FISSIDENTACEAE. 103 
Hooker has annotated the Kew copy of the Fl. N.Z. “ drawings only ”) ; 
the South African and South American plants referred to it in the Hand- 
book were later separated off by Mitten (cf. M. Austr.-am., p. 596). The 
New Zealand plant exists in Herb. ae at the a Museum, in the 
form of three stems labelled ‘‘ N.Zd., 1850, Colenso.”’ They show, as do 
Wilson’s drawings, the “ eterno ” i Newer very diaitictiy, the 
leaves being almost entirely composed of the vaginant Jamina, the args 
laminae forming a short point in the leaves of the sterile stems, while 
those of the short ete stems they form a very narrow almost canola 
rigid cuspidate point, approximately equal in length to but far narrower 
than the vaginant ee the dorsal lamina being almost or entirely sup- 
pressed. 
have examined the type of F. pygmaeus Tayl. (Swan R., Jas. Drum- 
mond, ae at Kew, and there can be no doubt that it and F. brevifolius 
H. f. & W. are the same thing. . pygmaeus Tayl. is antedated by 
F.. pygmaeus Hornsch., and the name was altered to F. Taylori by C. Miiller 
in the Synopsis ; this must therefore have priority over F. brevifolius 
H. f. & W. 
pecimens in Herb. Hook. at Kew labelled F. brevifolius, from Victoria, 
Australia, collected by Miiller do not belong here at all, but to a species of 
Semilimbidium. And the two specimens “ “Tasman nia, Archer,’’ determined 
as F. Taylori by Mitten equally belong to another section altogether, not 
Heterocaulon. 
F. ramiger C. M. & Beck. also is identical with F. Taylori ; in fact, the 
plate of that species in the erase ecy might very well have been made 
from Wilson’s drawings of F. brevifoliu 
Colenso’s plant would probably re collected in the North Island. 
F. es is recorded from Lyttelton Hills, on clay; Malvern Hills, on 
sod-ban 
Semilimbidium C. M. 
7, Fissidens vittatus H. f. & W., Fl. Tasm., ii, 167, t. 171 (1860). 
Distrib—New Zealand (teste Brotherus, |] es p- 356); Tasmania ; 
Australia. I have seen no New | le aland specimens, and do not know the 
Frstoad of, as they actually are, very pellucid). The dorsal par is 
extremely narrow towards the base of the = and more pellucid. The 
capsule is more or less inclined and asymmetri 
e only species with which this could an be confused are F. aniso- 
lates (q.v.) and F. leptocladus, which is very similar in the dry state, 
but when moist has the leaves complanate, not falcate; they have not 
the wide, ventricose vaginant lamina, the areolation is a little less —— 
and opaque, the border in the upper part stronger, and on the vaginan 
lamina not intramarginal. 
