IV. MUSCI. 
408 
[Fissidens. 
lington, by all ; Auckland, Knight; Southern Alps, Hector, Travers, etc.; Chain Hills, 
Otago, Lindsay. (Tasmania.) 
8. F. bryoides, Red wig ; — Fl.N.Z. ii. 61. Stems in. high. 
Leaves broadly lanceolate, apicnlate ; margin thickened, quite entire ; nerve 
slightly excurrent. Fruitstalk red. Capsule elliptic-oblong, erect ; oper- 
culum conical, acuminate. Male inflorescence axillary on the stem with the 
female. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 304. t. xvi. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, J. B. H. Specimens imperfect. (Europe, N. America.) 
9. F. viridulus, Waldenberg ; — var. acuminatus, FI. N. Z. ii. 61. Stems 
short, simple, decumbent. Leaves rigid, lanceolate, acuminate ; margin much 
thickened, quite entire, blade on the lower half, not continued to the base ; 
nerve nearly continuous to the apex. Capsule oblong-ovoid, erect ; oper- 
culum conical, acuminate. Inflorescence monoecious, male terminal or basilar. 
— Wils. Bryol. Brit. 303. t. liii. 
Var. incurvus. Capsule cernuous, curved. — "Wils. Bryol. Brit. 303. t. 53 ; F. incurvus, 
Schwaeg. — FI. N. Z. ii. 61. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, Colenso and J. B. H. (Europe, N. America, both 
vars.) Distinguished from F. bryoides by the male inflorescence being never axillary. 
10. F. brevifolius, Hook. f. and Wils. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 61. t. 83./. 4. 
Stems very short, | in. long, giving off barren creeping shoots. Leaves on 
the shoots crowded, very shortly ovate, acute, cymbiform, lower margin not 
continued to the base ; margins not thickened beyond the sheathing part, 
entire ; nerve continuous to the apex ; stem-leaves narrower, with a subulate 
or lanceolate acuminate blade. Capsule suberect or inclined ; operculum conic 
with a short beak. Male inflorescence at the base of the barren shoots (axil- 
lary in a Tasmanian state). 
Northern Island : Colenso. Allied to F. viridulus , hut differing in hearing barren 
shoots, in the very short leaves, and in the thickening of the margin of the leaf being con- 
fined to the sheathing portion. (Tasmania, extratropical S. Africa, and S. America.) 
11. F. seruginosus, Hook.f. and Wils.; — FI. N. Z. ii. 62. t. 83./. 5. 
Stems very short, decumbent. Leaves crowded, verdigris-green, narrow' lan- 
ceolate, straight, acuminate, not crisped when dry, opaque ; margin not 
thickened, minutely crenulate towards the apex ; nerve pellucid, continuous 
to the apex ; cells dot-like. Capsule not seen. Male inflorescence basal. 
Northern Island : Colenso. Described from a few fragments only. 
8. CONOMITRIUM, Montagne. 
Aquatic, slender, branched mosses. Leaves distichous, equitant, alternate, 
semi-amplexicaul, the blade unequal-sided, vertical. Fruitstalk very short, 
lateral or terminal. Capsule small, erect, equal, gradually narrowed below ; 
teeth 16, in one row, equidistant, regidar or irregular, with no dark line down 
the centre, truncate, 2-fid at the apex. Operculum conical. Calyptra conical, 
nearly entire at the base. 
A small genus of mosses, of which one species is European. 
1. C. Dillenii, Montagne ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 63. Stems floating, simple 
