BRYACEAE. 217° 
unnamed plant in Brown’s herbarium, which I refer here, shows. some 
approach towards B. eximium. It has been collected from only one or two 
localities in the South Island. 
24. Bryum eximium Mitt. in Hook. f., Handb. N.Z. FL, p. 440 (1867). 
Syn. B. megamorphum C. M. in Hedwig., vol. 37, p. 99 (1898). 
This remarkably fine plant will, I fear, ultimately have to be looked 
upon as a striking marsh form of B. laevigatum. As remarked above, the 
leaves are distant throughout, widely ee horizontal or even slightly 
reflexed, and very long; the stems may be 6 
Magnificent specimens occur in Brown’s herbarium, with ie 6 in. in 
height, and in good fruit. The setae are sometim regate, 5-7 c 
long, the capsules 4-6 mm. or even 7 mm. long, but se iii differing 
ohare a those of B. Hutton. It has been found, I believe, only in 
rshes r Dunedin, and Styx marsh, near Christchurch, in addition to 
the localities mentioned in the Handbook. 
INCERTAE SEDIS. 
Bryum flaccidum Brid. ? Fl. N.Z., ii, 85; Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 444.— 
I nee exainined this in Hooker’s Sheen, as well as Wilson’s specimen, 
and am not able to form a definite opinion on it; the material is very 
small. It 1 is scarcely B. flaccidum, if that is, as C. Mueller (Syn., i, 281) 
a it, a variety of B. capillare ; and it is still further from B. caespiticium. 
I think it must remain an unsolved problem at ogee It is probably a 
weak form of one of the described mperis es. ; 6 are 
soba erg _BXCLUDED_ ‘SPECIES. 
Kh Be deinen Brid. —The specimen ‘of this in - Wilson’ s fectesnice! is 
certainly B. torquescens B. -& 8. B.:anter m does, however, occur in 
Tasmania, so there is no reason why it should not be found in New 
Zealand. 
B. murale ? in herb. Wils. (Buchanan, 1028) is a small fin of 
B. thigeongator nC. M. 
atropurpureum W. & M.—I have examined the Ag sig in Wilson’s 
= Hooker’ s herbaria referred to this species. I find them all iors 
o B. dichotomum Hedw. oreett one (Hook., No. 355, Nu Z.), which i 
acae form of B. chrysoneuron 
ceolatum (Schimp MS. in herb., Tauranga, Ch. Kuight, No. 108," 
is B. Geckatineen 
suboeneum — mpe & C. M, Tauranga, Halton, 107 ; Knight, 1867, 
No. 143 ; both in herb. Schimp., ‘are not B. suboeneum (hich i is probably 
B. pachytheca), but B. dichotomum. 
B. pyrothecium Hpe. & C. M.—All the New Zealand specimens in herb. 
- Kew are B. torquescens, from which B. pyrothecium itself does not probably 
differ. 
|B. purpureum Séhimp. ., MS. in herb., Wairoa, N.Z. ; Knight, 1867, 
No. 114; is a purple and very pretty form of B. dichotomeim 
