366 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
not strongly crisped and incurved. The leaf base is also more 
25-32 » wide at base, as against 35-40 » in U. lutea. I do not find 
any marked difference in the areolation, except that the cells in 
U. anceps are probably slightly more inerassate, and therefore appear 
more a and more irregular in form, being often distinctly - 
elong 
ft ‘uit is apace more delicate, but otherwise appears to 
offer no struetural char 
This Tasmanian anodic was pesmi by Mr. W. Bell in Jan. 
Mi 
of it in my c 
branches, W. Bell, Jan. 1890,’’ ex herb. Brotherus; the other ‘‘ Mt. 
Bonpland, Otago, W. Bell, Jan. 1890,’’ ex herb. Naylor Beckett. 
I have examined a specimen of U. cochleata V ape and eannot 
detect any difference from U. anceps; nor is ther y difference 
suggested by the descriptions with the exception of i peristome, 
the teeth of U. cochleata being described . longly acuminate, with 
the tips filiform and anastomosing ; those of U. anceps as obtuse, and 
not anastomosing at tips. My specimen of U. cochleata (Mt. W elling- 
ton range, W. A. Poe 1524), however, shows the teeth exactly 
as described for’ U. anceps, and I do not think the difference is 
more than one of a more - ape full maturity in the peristome, such 
as one finds SL one in Orthotrichum. As the above specimen, 
however, was not authenticated by Venturi, I do not feel justified 
at present in reducing U. anceps to the synonymy of U. cochleata. 
p. 183. oul ranarei sl a ang Broth. 
Fleischer, Mus n Buitenzorg, li, 434, cites Fl. N.Z. 
78, for M. ee aioe (Hook. & Grev.) Brid. The New pA te 
lant, however, there described is not identical with Hooker & 
Greville’s species, but is M. Weymouthii. 
p. 184. Macromitrium gracile (Hook.). 
Add: nov. var. proboscideum Dixon. Folia, oe 
superiora, in proboscidem praelongam subulatam vel loriformem, 
Saepe crassam, siccitate rigide deflexam, vetustate aeibe selon. 
gata. 
-Hab.—On tree, L. Waikaremoana, Hawkes Bay, G. O. K. Sains- 
bury, Jan. 1924, No. 48 (Type). Tbidem, Jan. 1926, = 31 ya 
284; 
log in orchard, Mauriceville, % Ree No. 271. Sear (iene : 
May, 1922, W. Gray, No. 14, 
A very remarkable form, owe most markedly when the plant 
is dry. In that condition the lower leaves of the ee are nearly 
all broken off at the points, and are incurved, that the branch 
is more or less terete, ue ab ee of the leaves Guliene not brok 
off) being meurved as acile type; in the upper leaves the 
long points are rigidly ditiesos ad slightly. Louipinte, giving a very 
