368 BRYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
flexuose, about 1 em. long, ceygneous below the capsule; capsule 
small, turgidly oval, without any distinct neck, red; lid conical, 
very shortly ma millate. Peristome rather large, orange red; the 
teeth broad, tapering to a not very fine point, very finely papillate 
on the dorsal surface, densely lamellate, the lamellae stout and 
prominent within; endostome pale, membrane high, quite equalling 
half the length of the teeth; processes nearly equalling the teeth, 
variously cleft and rimose. Cilia filiform, slightly nodose, about as 
long as the processes. Spores 18-22 p. 
p. 203. Anomobryum Harriottii (R. Br. ter.). 
Mr. Sai nsbury set collected aes ee het of this in two or 
three localities in es Bay, notably a fine fruiting specimen 
m wet bank of river: Mangapoike Valley. The plants are in all 
respects much larger than in the original specimens of R. Brown’s or 
in my Anomobryum densum; the capsules are larger; the neck longer 
nd more distinct, oe peristome larger and the vegetative characters 
nae developed, so that the true affinity for some time escaped me, 
I had indeed draw nupa deseription of it as a new species of 
Bbyuin: Seraeensalty, however, it agrees entirely with the above 
plants, and indicates that they both rephescit poorly developed 
forms of the s species. 
My description of A. densum in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 42: 103 
will fit the plant arn if the following dimensions ee those 
given there: stems 2 em. eat eaves 1 mm. long; s 1.5 em 
peristome teeth .5 mm. The nner peristome usually bein a sinall 
number of irr arte eleiies ins papillae, scattered sparsely 
over the proce 
p. 210. Bryum chrysoneuron C.M. 
Sterile slender plants of B. obconicum may at times be so 
this species as to be scarcely separable. The capsule, ho is 
much smaller in B. chrysoneuron, and of a deep reddish sn that 
ot B. obconicum being of a reddish-brown. 
p. 214. Bryum Billardieri Schwaegr. 
Although as sigteth here the leaves are not as a rule rosulate 
and comose, forms ur with the other characters of the species 
which show the aig py Hae comose ; and too much reliance must 
not be placed on this character. 
p. 223. Rhizogonium (Spiridentella) Helmsii ©.M. in Hedwig. 
XXxvi, 333 (1897) is only Cryptopodium bartramioides (Hook.), the 
& plan feud _ ve # Ei eine wi of Helms’s collecting, Paparoa Range, 
S. Island, J x herb. I. Cosmo Melvill, sub nomine Rhizo- 
gonium ( Spindel “Helmeii C. Muell. 
p. 227. Bartramia robusta H. f. & W. 
Mr. Sainsbury has sent me a_ speci so determined iy 
Brotherus, collected probably in the Auckland Te. by J. T. Te 
on the N.Z. tial and a repens 1907. This has the capsules seat 
x _ symmetrical an e gymnostomous: and supports the specific 
status of B. robus on tS 
