ECHINODIACEAE. 249 
jE Stet umbrosum (Mitt.) Jaeg. Adumbr. ii, 380. (Plate X, 
fig. 3.) 
Syn. Leskea umbrosa Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soe., Bot. iv, 92 
(1859). Hypnum wmbrosum Hook. f., Handb. N.Z. Fl, p- 
473. Sciaromium umbrosum Par. Ind., p. 1156. 
This has, as Mitten suggests, somewhat the form of a delicate — 
of E. hispidum ; but in structure it is widely different. The lea 
in EL. hispidum are large, 3-4 mm. long, longly subulate from a sis 
sub-deltoid base, the greater part of the subula being formed o the 
stout, excurrent nerve. In the present plant the leaves are far more 
laxly arranged, only about 1 mm. Waa ts ligulate from a slightly wider 
base, shortly and widely acuminate, wi ith: the nerve ceasing at the 
apex, or more rarely excurrent in Sane cuspidate point. The nerve, 
though narrower, is stout in Bae et to the width of the leaf, and 
is highly seaberulous at back; and the cells are much smaller, 5-8 
as compared with 8-12; the leaf we. is not at all thickened. The 
stems, moreover, are but an inch or two long. 
collected originally by Kerr, and the Kew specimen shows 
one or us m capsules. I have a stem in my herbarium from Mitten ‘ 
collection ‘‘ Now Zealand, Mr. Stephenson.’’ Apart from these two 
gatherings (both without definite locality) it has only been collected 
by Mr. G. O. K. Sainsbury, in Waihua Gorge, Wairoa, on rock, fruit- 
ing nicely. The capsules are mort and turgid, but not more so than 
oceurs, occasionally, in... hispidu 
2. Echinodium hispidum (H. f. & W.) Jaeg. Adumbr. ii, 380. 
(Plate X, fig. 4.) 
syn. Hyprum hispidum H. £. & W. in Lond. Journ. of Ht ili, 
552 (1844); Fl. N.Z. ii, 107; Handb. N.Z. FL, p. 473. 
Sciaromium hispidum Par. Ind., p. 1155. 
Very variable in size and colour; ene imes closely resembling 
Cyrtopus setosus, sometimes ich more slender, occasionally with very 
delicate, almost flagelliform tal cg Ths entire leaves, of course, 
separate it at once from Cyrtopus 
. W. N. Beckett fred it in balls or bunches pe detached 
from the soil in damp places in forests, where it had no doubt been 
scratched up by the Wood hen, ‘Weka.’’ This co a we been 
noted with other mosses, e.g. Leucobryum glaucum, and Thamnium 
alopecurum, under similar conditio 
var. glauco-viride (Mitt.) Dixon comb. nov. (Plate X, fig. 5.) 
Syn. H. glauco-viride Mitt. in Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. FL, oe 473 
(1867). Echinodiwm glauco-viride, Jaeg. Adumbr. ii, 380. 
Leaves shorter, broader above, nerve ceasing at or just aie the — 
2 ae 
I have examined the original specimens of this at Kew; Fiji, 
Milne; and Norfolk I., Milne. The Fiji plant, which is the type, wi 
shorter than in E. hispidum, with broader points and the nerve lost 
in the apex. In all other characters they agree exactly with E. his- 
