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IV. MUSCI. 
\_Andrecea. 
1. ANDREW A, Ehrhart. 
Small, perennial, dark brown, purplish or black, monoecious or dioecious 
mosses, growing usually on rocks. Leaves often secund ; cells dot-like. 
Eruitstalk terminal, short, seated on an elongated pale receptacle, as in 
Sphagnum.. Capsule erect, black, splitting laterally into 4 valves, which are 
held together by the persistent operculum. Calyptra mitriform, small. 
Arctic, alpine, and subalpine mosses, found in all mountainous countries ; intermediate in 
respect of the form of the capsule between Hepatica and Musci. > 
Leaves nerveless. 
Leaves subulate-lanceolate, gibbous at the base 1. A. acutifoiia. 
Leaves ovate-subulate, papillose, spreading, sheathing at the base . . 2. A. rupestris. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, not papillose, erecto-patent 3. A. mutabilis. 
Leaves oblong-ovate, obtuse, shining, erect 4. A. nitida. 
Leaves with a broad nerve, ovate-subulale, falcate 5. A. subulata. 
1. A. acutifoiia, Hook.f. and Wils. FI. Antarct. i. 118. t. 151./. 2 ; 
— FI. N. Z. ii. 5 7. Stems f-1 in. high. Leaves reddish or almost black, 
erecto-patent, incurved, erect when dry, subulate-lanceolate, acute, rigid, 
concave, nerveless, gibbous at the base ; perichsetial similar. 
Northern Island: Ruahine range, Colenso. Campbell’s Island: on rocks (barren), 
J. D. H. (Kerguelen’s Land, Fuegia and Andes of South America). 
2. A. petrophila, Ehrhart ; — FI. Tasm. ii. 161. — A. rupestris, El. N. 
Z. ii. 57, not of Linn. Stems very short. Leaves reddish-brown, not glossy, 
spreading, often subsecund, ovate-subulate or acuminate, base sheathing, back 
papillose, appressed when dry, nerveless. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 
Northern Island: on the mountains, Colenso . (Fuegia, Tasmania, Andes of South Ame- 
rica, Europe, and most subalpine regions.) 
8. A. mutabilis, Hook. f. and Wils. FI. Antarct. i. 119. t. 57. /. 2. 
Stems 1 in. high, naked below, branched above, slender. Leaves red- 
brown, yellow' at the base, erecto-patent, appressed when dry, rarely falcate 
and secund, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, slightly concave, nerveless, hardly 
papillose at the back ; perichaetial longer, elliptic-lanceolate, convolute. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island : on rocks on the hills, J. D. H. 
(Falkland Islands). Near A. rupestris, but the leaves are more erect and narrower. 
4. A. nitida, Hook.f. and Wils. FI. Antarct. i. 118. t. 57./ 3. Stems 
suberect, i in. high, sparingly branched. Leaves red-brown or black-purple, 
crowded, suberect or erecto-patent, scarcely crisped when dry, ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, apiculate, nerveless, shining, concave ; margins reflexed ; perichaetial 
longer, erect. Antheridia 6, with a few paraphyses mixed ; archegonia 4, 
wdthout paraphyses. 
Lord Auckland’s group : on rocks on the hills, rare, J. D. H. A very distinct and 
curious species. (Tasmania). 
5. A. subulata, Harvey in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 201 ; — FI. Antarct. i. 119. 
t. 57. /. 1. Stems rather branched. Leaves red-browm, falcate, secund, 
subulate from a dilated base, concave, rigid ; nerve very broad and thick ; 
perichEetial small, very inconspicuous. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island : rocks on the hills, J. B. H. 
(Tasmania, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, and Fuegia,. The specimens from South Africa 
have larger perichaetial leaves. 
