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BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
it on the whole most satisfactory in this group to abandon authori- 
ties and rely on my study of the plants themselves 
aac sta seale-lea 
es. 
shlong lingulate; cells small, rounded, incrassate. 
1. Hypopterygium concinnum (Hook.) Brid. Bryol. Univ. ii, 
(1827). 
New Zealand plant. 
Ze. 
Hi. 
( 
smooth, pty long. 
Sch 
Key. 
Stems aagenyrins branched, frond elongate; leaves 
ore or less oblong-lingulate 
Stems les ering frond broad, more. ‘or less fan- 
ed; leaves more or less cordate-o 
Robust, frond 1-2 in. across, branches pine bi- 
tri-pinnate; leaves small . 
sagan frond 1 in. across or much less; branches 
mple or distantly once pinna 
Axillary bristles numerous and — 
Axillary bristles none 
Stipes leaves reflexed when moist, stipes naked; 
leaves u defie 
oa giabe, 
scarcely undulate Ss ais often deflexed on 
each side of the bra 
Seta stout ... 
Stipes tomentose 
Stipes naked 
Subgenus I. Lopipium. 
1. concinnunre 
LENE 
' 2. filiculaeforme 
3. setigerum ~ 
5 
6 
5, rotulatum 
ar. oceanicum 
4, novae- A 
landiae 
do. var. nudicaule 
Stipes (the unbranched part of the senna stem) short, with 
or less r 
Frond erect, elongate, m 
with ane or slightly pinnate oe 
egularly 
ves narrow, 
Seta very short, 
714 
ee Leskea concinna Hook. Muse. Exot., t. 34 (1818- pede: 
69. (H. 
Schw 
pallens Mitt. in Trans. 
76. 
There 
Mos 
varying names of H. 
The Han 
aland, under the 
Str ruthiopteris 
Brid. Dioicous. 
(b) #H. Struthiopteris Brid. 
waegr., not. of Hooker). Monoicous. 
rough. 
Kin 
concinnum to aust 
asserting t 
: , p. 489; an 
pallens H. f. & W., FI. NZ. li, 119 (1855). 
Proe. roy. soe. Victoria, 1882, p 
Str egg ahi auct 
aegr. ? opidium 
Hy iter ygrum 
has been endless confusion as to the nomenclature of the 
t authors see two species 
na, Hi. ia and 
follow, 
to New 
Fru tst alte stout, 
Leskea concinna 
Seta slender, tin. long, 
berg gives only H. pallens as of New Zealand, confining 
ral S. America, and with several other ae Hae 
that Leskea concinna Schwaegr. Suppl. t. tes is not the 
Leskea concinna of Hooker, Muse. Exot., t. 34. 
