48 CBTPTOGA'MIA. 



stipitate, disposed in lines upon the upper branches and upper portion 

 of the main stem : the lower perigonial leaves minute, ovate, pointed ; 

 the upper ones convolute, lanceolate, filiformly acuminate, costate to 

 the apex; the interior ones broad, elliptical, convolute, shortly and 

 obtusely apiculate ; costa vanishing midway. Antheridia 3-5 large, 

 elongated, pedicelled : paraphyses more numerous, and a little longer 

 than the antheridia. 



Plate 9, A. — Hypnum spectosissimum : plant, of the natural size. 

 Fig. 1. Portion of the erect stem, with a branch. 2, 3, 4. Leaves of 

 the stem. 5. Leaf of a branch. 6. Cross section of a leaf. 7, 8. Por- 

 tion of the base of a leaf, showing the reticulation. 9. Point of a leaf. 

 10. Portion of the apparently naked stem. 11. Male bud in the axil 

 of a branch leaf. 12. The same, detached. 13, 14. Antheridia, with 

 paraphyses. 15, 16, 17, 18. Leaves of the perigonium. — Details en- 

 larged. 



Sec, 2. Cupressiformia : caulis prostratus vage vel scepius pinnatlm 

 ramulosus ; folia obsolete breviter bicostata plus minus falcato-secunda. 



f Capsula cernua vel erecto-cemua incequalis. 



11. Hypnum cupressiforme, Linn. 



Hypnum cupressiforme, Linn. Sp. PL p. 1592 ; Bryol. Europ. 6, Hyp. Monogr. p. 25, 

 t. 14. 



Hab. Island of Madeira. New Zealand. 



12. Htpnum chrysogaster, G. Mull. 



Hypnum chrysogaster, C. Miffl. Synop. Muse. Frond. 2, p. 255. (1851.) 

 Hypnum cupressiforme, Hook. f. & Wils. in Sched. Mubc. Antarct. (1853.) 

 Hypnum patale, Hook. fil. & Wils. in tflo. New Zeal. p. 112, t. 90, f. 6. (1855.) 



Hab. New Zealand. 



