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LEUCODONTACEAE. 
Lreucopon Brid. 
None of the species placed under Leucodon in the Handbook, p. 
457, are now referred to that genus. 
L, Lagurus Hook. = Lepyrodon. 
L. implexus ows = Lepyrodon. 
L. nitidus H. f. & W. = Dichelodontium. 
Gly LS aa Hampe. This genus, Lah ag placed in the 
Leucodontaceae, is now referred to Ptychomniacea 
CYRTOPODACEAE. 
This aa is wl ate by Fleischer for certain plants previ- 
ously include [eee aya es baled amongst three 
genera, Besch ee Cyrtopus, and a nus, Cyrtopo odendron 
Fleisch, ineluding one species, °C. “Vieillar i (c. M. ) from New Cale- 
mia. 
: ceileclied differs from Cyrtopus principally in the absence of 
endostome, while in Cyrtopus the peristome is double. 
Cyrtopus (Brid.) Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl, p. 461 (1867). 
Cyrtopus setosus (Hedw.) Hook. f., op. et loc. cit. 
mi a setosum Hed, sp. M., p. 43 ae Clad- 
mnion setosum H. f. & W., Fl. NZ. ii, 100 (1855 
This Ciba plant extends throughout the Islands a the 
extreme north to Stewart Islar t varies raphe ils in the degree 
of robustness of stems and ‘er nche es, and also in the position of the 
leaves when dry, but is searcely likely to be paetalons for any other 
species. Cryptopodiwm istoieiosaes is sometimes mistaken for it, 
but has ~ longer leaves, and darker acai and the fruit is quite 
differen 
rhs epedias is a by Hooker (Handb. N.Z. F1., loc. cit.) to 
S. America, Tasmania, and Hawaii. on are undoubted specimens 
in Hooker’s Sher ererinw from ‘‘ Van Die nningham, 42,’ 
and ‘‘ Van D. Land, Gunn’’; also from “ ae Raab, Sandw ich Is. ss 
Lindley.’’* All these are in fruit. There are no specimens from 
America, and its attribution to S. America is probably an error 
LEPYRODONTACEAE. 
LepyropoN Hampe in Ann. se. nat. (5 ser.) Bot., iv, 367 (1865). 
The two New Zealand gets of this genus are to be eee under 
pacaoene in the Handbook. Both vegetatively and in the fruit, how- 
ever, they are widely distinct from that genus as now fae ae 
The habit of the plants is not unlike that “of Leptostomum. 
*For this locality see my note in Journ. Bot. lx, 290 (1922). 
