302 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
Subgenus A. THutpiopsis Broth. 
Moderately robust plants; stems not arched and rooting at the 
tips, nor stoloniferous; paraphyllia usually short. Branch leaves 
ineurved-catenulate when dry, nerve smooth at back; cells with 
numerous, low papillae. Seta thi 
1. Thuidium furfurosum (H. f. & W.) Jaeg. Adumbr., ii, 322. 
Syn. we ede furfurosum Ti. f.-& W., FL NZ, 
(18 ek : gue N.Z. FL, p. 471. H. unguiculatum 
& W., Fl. Tasm., 1, 208. 
mon a very re aks but one as a rule easily 
recognized by the habit and the foliation. As already mentioned, 
the Secaukied is always bipinnate, not singly pinnate as deser ibed 
in the Handbook. 
var. fulvastrum (Mitt.) Dixon comb. nov. 
Syn. Leskea fulvastra Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 
92 (1859). Hypnum eh Hook. f., Handb. N %. 
FL, p. 471. 
lant has no structural characters, but is a peculiar form 
of ie pa ces The original plant is not a very marked form, 
and Mitten fe does not appear to have considered the branching 
as of importance; other specimens which I have show a very remark. 
able habit, the branches being exceedingly dense, equal in length, 
and short, so that the frond is of a curious form and texture; the 
stem also is extremely tumid, owing to the very dense arrangement 
of the leaves, and the paraphyllia. Intermediate forms are however 
frequent. I have not seen it fruiting. 
2. Thuidium sparsum (H. f. & W.) Jaeg. Adumbr., ii, 322. 
Syn. Hypnum sparsum H. f. & W., Fl. N.Z., ii, 109 (185 5) 5 
andb. N.Z. Fl, p. 471. H. suberectum Hampe in 
ss xxx, 638 ae 60). Thuidium suberectum ciek 
Adumbr., ii, 312 
shortly aecuminate—hence more 
like the branch leaves; the france and branchlets are short, rigid, 
subequal in size, the rameal and ramuline leaves being subsimilar, 
all wide, short, eymbiform, bluntly pointed and not at all acuminate 
very lowly papillose, with pellucid nerve. I have seen very few 
fruiti ting specimens. 
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n Journ. oe Soe., Bot., 1913, p. 328, I referred a New 
Zealand moss to T. sube rectum. (Hampe), and since then I have 
recel 
species. Examination of a large series of plants however has con- 
vineed me that Hampe’s plant cannot be Separated by any definable 
characters from T. sparsum, of which it is a rather robust form 
