104 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
8. Fissidens anisophyllus Dixon in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), xl, 442, t. 21. 
The student may be referred to the above publication for this species. 
Later specimens collected by Mr. Gray on Mount Bruce, Wairarapa, show 
the plant slightly larger and better developed with the leaves rather more 
strongly falcate when dry. The very faint border, often almost entirely 
being chlorophyllose, more or less pellucid, and distinct. F. inclinabilis 
differs in the areolation, especially at base, and the leaves apiculate with 
the excurrent nerve. 
The Mount Bruce specimens, which I refer with some slight uncertainty 
to this species, have wider, shorter leaves, but in areolation closely resemble 
F. anisophyllus, and have in no way the dark opaque cells of F. vittatus. 
It is a very moot point whether F. anisophyllus should not b placed 
in the § Bryoidium. 
9. Fissidens abbreviatus Mitt. in Seemann, Fl. Vit., p. 385 (1873). 
a 
not very acute apex, which may, indeed, be obtuse or subobtuse. The 
narrow, rather pellucid nerve generally ceases quite appreciably below 
though very near to the apex. The capsule is minute, suberect on a 
short, slender seta. The dorsal lamina of the leaf is narrowed below, 
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§ Aloma C0. M. 
10. Fissidens tenellus H. f. & W., Fl. N.Z., ii, 61, t. 83 (1856). 
Syn. F. leptochaete C. M., MS. in herb., et Gen. Musc. Fr., p. 62 (nomen), 
nec F. leptochaete Dus. in Arkiv fér Bot., Bd. vi, No, 8, p. 5 (1906). 
_ This species is known immediately from all the New Zealand species 
but the next by the small size, delicate pellucid leaves without any border, 
