of fruit in the tenwifolia type. e differ- 
ence in the figures of capsules given by R. Brown in figs. 18-20, Trans. 
N.Z. Inst., vol. 29, tt. xxxi, xxxil, is amply explained by the above facts. 
I have not, however, seen on iiller’s plants (or, indeed, on Brown’s 
specimens, or any other) a a capsule ante so elongate and narrow-mouthed 
as that figured for B. robusta (fig. 19). Brown does not state from what 
specimens his drawings were made. 
B. tenuifolia is an easily recognized plant from the habit, the sone silky 
glossy leaves, always very finely subulate to an almost filiform point, 
entirely composed of the nerve. The ie are uniformly extremely long, 
species, but are well marked, usually hyaline, with brown, not very incrassate 
walls; usually sharply delimited from the narrow, ugha aa but 
often passing upwards less abruptly at the margins into the r, linear 
cells. As is frequently the case with falcate-secund leaves, ee aie 
are frequently unequally developed on the two sides of the leaf. 
A marked character is the nerve. This is stout and very conspicuous 
in the upper part of the leaf-base, but lower down almost invariably 
becomes less distinct, sometimes conspicuously fainter, either from actual 
narrowing, or thinning-out, or from being less clearly defined at the edges. 
At present the two localities referred to above, for both of which we 
are indebted to the enterprising collecting of R. Brown, are the only New 
Zealand localities known for this interesting species. Its pange is Fuegia, 
New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia (Victoria, N.S.W.).* 
2. Blindia contecta (H. f. & W.) C. M., Syn., 1, 344. 
Syn. Weisia contecta H. {. & W. in Lond. Journ. Bot., foie p- 540 ; 
Fl. Antarct., 1, 127, tab. lviii; Handb. N.Z. FI., p. 405. Dicrano- 
see contecta Par.; Ind., p 40, 
The claim of B. contecta to be a New Zealand plant rests on its existence 
on Campbell Island ; it has not at present been found on the mainland. 
It is a much more rigid plant than either of the other two species, havin 
the leaves much shorter than in B. tenuifoha, straight, prc unaltered 
Mis Hite and ending in a long, solid, bristly arista; it is also at once 
wn. by its entirely immersed capsule on a very short seta, and also by the 
dines cells, which are very small and short, minutely oval or elliptical, the 
alar very distinct, the nerve stout. 
Distribution.— Western Patagonia, Straits of Magellan, Kerguelen 
Island, Campbell Island. 
3. Blindia magellanica W. P. Schimp. e C. Mill. in Bot. Zeit., 1862, 
p. 328. [Plate VI, fig. 14.] 
Syn. B. arcuata Mitt., M. Austr.-amer., p. 55 (1869). B. acuta var. 
curviseta Mitt. in “Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), 4, 1859, p. 58. B. 
Phat me R. Br. ter. in Trans. N.Z. oe vol, 35, p. 335, t. xxxix. 
s Dus., Beitr. zur Bryol. Magell., &c., in Ackiv for 
the Bids pe 7,6. 2: ed consimilis Cad, FI. Bryol. des Terres 
Mecell., ke., p. 83, fig. 
pS Rigs the above was written I have observed that Watts and Whitelegge, Census 
Australiens., p. 41, note under B. tenuifolia (H. f. & W.), “In herb. Melb. 
sae with B. robusta.” 
