TFeissia.] 
IV. MTJSCI. 
405 
crusted with calcareous matter ; stems about 1 in. high, with crowded shoots. 
Leaves erecto-patent, below oblong, above narrow linear-subulate, obtuse at 
the apex ; nerve broad, papillose at the back ; margin subdenticulate above and 
crenulate or papillose at the apex ; lower cells oblong, green, pale, pellucid, 
upper shorter, subrotund ; perichsetial twice as broad, obtuse. Fruitstalk 
£ in. long. Capsule ovoid; teeth short, red (Mitten). 
Northern Island, Stephenson. Mitten describes this as resembling W. verticillata, 
Brid., but having narrower and more obtuse leaves. 
5. W. contecta. Hook. f. and Wits. FI. Antarct. 127. t. 58. /. 3. 
Stems densely tufted, 1£ in. high, rigid, fragile, fastigiately branched. 
Leaves dark-green, crowded, erect, striate, rigid, lanceolate below, nar- 
rowed into a long subulate point, channelled ; nerve solid, excurrent ; mar- 
gin quite entire, below indexed; perichsetial similar, larger. Fruitstalk very 
short. Capsule immersed, ovoid ; mouth open, exannulate ; teeth yellow- 
red, reflexed when dry, pyramidal, entire or 2-fid ; operculum with a long 
slender oblique beak. Calyplra small, subulate. — Blindia, C. MueU. 
Campbell’s Island : on alpine rocks, J. J). H. A remarkable plant, with the habit of 
some small Dicrana, but the teeth entire or nearly so. (Kerguelen’s Land.) 
6. SYMBLEPHARIS, Montagne. 
Tufted perennial mosses, growing on trees or stones. Leaves long, slen- 
der ; perichsetial sheathing the fruitstalk ; cells dot-like. Fruitstalk terminal, 
slender. Capsule erect, subcvlindric ; mouth small ; annulus persistent ; teeth 
8, in one row, bigeminate, or 32 in fours, short, conniving into a cone when dry. 
Operculum with a very slender beak. Calyptra long, subulate, dimidiate. 
A small genus, confined to the southern hemisphere. The name Holomitrium should, in 
M. Mitten’s opinion, be retained for this genus. 
Leaves erecto-patent, crisped when dry 1. S. perichatialis. 
Leaves falcate-secund, unaltered when dry 
2. S. pumila. 
1. S. pericheetialis, JFils. in FI. N. Z. ii. 60. Stem erect, branched, 
£-1 in. high. Leaves crowded, erecto-patent, crisped when dry, lanceolate 
below, narrowed to a long subulate point, quite entire, channelled ; nerve 
continuous; margin flat; perichsetial very long, sheathing. Fruitstalk £-1 
in. long, pale; annulus small, persistent; teeth 32, erect or recurved when 
moist, dull red, 2-fid at the apex, perforate below ; operculum as long as the 
capsule, almost setaceous. Calyptra twice as long. Male inflor. unknown. 
— TricJiostomnm, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 73 ; Olomitrium and Hotomitrium, 
Bridel; Acalyphum cylindricum, Palisot; Sprucea, Hook. f. and Wils. FI. 
Antarct. i. 128. 
Common throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Menzies, etc., and Camp- 
t Island, J. I). H. (Australia, Tasmania, the Mauritius.) 
>2. S. pumila, Mitten, mss. Stems slender, tufted, brownish-green. 
Leaves all falcate and secund, unaltered when dry, circinately curved, linear- 
lanceolate, gradually narrowed from the base, quite entire ; nerve slender, per- 
current ; cells at the base large, pale, quadrate. Fruitstalk rather stout. 
Capsule immature. 
Middle Island : dry ground, Otago, Hector and Buchanan. Allied to II. aniarcticum. 
