BRACHYTHECIACEAE, Jeo 
differentiated alar cells which is found in most, if not all, species 
or Rhynchostegiella. I am inclined to think the restoration of this 
species to ph ade = Rhynchostegiella a more homogeneous 
and better defined gen 
E. eaescnatiae as to be widely rears” and frequent 
- shady woods, ete. The var. 8, described in the Han dbook, does 
to be of great importance. No specimens exist in 
Wilson” s Eee and the only—and rather doubtful—specimen 
in Hooker’s herbarium does not appear to have any very marked 
characters. | 
2. ee austrinum (H. f. & W.) Jaeg. Adumbr. ii, 422 
(187 “e 
Hypnum austrinum H. f. & W., Fl. N.Z. ii, 108 
ee 1885) Handb. N.Z. FIL, p. 477. 
Robust; nearly always of a dull, dark or dirty green; stems 
usually prostrate with long, nearly simple, robust branches. Leaves 
erecto-patent or subsecund, when dry more erect but not much 
ly y 
toothed ; cells wide and rather short, the primordial utricle often 
being very conspicuous, and they be ecome laxer at extreme base. 
Nerve sometimes wide at base, short. 
Perichaetia rather large, the bracts erect or somewhat oe 
rather shortly acuminate, toothed. Seta 1.5, rarely 2 em. high; 
capsule rather large, turgi ly oval. 
This species Paha | in habit the European EF. rusciforme, and 
grows in similar habitats, usually near water; but the leaf structure 
is quite a fom 
The 8, of the Handbook, with smaller leaves and more 
slender, es branching, may perhaps be worth taking up. 
3. Eurhynchium asperipes ct Dixon comb. nov. 
Syn. Hypnum asperipes Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., 
4 Sige ae 859). Sian remotifolium H. f. & W., FL 
, 108 et Handb. N.Z. Fl. p, 477 (non H. remoti- 
recat ‘Gre wey. 
his plant varies a good deal, and may in the sterile — 
be wien for Rhynchostegium semen ae: the Seen seta mee 
separates it from that, and the leaves are usually very seers 
cordate-ovate, and suddenly attenuated to a Bie. narrow acumen, 
as well as being oo arranged on the dom while the narrower, 
softer leaves of E. muriculatum and the habit and colour of E. 
austrinum, will generally distinguish them with ease. In its usual 
and typ ical f form, E. asperipes has a leaf arrangement quite peculiar 
to itself, and while difficult to deseribe, recognizable at once when 
known. In this case the peels es ae no tendency to be either com- 
planate or Peace? 5 they are imbricated all round the stem, and not 
very densely; in the teak state Hes are rather rigidly divaricate, 
and on drying, the base of the leaf retains a good deal of that 
direction, white the upper part is bent inwards, so as to he more or 
