326 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
less appressed. Consequently the branch or a becomes . some 
extent catenulate, with interstices between the leaves, and the appear- 
ance is not unlike that of Eur. striatum and E. sienielaa 3 in Europe, 
though less rigid. 
The seta is usually decidedly longer than in £. muriculatum, 
from 1.5 to 2 em., but occasionally is quite short. he leaf cells 
are generally rather longer and narrower than those of E. austrinum, 
the width of the lumen “being about twice or thrice that of the cell- 
wall. H. asperipes is probably a less common moss than the other 
two speci es. 
very ic examination of the plants I have come to 
the quite definite conclusion that the New Zealand plant is not 
re with the South American H. remotifoliwm Grey. Mitten 
appears to have aequiesced in the reduction of his H. asperipes to a 
synonym, as New Zealand specimens received from his herbarium 
bear the label ** Burhynechium remo otifolium—H. asperipes ja bbe Ae 
while another is simply labelled ‘‘ Hypnum remotifolium.’ 
ae identification of the had Spina plant with the S. 
American H. remotifolium a made by Wilson, who goes 
barefully” into the question in 5 hetbasicia notes. Unfortunately 
Wilson based his conelusions for ne most part on a sg plant o 
Sinelair’s, which does agree very nearly with the §. American plant ; 
but Sinclair’s plant is with searcely a doubt Rhynchostegium tenui- 
folium, which in habit and vegetative structure is scarcely separable 
rom H. rem Li smigett and the same remark applies to Knight’s 
plant, Bice in both Hooker’s and Wilson’s herbaria is without 
fruit the oes hand a fruiting plant of Colenso’s at Kew— 
“Cok 670, New Zealand, 1847,’’ which Wilson has named ‘“‘ H. 
remotifolium Greville? var??’—is certainly Mitten’s H. asperipes, 
and is not identical with the American plant; and these comprise 
the whole of the material on which Wilson’s conclusion was based. 
H. remotifolium has widely ovate, very shortly pointed leaves, 
distinctly serrulate all the way round, with a more clearly defined 
New Zealand plants are, I believe always, certainly usually autoicous. 
4. go doe praelongum (L.) Hobk. Synopsis of the Brit. 
es, Ed. 2, p. 206 (1884). 
ae Hypnum bettas bah L. Sp. pL, p. ye Eurhynchium 
Stokes (Turn.) Bry. eur., vol. v, t. 526. 
This was gathered, sterile, by Mrs. J. Meiklejohn near Diamond 
Harbour, Canterbury, in April, 1927. It is a rather slender form, 
but it agrees perfectly with the European pla S it occurs on 
the Andes of S. poco its occurrence is not altogether unexpected 
It is easily kno its dimorphous leaves, the stem leav 
widely cordate, and longly Fc ren base, = narrowed 
into a long, fine, squarrose or recurved a ; the branch leaves 
uch narrower, ovate-lanceolate or fevthonten a ceeaaaally tapering, 
not complanate,  dameity denticulate. 
