338 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
the wholes or nearly the whole width of the leaf base, will readily 
identify 
A £ too om the alar cells, the dense branching and the short, 
rather als not finely pointed acumen separate it from the two 
other species. 
ee (Sehimp. as oe Mitt. M. austr.-amer. in Journ. 
nn. Soe., xii, 21 (1869). 
oe genus difficult to define (Mitten’s represen in the place 
cited above gives oe character whatever to distinguish it from e.g. 
Stereodon) ; é and not very clearly delineated, an generally to be 
recognized from Stebeatil by a certain total of small characters; 
the leaves are frequently widely spreading or even squarrose, an 
when faleate-secund are generally much less regularly faleate at 
the tips, often indeed very flexuose and undulate; the margins are 
most fre maps gs ee denticulate, often to the base; the eells 
generally wider shorter, and m ore _pellueid, frequently spiculose 
y are 
tiated. The calyptra is very frequently, usually in fact, pilose; 
the capsule inclined and curved, usually short and turgid. The fruit, 
wever, is generally very rare, and the fruiting characters are 
therefore not of much practical heip. 
Ctenidium pubescens (H. f. & W.) Broth. in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam., Musci, ii, 1048. : 
Syn. Hypnum pubescens H. f. & W., FI. N.Z. ii, 113 Sele . 
Handb. N.Z. FL, p. ee Hypnum pilosum pgs eS 
in herb. Kew. an ined.) 
This plant is readily known by the dense, soft, dull cep nic 
often with an almost metallic sheen, with det asely crowde ves, 
which may either spread widely o n both sides of the stem, or may 
be strongly faleate ind decurvéd ; hah dry they are usua lly longi- 
tudinally striate, but may very frequently be strongly seanee & 
undulate, and the points also may be wavy. The sharply toothed 
margins ‘all ro und, the somewhat triangular outline of the leaves, 
with numerous ata cells at the basal angles, are quite distinct. The 
fruit is extremely rare. The Handbook deseribes the seta as slightly 
rough, but this, if it occurs at all, is certainly not constant. The 
ealyptra is piles 
Mitten in Teas. Linn. Soe., 2nd Ser., iii, 177, writes of 
a Japanese moss as agreeing aes ve the Australian H . pilosum, 
having the foliage neither faleate nor secund, as in the ito opean 
Ctenidium molluscum nik, gt eens | cannot find that se name 
‘ound Herb. 
congiomtaes Herb. Jaeger, and Herb. Kew (in the latter as i ype 
pilo. fie. and Ctenidium pilosum H. f. & W., bot 
Mitten ‘ s hand), a s well as in Mitten’s own herbarium. ' Whether 
Mitten thought thade plants distinct from C. pubescens, or whether 
pilosum is merely a slip for pubescens, is ce clear ; the latter is 
