162 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. / 
ANOEcTANGIUM (Hedw.), Bry. eur., fasc. 29-30, 1846. 
Only one species has been recorded from New Zealand —viz., 
A. compactum Schwaegr. The distribution of A. compactum is, however, 
entirely within the Northern Hemisphere, and the New Zealand species is 
definitely though not widely distinct, and is here described as A. Bellii 
Broth. 
Anoectangium Bellii Broth., MS. in sched. sp. nov. 
A. compacto Schwaegr. affine; differt foliis multo angustioribus, 
linearibus vel lineari-lanceolatis, peracutis, et nervo dorso minute distinct 
scaberulo. 
A densely tufted plant, compact and abundantly radiculose in the lower 
part, much resembling species of Weisia and Gymnostomum, but differing 
vey acute leaves, with a sharp point t mostly formed by the pobre” or 
nail are rendered opaque, each one being crowned on both fartaoes by 
2-5 rather high papillae, only a very few at extreme base being elongate, 
smooth and pellucid. Margin plane. Perichaetial leaves red a and 
rigidly nal» from a sheathing base. Capsule gymnostomo 
Hab.—Mount Ida, alt. 3,500 ft., Otago, coll. D. Petrie, de Siete 
No. 669 in Herb. Beckett. Mr. Petrie also sent it me from Rangi Taipo, 
Ampuipium (Nees) Schimper emend. in Bry, eur. Consp. (1855). 
Amphidium cyathicarpum ag Broth. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflan- 
zenfam., Musci, i, 460 (190 
Syn. Zygodon i. Mont. in Ann. Sci. Nat. wre p. 106; 
Handb. Fl., p. 434. Z. integrifolius C. & Beckett i 
Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol.. 25, p. 292 (1892), et C. M. in Hed dwig., 
vol. 37, p. 133. Z. compactu ~ M. se cit. » P. 134 (1898). 
in the gama a the nerve bein ing median, not basal, and in the very 
short seta and hardly exserted capsule, which is pachydermatous, and when 
wide-mouthed and urceolate, quite ostomo 
_The single N Z. species is a nes widespread one in 1 the subtropical i 
asmania. 
It sleaaly, upon Tm A. Mougeotii (Bry. eur.) of the Northern Hemi- 
sphere, but is (usually at least) autoicous, and has extremely narrow, 
ligulate, flexuose leaves, which are either entire above or indistinctly notched, 
or _oomygeaes bas markedly, remotely denticulate ; very variable on the 
same specim 
I have inal gatherings of Z. integrifolius C. M. & Beck. (redescribed 
by C. M. in Hedwigia, vol. 37), ex herb. Beckett. It was supposed to 
differ from A. cyathicarpum in the entire leaves without hyaline basal cells, 
and C. Mueller adds that the seta is ‘‘ campylopodiaceo-flexuoso.” I find 
