SEPMATOPHYLLACEAE. 311 
It is doubtful whether it is identical with R. crasseusculum 
(Brid. ) 
have not seen an original specimen of H. Kirku C. M. & Beck., 
but the description does not suggest any difference from R. con- 
tiguum, and a specimen of Beckett’s own collecting and naming 
(Moreton Bush, Tai Tapu, Canterbury. No. 370c) is certainly this 
pecies. 
6. Rhaphidostegium tenuirostre (Hook.) Jaeg. Adumbr. ii, 469. 
Syn. Hypnum tenuirostre Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 111 (Feb. 
1819): Fl. N.Z. ii, 113; Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 474. - 
This and the following yo species are much more robust than 
any of the preceding, and are not likely to be mistaken for them, 
though agai sterile fons of the present plant might pass for robust 
en or R. leuco 
markedly cuspidate at apex. The foliation is generally very dense. 
The leaves are sometimes finely but sharply denticulate at apex. 
It appears to be uncommon. 
7. Rhaphidostegium Jolliffii (Mitt.) Jaeg. Adumbr. ii, 457. 
Syn. Stereodon Jolliffi Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soe., Bot., iv, 
7 59). Hypnum Jolliffii Hook. f., Handb. N.Z. F1., 
p. 474 
robust plant, somewhat resembling the last, but with much 
shorter, widely oval, acute but not acuminate leaves, usually secund, 
but not faleate ; the Leseargn leaves very similar to ices of the 
last; the seta short rter, and slightly rugulose at apex, the capsule 
sho rter, and subhorizontal. Tt is, as Mitten says, very near ‘ K. 
loxense (H ook), ee it: caespitosum (Sw.), but the seta seems con- 
stantly roughen 
at 36, 1 think, rare, especially i in the South I. 
8. Rhaphidostegium homomallum (Hampe) Jaeg. Adumbr. ii, 749. 
Syn. Pose homomalla Hampe Ie. Muse., t. 6 (1844); 
m homomallum C. M. Syn. ii, 336; Handb. N.Z. 
ri os ATA. 
Very re Resid in habit and leaf form to the last, but 
dioicous, and with very distinct alar cells;- instead of having 1-3 
large, pale, vesi aoaias cells side by side at the basal angles with a 
few much smaller but short and wide ones above, as usual in this 
genus, the alar cells are numerous, orange, all highly incrassate, and 
the extreme alar ones only a little longer and not much differentiated 
