144 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
§ Zygotrichia, 
5. Tortula Petriei Broth. in litt. e Beckett in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 29, 
p. 441, tab. 25 (189 
Syn. 7. ea R. Br. ter. in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 30, p. 406 
(1898). 
In deference to Brotherus I retain this in Bg Wetec though I find it 
difficult to assign any reasons why it should not be included in ss aaa! 
Though the stems are short it is a robust plant—one ‘of the finest and mos 
distinct, in fact, of the New Zealand species. The leaves are large, cee 
bordered with a very broad, strong, whitish, yellow, or brown band of narrow 
elongate cells, concave, broadly pointed, coarsely toothed at apex, with the 
strong red nerve us sually running out into a stout excurrent point. The 
“oe is long, the capsule large, the peristome large and red with a very long 
Petri¢ collected it in Otago, and again on Kelly’s Hill, Westland; Brow 
on Mount Torlesse and near Broken River. I do not know any other ace 
It appears to be rare, and is a highly prises saecies standing quite by 
itself, and most nearly, while distantly, allied t ‘or two South American 
plants—e .g., T. denticulata (Wils.) Mitt., which” ee has a far narrower 
pene and larger, pellucid cells, and T. Kunzeana (C. M.) Mitt., which, while 
uch hike etriet on a small scale, is in every way smaller and with quite 
‘auto cells. 
Brown’s specimen of 7. torlessensis is identical with Petrie’s ae 
T. Petriet will be found figured by Brotherus—Musci, i, fig. 284. 
§ Syntrichia. 
6. Tortula flavinervis Dixon comb. nov. 
Syn. Trichostomum grossirete Broth. & Dixon in Journ, Linn. Soc. 
(Bot.), xl, 444, tab. 20 (1912). 
This plant, collected sterile by the late Mr. James Murray, and described 
_ by us as a Trichostomum, appears to me now to be rather a Tortula. It has 
recurved saey : the cell-structure also resembles that of some species 
of Syntrichia. It is readily known by the long leaves, 4-4-5 mm. in length, 
stout nerve, longly excurrent in a straight, fragile, rigid, cuspidate yellowish 
point; the cells are 12-18 uw, the basal lax and elongate, as in most species 
of haters: but not reaching so high in the leaf as in man 
The original specific name is Eee by Tortula _grossirets Card. 
(Not. thie in Bull. Herb. Boiss., 2me. sér., vi, 6), so that I have been 
pie a ee the ec pias It is probably eee nearly allied 
a Tasmanian moss which appears to have been 
— and a very stout nerve-excurrent in a very short stout yellowish 
7. Tortula papillosa Wils., Bryol. Brit., p. 135; Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 418. 
_ R. Brown (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 30, p. 400) states that ce New Zealand 
- moss is not identical with mS British species, from which “ it differs in the 
gemmae being e, the nerve not being papillose, and the upper jose 
Rees while in “the British plant the gemmae are stalked and the nerve 
