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usually concave at the apex, quite entire ; crisped and incurved when dry ; 
nerve vanishing. Fruitstalk stout, \ in. long. Capsule erect, turbinate ; 
mouth large, teeth large, often 3-fid ; annulus 0 ; operculum with a slender 
beak, longer than the capsule. Inflorescence dioecious. 
Northern and middle Islands : not uncommon on wet stones, rocks, etc. Colenso, 
etc. "" mania.) 
clathratum, Mitten , mss. ; — D. vaginatum, var. clathratum , FI. 
N. Z. ii. 65. Stems 1-2, long, slender, branching. Leaves distant, imbri- 
cating, with a broad square sheathing base and long subulate rigid upper 
portion, the latter is squarrose when dry, almost entire or toothed at the apex, 
and wholly occupied by the stout nerve. Fruitstalk slender. Capsule 
ovoid or turbinate, erect or suberect ; annulus 0 ; teeth long, papillose, vari- 
ously perforate, sometimes 3-fid ; operculum with a long beak. Inflorescence 
dioecious. 
Northern Island : wet rocks, Bay of Islands, falls of the Keri-Keri river, J. D. H. 
5. D. Schreberi, Hectwig ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 65. Stems tufted, short, | 
in. high, nearly simple. Leaves with a broad sheathing base, and lanceolate- 
subulate, spreading, channelled, nearly entire upper part, which is flexuous 
when dry; nerve slender. Fruitstalks h in. high. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 
cernuous, strumose ; operculum with a short beak as long as the capsule. 
Inflorescence dioecious. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 69. t. xxxix. 
Northern Island : on moist banks, Bay of Islands, J. D. II. (Britain.) Mr. Wilson 
remarks that this differs from the European form in the entire leaves. 
6. D. campylophyllum, Toyl. ? — Ft. N. Z. ii. 65. Closely resembling 
D. Schreberi, but leaves loDger and more rigid, less suddenly dilated below. 
Capsule less oblique, longer, without a strumose operculum. 
Northern Island : Colenso. Hawke’s Bay, Jolliffe. (Andes.) 
J/'D. trichop odum, Mitten, mss. Stems 1 in. high, tomentose. Leaves 
subsecund, pale yellowish, erecto-patent, base elliptic-oblong, then setaceous 
acuminate; nerve rigid, occupying the whole subulate portion of the leaf ; 
margins serrulate at the apex ; perichaetial convolute, with long slender apices. 
Fruitstalk slender, in. long, flexuous, yellow. Capsule cylindric-ovoid, equal, 
erect; mouth small; teeth short, red. — Mitten. 
Middle Island : Otago. Hector and Buchanan. Foliage of Z). setosum and capsule of 
Holomitrium perichcetiale. 
8. D. di carp on, Ilornsch. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 66. Stems tufted, robust, 
1-2 in. high, densely covered with matted fibrils. Leaves spreading, squar- 
rose or subsecund, linear-cuspidate, from an ovate-lanceolate base, flexuous, 
striate ; margins and back spinulose-serrate ; nerve solid. Fruitstalks 2 or 
more together, sheathed by long perichaetial leaves. Capsules curved, cernu- 
ous ; operculum with a long beak. — Schwsegr. Suppl. t. 251. F. leucolomoides, 
C. Muell. in Bot. Zeit. 1851, 550. 
Northern and middle Islands, common. (Tasmania and Australia.) JD. spinosum, 
Wils. mss., is considered by him a large variety with numerous (3-8) longer, set®. 
9. D. robustum, HooJc.f. and Wils. Ft. Antarct. 406. t. 152. /. 8 ; — 
FI. N. Z. ii. 66. Stems forming large tufts, tall and robust. Leaves sub- 
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