112 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
Key TO THE SpEctis, 
( Leaf- -margin incurved above, nerve excurrent, cells minute, obscn 2 
1. , Leaf-margin plane or slightly reflexed Fanti nerve vanishing at ht the ames 
| apex, cells rounded, distinct and usually pellucid si mouthir. 
2. Peristomate i e ae . on 1. viridula. 
fcpmcotarns at 5 <i ms AS 1. var. Secihosiom A. 
1. Weisia viridula (L.) Hedw., Fund. ii, 90 (1781). 
Syn. Bryum viridulum L., Sp. Pl., ii, 1119. W. controversa Hedw., 
Descr. iii, 12 eset ; Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 404. W. flavipes 
H.f. & W., Fl. i, 59; Handb. N.Z. Fi. , p. 404. TLrichostomum 
sciophilum C. M. : in ia xxXvii, 119 (1898). Trichostomum 
mutabile H. f. & W., Fl. N.Z. ii, 72; Handb. N.Z. FL, p. 416 
(nec Bruch). 
Nov. var. gymnostoma Dixon. Theca omnino gymnostoma. 
aS ipo ent patulum Wils., MS. in Handb. N.Z. FL. p. 404 
Cain en). G. inflecum Tayl. in Lond. Journ. Bot., v (1846), p. 43. 
Weisia inflexa Mitt. in Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc., Victoria, 1882, 
AE ce — inflecum Broth. in Engler and Prant 
Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 26, p. 299. % Gym. wa imakaririense 
R. Br. ter., op. a loc. cit. % Gym. Stevensii R. Br. ter., 
Cc. cit. : 
far greater differences than those here suggested are found among the 
ra an of W. wiridula. In the leaves it differs but little from 
ulum, but = longer, bright-yellow seta, the capsule 
satvnisk wa young, bright wn and striate when mature, with a red 
orifice, with long and fine shake beak to the lid, make it very distinct in 
ruit, even in the gymnostomous form. The lid varies in aca g but is 
usually very long, and more slender and acute than in H. patulum. 
e gymnostomous plant which I have here described as a variety has 
given rise to much of the synonymy cited above ; it differs, however, in no 
other way aye the type (though perhaps tending to have a shorter capsule) ; ; 
and I have th forms sent in the ore gathering from Mauriceville, 
Wairarapa, a Mr. Gray, forming separate tufts, but not mag any 
other differences. Ju udging from done oeynce material sent me b y Mr. D 
Petrie, it would appear to be very common in the aebbodchied of 
Auckland, perhaps more so than the type. 
I have examined original specimens of Gymnostomum inflecum Tayl. 
(Swan River, Drummond), and I cannot separate them in any way from 
this plant (the anagenawen form). Wilson compares it with W. mucro- 
nata, and Brotherns places it in the section of Hymenostomum with leaf- 
margins ‘ d them, however, quite sufficiently often incurved to 
present no ‘difficulty in including the plant here; the capsule and seta 
quite agree, 
