LEMBOPHYLLACEAE. 275 
6. Camptochaete tg anneal Broth. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflan- 
zentam ei il, 
Syn. Hypnum vagum Hornsch. in Sieb. M. Nov. Holl., no. 23; 
CM. Syn. ii, 466 (1851) ; Handb. N.Z. FL, p. 481. 
This distinct species may be described as sath the dendroid 
growth of Camptochaete with the suborbicular, cochleariform leaves 
L. clandestinum, but instead of being rounded and obtuse they are 
tipped with a small, abrupt, cucullate mucro. There is frequently, 
but not always a trace of a nerve. 
branches are less dense than usual in the foregoing species, 
and are usually tapering; the seta is rather above a centimetre in 
length. 
The presence of this Australian species in New Zealand is rather 
doubtful, resting upon a single specimen in Mitten’s herbarium, coll, 
Kerr 
LEMBOPHYLLUM Lindb. in Act. Soe. Se. Fenn. x, 277 (1872). 
This genus, like the last, is difficult to define; in its fruiting char- 
acters it does not differ from Camptochaete; the distinction lies rather 
in the habit, which is not rigid and dendroid, but softer and with the 
very short, with a tendency to be parenchymatous, while the alar cells 
form a distinct, inflated group, absent in Camptochaete. These dis- 
tinetions become rather indefinite in view of the habit and texture of 
C. gracilis and the occasional tendency on the part of L. clandestinum 
to become rigid and subdendroid ; while the leaves of C. vaga have 
very much the outline usual in smbo hyllum 
On the other hand, L. anne agat at least is at times very diffi- 
cult to separate from Weymouthia mollis, and I am not at all con- 
vineed that the true affinity ry some of the aed Rca species is not 
with that genus rather than with Camptochae 
As a rule, however, the long branches with highly julaceous, 
eymbiform, obtuse leave s, the minute, elliptic, incrassate, opaque 
cells, very short above, and the i inflated auricles of small cells, 
will ‘make them easy of ——— 
Leaves usually pale green or vellondiah. glossy, nerve- 
les: 1. clandestinum 
{ime usually grey-green, scarcely lossy mostly with 
short, single nerv ws 2 Givulsum 
1. Lembophy! lum clandestinum (H. f. & W.) Lindb. in Act. Soe. 
se. fenn. x, 277 (1872). 
Syn. Hypnum clandestinum H. f. & W., Fl. N.Z. ii, 111 (1855) ; 
Handb. N.Z. F1., p. 480. 
This and the following are so closely allied that it is a question 
whether they are not forms of one and the same species. Typically 
