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avec des feuilles apiculées, c’est |’ E. laevigata Bruch.” It must not be 
deduced from this last statement that the smooth calyptra is always corre- 
lated with the pointed leaves; Limpricht in fact describes the plant and 
figures it with pointed leaves, but makes a point of the scabrous tip of the 
calyptra. There remains, therefore, not a scrap of foundation for separating 
the New Zealand eee from H. vulgaris. It is probably widely distributed 
throughout New Zealand 
GRIMMIACEAE. 
PryCHOMITRIUM Fuernr. in FI., 1829, p. 19. 
Syn. Glyphomitrium Brid., Mant. M., p. 31, p-p. (1819). Brachy- 
steleum Reichenb., Consp. (1828), p. 34.* 
So far as I am aware, no species of this very distinct genus have hitherto 
been Sg a to New Zealand, though several are recorded from Australia 
and Tasmania. I find, however, in Brown’s herbarium two ighly 
Sitertetang plants, described as new species of Grimmia, which belong here ; 
one of them, G. Turneri R. Br. ter., being identical with P. australe (Hampe, 
as Brachysteleum), the other, G. Barrii R. Br. ter., a distinct new species. 
The plants of this genus are generally readily known by their compact, 
blackish tufts usually growing on rocks, with leaves of dense, rather solid 
_ texture, generally obtuse and often cucullate at apex, strongly curled when 
dry, and by the usually abundant capsules of Grimmia form but exserted 
on long, erect setae; and especially by the long, mitriform calyptra 
covering most of the capsule, like that of Rhacomitrium, but plicate fn 
top to agony 
The two New Zealand species will readily . ioe kas from one 
another ay fe following characters, among other 
ufts large, ?in. high, robust; leaves broad above, subobtuse, 
Bn at cucullate at apex, but not incurved. Capsule Geren s 
ellipt .- 1. australe. 
uch b smaller in ll its parts, scarcely hin. in height 5 leaves narrow 
strongly incur ed, hooked subula. Capsule narrower, with 
a seen tapering base . 2 Barris. 
i eo australe italics) oe Adumbr. i, p. 383 (1872-73). 
Syn. Brachysteleum australe Hampe in Linn., 1856, Pp. ig Rory 
Turneri R. Br. ter. in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 35, p. rishi 
Pt, Adamsonii Jaeg. Adumbr. i, 381. Glyphomitrium  edeniia 
Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., iv, 73 (1859). 
Gathered by envi on rock on the north side of Mount Torlesse, in 
January 1900, in which habitat he states it is common. Also by Berggren, 
Tauranga, North Island, 1874 (No. 1044). 
Distrib. —Australia—Victorian Alps ; Melbourne. 
Brown’s discovery of this plant, which agrees well with the type in 
Hampe’s herbarium in the British Museum, is especially interesting because 
it has not been collected elsewhere except in the original locality by 
F. Mueller. 
The te curled when dry, and the areolation, lacking the sinuose 
basal cells of Rhacomitrium, will separate it at once from R. crispulum v 
rupestre. 
} nigra R. Br. ter (MS. in herb.), from Mount bert is also 
this Hissar S as is also Glyphomitrium Adamsonii Mitt., from original 
speci S in Herb. eS 
* For the choice of generic name cf. Cardot in Rev. bryol., 1913, pp. 41, 43. 
