202 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
Brachymenium Preissianum Hampe, Icones musc., t. 25 (1844). 
Syn. Brachymenium coarctatum Hook. - Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 437 
(nec B. coarctatum (C. M.) Bry. jav., 2). 
A small plant with densely tufted oe Bayou sina with — 
leaves having stout excurrent — and capsule suberect o 
inclined, deep red, ovate, widest near eh and gradua wallyh rae 
above, with small mouth and highly conical narrow lid (this is Suuaiay 
abnormally elongate and rostellate). 
It is the Brachymenium coarctatum of the Handb., but not of the. Bry. 
javanica. I have examined the setae in the Kew collection on which 
the above record (by Mitten) is based. It is a scrap only, with two 
capsules, and it is noted that it seisstitiacs all the material that Mitten had. 
Although extremely near to B. coarctatum, it differs in well-defined 
characters. The leaf-cells are ssituanly denser, shorter, more incrassate 
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the spaces between the teeth at base are about equal to the width of the 
base of the tooth ; the endostome membrane is about half the hag of the 
teeth, with extremely rudimentary processes when at all present.* 
meet ; the basal membrane of endostome is not much more than a quart r 
the height of the teeth, and the processes are well developed, Bree, ala 
scarcely split, approaching the height of the outer teeth. 
Mr. D. Petrie has sent me abundant specimens of this moss from near 
Auckland, and also from the neighbourhood of Oamaru; while Mr. Gray 
fore, not to be infrequent, but it does not appear in our national collections, 
with the exception of the specimen referred to above. Its further distri 
bution is Tasmania and Australia; herbarium specimens under this nam 
from South Africa belong to other species. 
Anomosryum Schimp., Syn., ed. i} p. 382 (1860). 
Differs from Brywm in the habit, the leaves being small, closely page 
and usually julaceous, often cymbiform and obtuse, with very narro 
often vermicular areolation. 
Anomobryum Harriottii (R. Br. ter.) Dixon comb. nov. 
Syn. Bryum Harriottii R. Br. ter. in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 31, p. 453 
(1899). Anomobryum densum Dixon in Bull. Torr . bot. Clu b, 
42, 103 (1915). 
I described and figured this species in the above work, and need fa 
do more than refer the student to it. From an examination of the type 
of R. Brown’s species of Bryum I now find that it has been sinaay | 
to docks the accuracy of this drawin wing. peris' me in g 
condition from “ J; in herb. Schimp., which = inc doabe 0. specimen 
her, moreover, describes the teeth as Bry. jav. figure also shows 
the basal me much more than height of the teeth, con 
description in the text and in C. M. Synopsis, _ they are ibed as half the height 
of the teeth, which agrees with my observat (Fleischer, however, describes it as 
‘aasiGiaarnti 3 the rath gs this may be derived fa from the above figure, or there may be 
height.) 
