262 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
auriculata subtriangularia, leniter plicata, in acumen angustum, ou 
superioribus saepe filiforme, substrictum, erecto-patens, siccum m 
m 
bias vel lineari-rhomboideae, parietibus firmis nee valde incrassatis, 
lumine dorso saepe papillis 1-3 altiusculis praedito; marginales CO 
pallidiores; basilares sensim breviores, paullo latiores, ad bas 
auricularum plures latiuseuli, breviores, parietibus valde avtaeutis 
porosis, sinuosis. Fructus ignotus. 
Hab.: On tree in serub, Ballina, N.S.W., July, 1900; W. W. Watts 
(Type). Trees, Skinner’s Creek, Richmond He Ballin a, N.S.W., May, 
1897, W. W. Watts, Mosses of N.S. Wales, No. 1194. as Papillaria 
intricata Mitt. North Auckland, N.Z., H. B. Matthews, 1925 (No. 
21h; 
The New Zealand specimen was sent me by Mr. G. O. K. Sains- 
bury, among mosses collected by Mr. wae pointe in the north of Auck- 
land, but without closer localization. 1 recognized it as something 
different from the known N.Z. species, and was able to identify it 
with the Lite fi oe collected in 1900, to which Brotherus had 
given the MS. 1 also recognized the same species in the earlier 
Ballina specimen,  distviba ted as P. intricata Mitt., det. Brotherus. 
The Samoan P. intricata, however, has the leaves half- twisted, both 
moist na ae and has quite different areolation. 
The type plant differs from the two others in having a prepon 
derance of the very short, robust, densely foliate, corticolous branches, 
which appear to be the first formed, the long, pendu lous, slender ones 
appearing later. The Ballina 1 1194 has a very few of these; the N.Z. 
specimen does not show them, due probably to the whole ‘plant not 
having been collected. * 
The s species, although at first sight not unlike very slender forms 
of P. crocea, and P. flavo-limbata, is really very distinct, especially in 
the areolation. In all the others the upper cells are highly o opaque 
with dense, low papillae ; in the present plant, though slightly obscure 
and ill- defined, this is due to the cell walls being of much the same 
en 
in profile, is distantly but quite distinctly muricate. The basal cells 
are not greatly altered in character, but are rather more obscure an 
darker than the upper ones, instead of being, as in all the other 
species, paler. The position ‘of the leaves, very difficult to describe, 
gee : 
other species, and when dry, as well as in the moist state the broadly 
auricled base stands away from the stem or branch and is then 
abruptly contracted to the long, narrow, straight lamina and acumen, 
suberect and spreading but not appr ressed, so as to give a bristly 
appearance to the branch under the lens. In the more slender 
branches the leaf acumen becomes almost setaceous. 
* Specimens sent later from the same locality show these branches well. 
