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male definita, in.subula tenws, angusta, pellucida, indistincta, infra apicem 
soluta. Cellulae basilares pee anguste lineares, elongatae, eae subulae 
brevissime rectangulares vel subquadratae, 5-8» latae, omnibus papillis 
creberrimis obscuratae, scabridae, parietibus tenuibus. 
Flores masculi in caulibus propriis inter femineos intermixtis terminales, 
gemmiformes, grossiusculi. Bracteae perichaetiales mmus squarrosae, in 
subulam longiorem tenuiorem acutam minus abrupte angustatae. ta 
evis, 5-7 mm. longa, saturate rubra; theca parva, deoperculata vix 
mm. longa, erecta, symmetrica, fusco-rubra, elliptica, ore latiore (sicca 
Exot 
subturbinata ?), operculo subaequilongo,  rostellato xothecii cellulae 
rectangulares, opacissimae, parietibus transversalibus obscuris, longitudi- 
nalibus contra lucidis. Annulus nullus eris m magnum, infra 
lanceolatis, infra intense rubris, apicem versus in 2-4 crura irregularia 
pallidiora divisis vel hic illic perforatis, sat regulariter densiuscule transverse 
trabeculatis, parte dimidia inferiore sat dense papillosis, supra—praecipue 
ad ecrurium iakgap ne gare em striolatis, summo apice crurium hyalino 
dense papillosis. Spori 20-25 p, laeves. 
Hab—Mauri ees Wairarapa, North Island; December, 1908; leg. 
W. Gray (No. 2 
A se species, having the habit of D. Jamesonii, or still more of 
the European D. Schreberi (Hedw.), but at once eee from these by the 
erect theca and densely papillose cells. From D. clathrata it differs in the 
more compact tufts, much closer and smaller leaves, with the subula entire 
and still more obscure and papillose, and the peristome entirely different 
in form and sculpture. The leaf-cells of the subula are more highly papillose 
and obscure than in D. clat hrata, so that the thin nerve appears as a narrow 
— line, instead of darker or concolorous as in that species. 
structure of the exothecium is somewhat peculiar: the cells 
the eas are highly opaque, and the transverse walls are narrow and 
iconspicuous ; the longitudinal walls, on the contrary, are wider and 
comparatively translucent, and these, as the cells are placed in regular 
longitudinal rows, appear as regular pellucid lines running the length of 
- the otherwise opaque capsule. 
3. Dicranella Jamesonii (Mitt.) Broth. in Engl. & Prantl, Musci, p. 311. 
Syn. Dicranum Jamesoni Tayl. in Lond. Journ. Bot., 1848, p. 281. 
Anisothecium Jamesoni pitt M. Austr.-amer, p. 39. <Aong- 
stroemia subredunca C. M. in Hedw., 1898, p. 114. Dicranella 
edunca Par., Suppl. Ind. p. 118. Aongstroemia redunca 
C. M. (false “H. f. & W.”) m Hedw., 1898, p. 115, et Gen. M 
Fr 1. Dicranum Schreberi H. f. : 65 ; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 411 (nec Hedw.). D. campylophyllum 
Hf. & W., N.Z., 2, 65; Handb., lc., p.p. % Dicranum 
os naehitae Ri. Br.:-ter. in: Trans. N.Z.. Inst:; vol. 86, 
= 300; +; xxxvi; 
This is, I oR the most uent species in New Zealand, and the 
one seats for most of the di Ities that have arisen in connection 
with the genus. It is certainly the plant referred to D. Schreberi by Hooker 
and Wilson, followed by other authors and collectors, and is, indeed, vi gst 
near that species. D.& , however, has the leaves—as pointed out in 
- the Handbook—denticulate towards apex, while in the New Zealand oe 
