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222, BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
6. ee ae. spiniforme (L:.) Bruch in Flora, xxix, 134 (1846) ; 
N.Z., ii, 116; Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 485. 
Syn. Hypnum spiniforme finn: + Spy Puy peter. 
The rhost widely spread species, occurring in practically all the tropical 
and subtropical regions of the world. Curiously, it does not seem to 
so common in 
numerous collections of mosses I have received from there I have seen no 
specimens of this species. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
R. subbasilare (Schwaegr.) == Goniobryum pellucidum. 
Gontopryum Lindb. in Oefv. af K. Vet.-Akad. Foerh., xxi, 606 (1864). 
Separated from Rhizogonium principally on account of the areolation, of 
lax cells, which are not small and isodiametrical as in that genus, but 
elongated, lax, and prosenchymatous 
There are three species, G. pelievidiees (Mitt.), G. retieulatum H. f. & 
W., and G. subbasilare (Hook.) Lindb.; and the New Zealand plant has 
figured at least two of these names, but the first is the only species that 
actually, as far as is known, occurs in New Zealand. 
Goniobryum eure my (Mitt.) Broth. in Engl. & Prantl., Pflanzenfam., 
Musci, i, 621 (1904). 
Syn. Photinophyllum pellucidum Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., 
x, p. 175 (1868). Rhizogonium pellucidum Jaeg., Adumbr., i, 
683. R. subbasilare H. f., Handb. N.Z. Fi., p. 485, nec 
R. subbasilare Schimp., nec Hypnum subbasilare Schwaegr. 
Readily known by the basal fruit, and the narrowly lanceolate leaves, 
doubly spinose at margin, with lax preety rhomboid-hexagonal cells. 
is, I think, a not very common species. 
The synonymy is at first sight rather puzzling, but is easily explained. 
Schwaegrichen described a Hypnum subbasilare, which is Rhizogonium 
joides k.) Schim: is 
mnior p- Hooker described a Hypnum su 
Goniobryum subbasilare Lindb. The Handbook refers the present plant by 
error to t speci Rhizogonium subbasilare p.; bw 
this las = 
that species is principally or entirely a Fuegian plant, and does not 
occur in New Zealand. Both it and @. reticulatum (H. f. & W.) Lindb. 
are distinguished from our species by the single serratures of the leaves. 
Cryproropium Brid., Bryol. univ., ii, 30 (1827). 
This remarkable Tose beautiful monotypic page = rather a taxonomic 
pes and I feel far from certain that it is in its right place in = 
and am inclined to think that it should be pinced ™ 
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