106 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
The “ Handbook of the New Zealand Flora” describes F. pallidus as 
having the “ margin quite entire, nerve continuous to the apex’’; but the 
apex of the leaf is often subdenticulate, and the nerve actually ceases 
distinctly short of the point. 
I have not been able to see a specimen of F. Knightii Reichdt. The 
plant so named by Mitten at Kew is a Bryoidium, and belongs to 
F. leptocladus. I have, however, no practical doubt, from the description, 
that it is F. pall dus. The author only compares it with F. capitatus 
H. f. & W. (F. oblongifolius var. 8), separating it by the dioicous aan 
and the different leaf and capsule (“durch eine andere Blatt-und 
Frucht-form ”). In these characters it agrees, however, with F. pallidus 
with which it also accords, e deser., in the colour, ‘ pallidi-virentes,” the 
cell-measurements, &c. The author also particularizes the highly — 
— on the interior of the peristome-teeth, which is a marked characte 
. pallidus. The only discrepancy is in the description of the vals 
“ chlorophyllosis,” which hardly = hae to deemed mature cee, of 
7 pall ; , 
it quite safe to reduce it. The labelty ct for F, Kniglnn was “ Auckla nd ; 
ight.” 
13. Fissidens so gure H. f. & W. in Lond. Journ. Bot., iii (1844), 
p. 547; F i, 62, t. 83: Siena N.Z. Fl., p. 407. Var. 'B capitatus 
H. f. & Ws FL NZ, loc. ¢ 
Syn. F. Fiat Cc ey un in herb., et Gen. Musc. Fr., p. 68 
(nomen). ; 
I have examined the t of F. Zurnianus (Neu Secland, leg. Zurn, 
he ; it is certainly inseparable from the acute-leaved form of 
F. lial ; I do not understand why C. Miiller places it under 
§ Serrid 
F. sblongsfiliee differs from F. pallidus in the chlorophyllose, = 
cells (5-8 ), and other points as indicated under that species. It is mo 
like F. asplenioides, but differs in the autoicous inflorescence, the leaves 
more rigid, much less crisped when dry, typically indeed little altered—but 
this is by no means constant—also, as a rule, the deeper green colour, an 
page eb to the authors, the thinner seta and smaller capsule. The nerve 
n both species is stout, pellucid, and usually nied sinuose in the upper 
saat the margin apparently entire till viewed with a high magnification, 
when it is seen to be finely and regularly crenulate on the projecting cells. 
The var. capitatus differs from the type in the leaf-apex g acute 
(but the character is often not well marked, and intermediate forms occu r), 
and in the position of the male flowers, which i is “‘ terminal with the seta,” 
while in the type the male flowers are axillary on the fertile stems. 
Distrib—New Zealand; Tasmania; Australia. ave examined 
specimens from “ Paramatta, F. Miiller,” at Kew, which are quite correct, 
as well as Tasmanian specimens. They all belong to the type. 
14. Fissidens Cay Aa Hedw., M. frond. iii, 65, t. 28 (1909); 
Handb. N.Z. FI., 
ier" Dicranum ee Sw., Fi. ind. occ., p. 1770 (1795). 
F. ligulatus H. f. & W., Fl. N-Z., ii, 63, t . 84, 
I have not thought it necessary to give the full s f this 
oes. which is almost universally distributed through the subtropical 
