DICRANACEAE, 79 
Bravnretsia Par., Ind. bryol, p. 148 (1894). 
Braunfelsia obesifolia (R. Br. ter.) Dixon comb. nov. 
Syn. Dicranum (?) obesifolium R. Br. ter. in Trans N.Z. Inst., vol. 29, 
p. 462, t. 34 (1896). Hucamptodon Petriei Broth. in Oefv. af 
Finska Vet. Soc. Foerh., xl (1898), p. 161. Braunfelsia Petriei 
Broth. in Engler and Prantl, Musci, p- 321 (1901). 
This very remarkable and fine plant has, so far as I am aware, not been 
gathered outside the Province of Westland, where it was collected by 
D. Petrie in the Teremakau Valley (and subsequently in the Otira Valley), 
and independently by R. Brown in two stations on Kelly’s Hill. R. Brown 
published his plant in the Transactions as Dicranum (?) obesifolium. The 
specimen in his herbarium figures as D. (?) obesum. It is a taller and even 
finer plant than Petrie’s specimens, with larger, slightly more distant leaves, 
but is indisputably the same thing, and Brown’s name must replace that of 
Brotherus. 
Brotherus in his original description of Eucamptodon Petriei states that 
the fruit is unknown ; in a specimen sent me by Mr. Petrie, gathered 
in the Otira Valley, Westland, there is a single overripe, old, and deoperculate 
capsule. The perichaetium is elongate, about 1 cm. long, convolute and 
subtubular, the innermost bracts subobtuse. (The uppermost leaves of the 
stems also are very closely convolute, forming terete cuspidate points closely 
similar to the perichaetia.) The seta is, with the capsule, 2 cm. long, red, 
long, stout, erect or suberect, subcylindrical, rather pachydermatous, some- 
what narrowed below the mouth, with fragments of a peristome. 
(DickanoLoma Renauld. Already treated in Part L) 
Dicnemotoma Ren. in Rey. bryol., 1901, p. 86. 
Internal cells of lamina extending to the base, only the lowest juxta- 
costal ones elongate ; hyaline border narrow, conspicuous ; leaves frequently 
hair-pointed. Habit peculiar, not dicranoid. Peristome-teeth divided in 
the upper part only. 
KEY TO THE SPECIEs. 
Stems slender, elongate, flexuose, more or less prostrate, usually pale below ; hair- 
i n wanting on many leaves, in others very fine, hyaline, short, 
exuose : i ie es i rs 1. Sieberianum 
Stems more robust, short, scarcely flexuose, more or less erect, dark brown below. 
Leaves usually all ending in a longer, much stouter, yellowish hair-point 
2. incanum. 
There is entire confusion in the “ Handbook of the New Zealand Flora ” 
about D. incanum, where it is cited as “ Dicranum incanum Mitt. MSS. 
(Leucoloma).”” The only locality given for it there is “ Northern Island, 
Sinclair.”” And the plant is described as differing from D. Sieberianum in 
having all the leaves acuminate and not piliferous, except the perichaetial 
leaves, with some slight differences in the seta and fruit. But Sinclair’s 
plant is only D. Sieberianum, and was not considered by Mitten to belong 
