188 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
M. involutifolium (Hook. & Grev.) Schwaegr., is given by Brotherus 
s Musci,”’ p. 488) as from Australia and New Zealand; but Dr. Brotherus 
orms me that he has seen no as Lanner specimens. The New Zealand 
cont has probably crept in by erro 
M. spirale Hampe, MS., e Mitt. in Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 
1882, p. 63 (nomen Saal is M. Weymouthav. 
M. submicrophyllam Hampe, MS. in herb., is M. eucalyptorum. 
ScHLoTHEemmi14 Brid., Mant. Musce., p. 114 (1849). 
well-defined genus, of somewhat large dimensions in the southern 
cnical and temperate zone, is only represented in New Zealand by two 
species, one of them being only found in and endemic to sae Sey Island. 
t resembles Macromitrium in general habit, generally forming close 
compact tufts or mats, brownish when old, with the leaves closely spirally 
twisted when dry, more or less lingulate or oblong-lingulate, generally 
tugulose above ; it differs markedly from Macromitrium in the calyptra, 
which is _ neither plicate nor hairy, though usually scabrous or 
hispid at the ape 
1. Schlotheimia Brownii Brid., Br ee univ., i, 799 (1826); Schwaeg., 
Suppl., ii, t. 167 (1826) ; FI. N. Z., ,11; Handb. N.Z. Fl 427. 
Syn. S. Bailey: Broth. in Oefv. oi Finska Vet.-Soc. Foerh., vol. 33, 
p- 198 (1890). S. Knight C. M. in Hedwig., vol. 37, p. 142 (1898). 
A scotia species in New Zealand and Australia. Watts and White- 
legge (Cens. Musc. Australens., ii, 107, in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. for 1905) 
say, under S. Browni, “‘ Broth. Bryales gives N.Z. only, and in a letter 
he says, I have not seen S. Brownii from Australia, and doubt if it is to be 
found there. Probably all the Australian records should be changed to 
S. Baileyi.” A remarkable statement, since the type of S. Brownit was 
collected at Port Jackson in Australia by Brown jaa is cited by Watts 
and Whitelegge) ! 
On the ous hand, C. Mueller separates his New Zealand S. Knightit 
n. sp. from S. Brownii, giving it a description which would certainly cover 
got ia so se 
erus founds his S. Baileyi on a oR plant, leg. Bailey. 
This z hess not seen; but Watts and Whitelegge describe it as plentiful 
in New South Wales, and I have a specimen det. Brotherus = rae N.S.W. 
Mosses, 1273). appears to me quite identical with S. Browns 
rugulosis, , 
suleato, et calyptra haud scabra facile sping ”  Watts’s 1273 shows 
no difference in the colour of the tufts from many specimens of S. Browni 
[ have seen. As to the other characters ae C.M.; Syn., 4, 755, 
8. Brownit as having “ folia alis parum rugulosis . . .  Peri- 
chaetia conf conformia . theca sicca plicata calyptra 
vix scabra”’ (thus agreeing with _—* description of S. Baileyi). 
The only separating character remaining i that C. Mueller describes 
the sot an bang, as seid Hoothsran that ofS. Bail } as short. The measure- 
ment given. however (4 mm.), is no shorter than frequently occurs in New 
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