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220” BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
B. patens Brid.—See note under B. papillata. 
B. iformis Brid.—Included by Brotherus, Paris, &c., on the strength 
of the apbeed | in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 29 (1896), p. 443, by Beckett. This 
was, however, an error, as pointed out by R. Brown (op cit., vol. 32, p. 137). 
original plant on which the record was based; the determination as 
. pomiformis was a slip. 
B. Readeriana Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vol. 17, p. 268 (1884) = Breutelia 
pendula. 
Other species in the Handbook belong under either Breutelia or Philonotis. 
Conostomum Sw. in Schrad. N. Journ. Bot., i, pt. 3, p. 26. 
mall genus of moses, differing from Bartramia principally in the 
peristome teeth being united at their apices into a cone; the capsule is 
usually a little more elongate, with a curved beak to the lid; and the leaves. 
are small, rigid, usually “closely imbricated and regularly arranged in in five 
series, so that the stems are more or less pentagonal. This character, 
ae is not found in all species. 
R. Brown ter, has described five new ater but four of these certainly: 
and in all probability ied fifth, belong to C. pusillum, of whi 
says that he has seen no specimens. He quite correctly judges that 
according to the dead of that species it must differ from those which 
he describes as new, since, as he says, “‘ This species will be easily determined 
by the margins of the leaves bring recurved and the double serration on 
them.” But this description, taken from the Handbook, and followed by 
other authors, is quite misleading, and indeed incorrect. The leaf-margin 
in C. pusillum is usually plane, or very slightly and narrowly recurved. 
denticulate for much of its length, it is never, so far as J have seen it, doubly 
denticulate. 
Key TO THE SPECIES. 
Nerve 4-4 width of leaf, ill defined Bea es a -- 1. australe. 
Nerve 4~} width of leaf, well defined ks - ay .. 2. pusillum. 
1. Conostomum australe Sw. agian op. et loc. cit. (1806); Fl. N.Z., 
ii, 87 ; Handb. N Z. Fl., p. 4 
Philonotis australis Mitt. in Journ. Linn, Soc., Bot c.; 19, OL 
en (nee Philonotis eiaialia ce Jaeg, Adumbr., 3, 551), 
A considerably larger _ than the following, and at once recognized 
by the broader, larger leaves with very wide ill-defined nerve. The upper 
cells are usually more ee and more irregular. eee describes the 
leaf-margin as widely recurved and doubly serrate, but this is an error ; 
it is plane except near ee apex, where it is sometimes aaa recurved ; 
and, as mentioned above for C. Fees it is not doubly serrate, but, like 
that, slightly and singly dane 
-Itis not uncommon at high seca: 
