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Very small and slender, rarely an inch in height, leaves more or less 
greenish-brown, small, about 2°5-3 mm. long, with a fine subula not much 
longer than the base, not rigid as in B. contecta, but only slightly flexuose 
when dry. Apex finely acute and entire or broad and denticulate (as in 
the European B. acuta). Upper cells all elongate, though the uppermost 
may be only three times as long as wide, or even slightly less, oblong or 
Blindia acuta var.,” in Mitten’s hand, at Kew, is identical with this, the 
upper leaf-cells showing a tendency to be somewhat shorter, sometimes not 
more than 3 x 1, or here and there slightly less, and the whole plant bein 
rather smaller, but in all other characters it agrees exactly. : 
itten’s name must, however, give way to B. magellanica, a MS. name 
of Schimper’s applied to Hooker’s Hermite Island plant in herb. Hampe., 
and fully published by C. Miiller in the vol. of Bot. Zeit. for 1862, seven 
years earlier than the publication of the Musci Austr.-americani. (. Miller 
(Gen. Musc. Fr., p. 245) has given B. arcuata as a synonym of his B. 
lanica (which, by the way, is twice cited by Watts and Whitelegge in their 
Cens. Musc. Austral., by a slip, as B. magellanica H. f. & W. I have 
examined the specimen in Hampe’s herbarium at the British Museum, which 
is the type of B. magellanica C. M. It is without any doubt identical with 
—in fact, the same plant as—No. 130, Herb. Hook., Hermite Island, the 
type of Mitten’s B. arcuata. 
I have seen no record of B. magellanica for New Zealand under any of 
the above names, but it exists in Herb. Kew. under the MS. name “ Blindia 
Colensoi n. sp. Broth., No. 2947, New Zealand; comm. Rev. W. Colenso, 
xi, 1894; det. V. F. Brotherus, ix, 1895.” This specimen is in fruit, and 
herbarium, there can be no doubt from the description and figures (Trans. 
N.Z. Inst., vol. 35, p. 335, tab. xxxix) that it belongs to B. magellanica. 
Watts and Whitelegge, in the work just quoted, give both B. arcuata 
Mitt. and B. curviseta Mitt. as occurring in Tasmania, and the same distribu- 
