290 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
by collectors than, in my experience, is the case. It is one of the 
finest of the endemic species of New Zealand. 
Pterygophyllum fogs a agar Broth. & Dixon in Bull. Torr. 
Bat. Club, xlii, 106 (1 ot 5). 
entire or only minutely crenulate at the apex, and the smaller cells, 
30-35» wide, not collenchymatous at the angles. Fruit has not been 
seen 
It was gathered near Auckland by D. Petrie in 1892; and it occurs 
also in herb. Kew as Pterygophi yllum Colensoi Broth. n. sp., Col enso 
3115; comm. Rev. W. Colenso xi, 1894; det. Broth. ix, 1895.’ 
HYPOPTERYGIACEAE. 
CyATHOPHORUM P. Beauv. Prodr., p. 52. 
Cyathophorum bulbosum (Hedw.) C.M., Syn. ii, 54 (1851). 
— Anoectang ani bulbosum Hedw. Sp. Mus e., p. 43 (1801) 
i. pennatum Brid. Bry a, aS li, 722. (1827), 
Fl. N.Z. li, 120; Handb. N.Z. FL, p. 490. 
And 
Var. minus H. f. & W., Fl. Antaret. i, 143. 
Syn. C. densirete Broth. in Oefv. af Finska Vet.-Soc. Foerh. 
Vy 
s very beautiful <p which attracts the attention of non- 
bestowed collectors by its size and beauty and its resemblance to a 
Polypodiaceous fern, is well eam to all students. It varies greatly 
in size, and to a considerable extent in other characters, though the 
fruiting characters, I believe, are fairly constant, and are striking, 
though the capsules being hice on the under side of the stem 
are easily concealed by the leav 
After much hesitation I ies reduced the plant described by 
ris Ob as C. densirete to the status of a variety, as Fleischer has 
lready done, merging it with the var. minus H. f. & W. Brotherus 
Hakines shed C. densirete by the much smaller size, much denser areo- 
lation (cells 15-20 wide), and very short nerve. The length of the 
nerve I find to be very variable, and not correlated with the remain- 
ing characters. The size of the cells is a more important character 
sar to Pg small size there would be no hesitation in according the 
