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uniform in size and direction, more or less complanate, they give 
a very plumose appearance to the branches under the lens. They 
are lingulate from a wider base, crenulate-denticulate at margin 
above, obtuse or very minutely apiculate, nerved for about two- 
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a paper on t a of the Isthmus of Auckland in Trans. N.Z 
Inst., iv, 229, refers to it as ‘‘Anomodon Huttonii n. s ( ally 
discovered at Omaha)’’ and adds that it has not been found sout 
of Auckland. He makes no reference to it, however, in his paper 
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description of the species gives only ‘‘ Gt. Barrier Id., Hutton & 
irk,’’ and it certainly exists from there in Hutton & Kirk’s collec- 
tions, and I have also received it from the late Mr. W. ralia who 
Haplohymenium pianos (C.M.) Broth. from S. Africa is 
quite probably identical. I have not been to nd any trie 
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petninliene differing from Thuidium in the irre set branching, 
few or no paraphyllia, and the stem leaves little differentiated from 
the branch es it is havactensol by short, more or less rhomboid 
cells, which a smooth or more often papillose (either by the projec- 
Pseudoleskea imbricata (H. f. & W.) Broth. in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam., Musci, ii, 1000, fig. 728. 
Syn. L eskea imbricata Hté W., Fl. Tasm., ii, 202 (1860). 
Cryphaea imbricata Mitt. in Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soe. 
Victoria xix, 80 (1883). 
This species has only recently been recorded (by Brotherus, 
loe. cit.) from New Zealand; I have s ecimens from Oamaru, leg. 
manian and Australian plant. It appears to be rare. It is readily 
known by the dense tufts with crowded erect branches, of a brownish 
colour, the leaves very densely crowded so that when dry the 
