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Main stem slender, creeping, furnished with fascicles of rootlets, 

 and with scale-like, triangular, elongated, acute leaves. The branches 

 erect, simple, 8-12 lines high, and li-2 lines wide, frondiform, of a 

 linear-lanceolate outline. Leaves bright green, shining, bifariously 

 directed, very closely imbricate, obscurely bicostellate at base, linear 

 complicate below; near and at the oblique apex cymbiform, the 

 extreme point short, acute, and slightly recurved; texture of the 

 leaves firm and thin ; the cellules in the middle portion minute, 

 linear ; those near the apex wider, rhomboidal ; those at the base and 

 its angles, oblong, quadrate, large, and somewhat pellucid. — No flowers 

 or fruit seen. 



The plant has very much the appearance of a Phyllogonium, but 

 its leaves are not distichously inserted upon the stem. 



Plate 17, A. — Neckera phyllogonoides : plant, of the natural 

 size. Fig. 1. A plant. 2. Portion of stem, with leaves. 3, 4, 5, 6, 

 7. Leaves. 8, 9, 10. Portions of same, showing the reticulation. 

 11. Leaf of base of stem. 12, 13. Leaves of the rhizoma.— Details 

 magnified. 



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2. OMALIA, Brid. 



1. Omalia pulchella, Hook. fil. & Wils. 



Omalia pulchetta, Hook. fil. & Wils. Flo. New Zeal. p. 114, t. 91, f. 1. 

 Hooheria punctata, Hook. fil. & Wils. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1844, p. 550. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



3. TRACHYLOMA, Brid. 

 1. Trachyloma planifolium, Book. 



Trachyloma planifolium, Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2, p. 278. 

 Necktra planifolia, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 23. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



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