234 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
CATHARINEAEA Ehrh. in Hannovy. Mag., 1780, p. 933. 
Syn. Atrichum P. Beauv., Prodr., p. 42. 
Catharinaea Muelleri Hampe & C. M. in Linn., 26, p. 500 (1853). 
Syn. Polytrichum angustatum H. f. & W., Fl. N.Z., ii, 94, and Hook. 
., Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 453 (nec P. angustatum Brid.). Atrichum 
lagulatum Mitt. in Kew one Bot., 8 (1856), p. 262. Catharinaea 
lepto-cylindrica C. M. in Hedwig., xxxvi, 338 (1897). 
The New Zealand and Australasian species differs slightly but distinctly 
from the @. angustata of the Northern Hemisphere, if the fewer lamellae, 
larger cells, &c. It is at once known from all the other New Zealand plants 
of this family by the strongly undulate leaves, much crisped when dry, 
with narrow, a ne border bigeminately spinulose above, and the 
very long, narrow, cylindrical capsule. 
It is widely distributed throughout New Zealand. 
Oticorricuum Lam. & De Cand., Flor. franc., iii, ed. ii, p. 491. 
Oligotrichum tenuirostre (Hook.) J ae ., Adumbr., i, 699. States 
tenuvrostre 5 . ae exot., t. 75. ( 1818) : Bi Nigs, i, U4: 
Randiby hes By aie: ee ae slightly gibbous capsule with long, 
fine, curved beak, and the entire leaves wit very inconspicuous, almost 
obsolete lamellae. The dye | is very fugacious, narrow, cucullate, quite 
smooth except for a few short bristles at the extreme 
I have it from both North and South Islands. 
Psitopitum Brid., Bryol. univ., ii, 95. 
This is a small well-marked genus of about fou keak species, ct ha 
the circumpolar zones of both hemispheres, and extending to the sub- 
antarctic regions, with one or two species in Australia and three or four on 
cave with inflexed entire niargins, and of softer texture with laxer cells 
than in Pogonatum and Polytrichum. The capsule is terete, rather wide and 
short, often curved and gibbous ; ; the calyptra naked or slightly setulese 
at apex; the peristome sometimes wanting, and always less highly 
developed than in Polytrichum. The capsules are mostly rather like those 
of Oligotrichum tenuirostre, but larger, wider, and with a shorter beak. 
Th 
e following key is mostly based on Botherus’s arrangement :— 
l Peristome wanting .. Ps fe ike at rien ba, ES OLLIE 
” | Peristome ae ae fs e si 2 
apo sharply to o ae -. 2. crispulum. 
* | Leaves entire or ahity denticulate at apex As — -- 3. australe, 
1. Psilopilum Belli Broth. in Oefy. af Finska Vet.-Soc., Foerh., xl, 179 
(1898). 
I have not seen this species, which is described as robust, with den. 
leaves, somewhat crisped when dry, (about 5 mm. long, oblong- koe 
obtuse, sharply, unequally serrate; the nerve veasing helow apex, some- 
what toothed at back above, lamellae 30-36, low, 2-3-seriate, the upper 
— ; Be sab: 20-25. wide; seta short, 1-5 om. high : capsule 
mous, 
A a not know of any localities but those of the first collecting, by Bell, 
on Pine Hill and Mcunt yulbaey near Dunedin 
