NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 
BULLETIN No. 3, PART VI. 
STUDIES IN THE 
BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND 
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE Heston OF 
RoBERT BROWN. 
By H. N. Drxon, M.A., F.L.S. 
PART VI. 
LESKEACEAE. 
As adapted by Brotherus this Family comprises several Tribes, 
including genera which have been variously placed under Le skea, 
omodon, Thuidium, Hypnum, ete. They are characterized by a 
general Hypnoid growth, uninerved leaves, small, more or less 
rounded, Apo papillose cells, and a generally Hypnoid eapsule and 
peristom 
The. genera principally belong to the temperate and colder 
regions, Sicheki Thuidium has an equally tropical distribution. 
HAPLOHYMENIUM Doz. & Molk. in Ann. se. nat. 1844, 11, 310. 
a Huttonii (Mitt.) Broth. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzen- 
., Musci, ii, 986. 
nomodon ails Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soe., Bot., 
xiii, 309 (187 
This little known A is endemic in New Zealand, and 
oy ae only poesia nye Gt. Barrier Id., a it was abtleated 
‘ea bitienied loaves, which are appre ressed when arieg 0) that ie 
branches are julaceous, but moisten out rapidly, and being very 
