. RHIZOGONIACEAE, 223 
Wad an bartramioides (Hook.) He Asahi ones univ., ii, 31 (1827) ; 
: Fl. N.Z., ii, 88; Handb. N.Z. Fl., 
Syn. Bryum bartramioides Hook., Muse. exot., t. 18. 
short seta, so that the fruit is quite concealed in the upper leaves and a 
easily _ unnoticed. The leaves are much like those of Rhizogoninm 
spinoform 
he itibtion of the species is usually given as New Zealand and the 
Sandwich Isles. It is recorded from the latter by Gaudichaud in Freycinet’s 
work on the ti ai of the “Uranie” and “ hysicienne,” as collected by 
Leprorueca Schwaegr., Suppl., ii, pt. 2, p. 135. 
Leptotheca Gaudichaudii Schwaegr., op. et. loc. cit. (1824). : 
Syn. Aulacomnium Gaudichaudii Mitt. in Kew Journ. Bot., viii (1856), 
b 
. 262; Handb. N.Z. Fl, p. 436. Bryum Eve: R. Br. ter. in 
Trans, N.Z. Inst., vol. 31, p. 456 i we 
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Letitia differs from Aulacomnium in t cells, and the excurrent 
nerve, which in the perichaetial leaves forms a long arista. The capsule 
is cylindric, erect, striate-plicate when dry. De nsely tufted brown brood- 
filaments often occur in the axils of the upper leave: 
It somewhat resembles Rhizogonium mnioides in fee but the ae 
Fn ol leaves, and especially the capsule, will at once distinguis 
AULACOMNIUM Schwaegr., Suppl., ii, pt. 1, t. 215 (1827). 
Aulacomnium palustre (L.) Schwaegr., op. et. loc. cit.; Bry. eur., iv, 
t. 405. 
This widely distributed paludal moss was recorded by me for ot 
Yoainall in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., xl, have not seen any furt 
records of it. The flexuose obiong-lanceolate leaves, toothed at recs 
shortly and widely pointed or obtuse, with i sodiametrical, highly papillose ~ 
sea and thin nerve ceasing oldie apex, is, when once known, easily recog- 
zable. The capsule is very similar to that of oT Gaudichaudii, 
but j is inclined wre urved. It is not often produced : 
The Mount Cook plant was a slender form’ with still, laxly set leaves. 
4—Bryology, Pt. IV. 
