NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 
BULLETIN No. 3, PART III. 
Issvep Isr August, 1923. 
STUDIES IN THE 
BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZHKALAND, 
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE HERBARIUM OF 
ROBERT BROWN, 
By H. N. Dixon, M.A., F.L.S. 
PART 11. 
Plates VII and VIII. 
Since the publication of Part II the outbreak of war in Europe has seriously 
interfered, in more than one respect, with the carrying-out of these studies. 
One of my primary objects has been to clear up the position of a number 
of New Zealand species created by C. Miller, either descri 
happy state of hostility between the nations has rendered it eats & to 
obtain from Berlin some of the specimens in C. Miiller’s herbarium which 
are necessary in order to determine their true position. Fortunately, some 
of those with which this instalment is concerned had been kindly loaned 
to me before the outbreak of hostilities, and for these I have to express my 
indebtedness to the authorities of the Berlin Museum ; but in a few cases 
ion, 
necessity inconclusive—from the descriptions alone. If these ae been 
for the most part unfavourable to the validity of the species, it is because 
they date in nearly all cases from a late period in C. Miiler’s life when his 
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