BRYACEAE. 213 
5. ne puree ae Broth. in Oefyv. af Finska ° Vet.-Soc. Foerh., xl, 
175 (1898). 
Syn. B. ee R. Br. ter. in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 31, P. 450 
(1899 
This is a very distinct species, allied to B. crassum, but with well-marked 
characters. The leaves are equally arranged along the much taller stems, 
not comose; much more narrowly and finely acuminate, with the nerve 
detract aaa oe neck, and is of a deep lb ac Ug the lid 
and solid, the teeth deep orange, broad, strongly bordered, internally very 
rag! trabeculate, externally densel ely poceyt reed striolate (so strongly 
that the lamellae are hard to see inner membrane high, deep orange. 
The teeth sometimes appear to be obtuse, but this is because they are 
sy Se incurved or hamate at the tip, where they are shortly and finely 
cuspidate. tg! minute. Cilia appendiculate. 
B. B nt R. Br. ter. is the same thing, a rather robust form, often 
with long previ tic. It is altogether a fine plant, and would appear to 
be a very rare and endemic species. 
8. Trichophora. 
6. Bryum obconicum Hornsch. e Bruch & Schimp., Bry, eur., iv, 
tab. 367 (1839); Fl. N.Z., u, 85; Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 440. ‘ 
Syn. B. be iter Tayl in Land Journ. Bot., v, ‘54 (1846) ; 
B. contortum Stirt. in Proc. N.H. Soc. Glasgow, ii, 187 ast 6). 
The species of this group, of which B. capillare LL. may be considered 
the type, are marked by a softer texture of the leaves than is usual in 
the genus, so that the leaves are much contracted when dry, and often 
spirally contorted round the stem * ey are also much less acuminate 
than in most of the preceding speci s, being more or less obovate, wide 
at the top and very shortly euspidate ‘or even obtuse, — generally have 
the rather thin nerve excurrent in a long, flexuose arista. y are 
usually narrowly but distinctly poctiee. with a few small but distinct teeth 
near apex; the cells rather lax, thin-walled and pellucid. 
B. obconicum differs from B. capillare and B. torgu ee in having the 
leaves firmer in texture, not or little spirally cited n dry, with a 
m Stirt. is one of these, and might almost equally be referred to 
- _capillae, a species which is recorded from Tasmania; but the leaves 
perhaps nearer to B. obconicum. It agrees exactly with eae 
ie ‘Wilson’ s herbarium referred originally to B. ereberrimum Tayl., and 
afterwards to B. obconicum. Some of the plants of B. creberrimum in 
Wilson’s herbarium are B. affine, while others are B. obconicum ; the latter, 
as indeed most or all the New —— agai I haves seen, belong to 
eo deen be 
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