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pale peristome prominent. The male flower, as is frequent in this genus, forms 
one of a cluster of small Inid-like flowers at the base of the perichfetium. 
Closely resembles the European F. nitidulum, scarcely differing excejit 
in the base of its leaves. This is tlie species which is mentioned in Hooker’s Hand- 
book of the New Zealand Flora, ii. 470, as Hypnum pulohcllum Dicks ? from the 
Canterbury Alps. 
Tab. III. Fig. v. ; 1, plant nat. size ; 2, cauline leaf ; 3, perichmtium with male 
flower at base ; 4, capsule ; 5, portion of peristome — all maynified. 
[P. Donianum, Sm., is enumerated by James as having been collected by Kidder 
in the U. S. Transit Expedition.] 
1. Acrocladium politum, -ffoo/r. /. et Wils. FI. Antarot. ii., t. 164, f. 2 
(Hypnum). Mill. 1. c. 
Hab. — Christmas Harbour, slender, tufted state, llooker. Koyal Sound, small 
and barren. Futon. 
This moss resembles some species of Flayiothecium, but seems to differ in habit, 
its branches with conduplicate bifarious leaves having so close a resemblance to 
those of Phyllogonkim elegans, Hook. f. ct Wils., that it is frequently mistaken for 
that plant. In the review of the genus Orthorhynchum, Ilcich. by C. Muller 
(Linnma Band, 30, p. 28), one of the species to be referred to tliis genus, the 
O. Ilampeanum, C. Muller, sent from Australia F’elix by Baron F\ von Mueller, 
must, from the description, be Acrocladium polituni, of which specimens have been 
seen from Von Mueller, not however exactly corresponding in locality. 
1. Stereodon cupressiformis, Finn. (Hypnum). 
Base of sea cliff. Royal Sound, barren, Eaton. 
The small specimens obtained exhibit this variable species in that form which 
in Europe is found on the roofs of buildings or on the ground ; they are very unlike 
S. ohrysogasler, C. Muller, so common in Now Zealand. 
1. Amblystegium uncinatum, Uedw. 
Christmas Harbour, Fooker. Near Vulcan Cove, a tall robust form with 
nearly mature fruit ; and Royal Sound, a similar state, but barren, Eaton. 
2. Amblystegium fluitans, Eitt. 
West side of Swain’s Bay, barren, Eaton. 
A large state, with all but the terminal leaves of a brown colour. 
3. Amblystegium riparium, Linn. 
In the lake at Christmas Harbour, Fooker. 
Specimen in a very imperfect state. iUso found by the U. S. Transit Expedition 
growing with Fanuncidus crassipes. 
4. Amblystegium kerguelense, Mitt. Dioicum? Caulis decumbens, 
ramis confertis ascendentibus pinnatim ramosis. Folia caulina laxe imbricata, 
stricta vel curvata, ovato-lanceolata, subulato-acuminata, integerrima, nervo basi 
lato sensim angustato et in acumen evanido percursa ; celluhs parvis oblongis limiti- 
busque pellucidis ad angiflos paucis rectangulis latioribus areolata ; folia ramea 
