Campy lop us .] 
IV. MUSCI. 
415 
erect ; base ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a long- subulate, setaceous, white 
spinulous point ; nerve very broad, spongy. Fruitstalks crowded, stout, 
spirally twisted. Capsule pyriform, pale, substance thick, grooved when dry ; 
mouth purple ; operculum small. Calyptra short. — C. torfaceus, Mitt, in 
Hook. Kew Journ. Hot. 1856. 257; Dicranum Jlexuosum, C. Muell. in Bot. 
Zeit. 1851. 551. 
Northern and Middle Islands: East Coast, Culenso ; Kiapara, Mossman ; Auck- 
land, Sinclair , Knight ; Hokianga, Sinclair ; Otago, Hector and, Buchanan. Camp- 
bell’s Island, barren, J. 1). H. (Tasmania.) 
5. C. bicolor, Ilornschuch ; — Fl.N.Z. ii. 69. Stems densely tufted. 
Leaves crowded, lower black, upper glossy green, stout, subulate-lanceolate, 
obtuse, concave at the apex, without hair-points ; nerve broad. 
Northern Island, Colenso ; Kiapara, Mossman. (Tasmania, Australia.) 
14. TREMATODOU, Richard. 
Usually short, tufted, annual, pale-green mosses, growing on earth. Leaves 
very slender. Fruitstalk terminal, flexuous or coiled. Capsule oblong, cer- 
nuous, with a long narrow neck (struma), annulate; teeth 16, in one row, 
subulate, transversely barred, 2-fid, often unequally, rough and granulated. 
Operculum long beaked. Calyptra cucullate, inflated. 
A small genus, not rare in warm and temperate latitudes. 
Capsule much shorter than its neck 1. T. suberect us. 
Capsule as long as its neck. 
Capsule deflexed 2. T. arcuatus. 
Capsule suberect 3. T.flexipes. 
K^T. suberectus, Mitten , mss. — T. longicollis, FI. N. Z. ii. 69 (not of 
Richard). Stems short, slender, erect, sparingly branched. Leaves pale 
green, subulate, with setaceous denticulate points, flexuous when dry ; nerve 
stout ; perichsetial very long, also denticulate at the apex. Fruitstalk f- 
in. long. Capsule elongate, nearly erect, much shorter than the somewhat 
curved neck ; operculum conical, beaked, as long as the capsule. Inflores- 
cence dioecious. 
Northern and Middle Islauds : Bay of Islands, on clay banks, J. D. H. ; "Wellington, 
Lyall. Mitten distinguishes this from T. Longicollis by the shorter neck of the capsule and 
inflorescence. 
</ T. arcuatus, Mitten, mss. Very similar to T. suberectus, but the 
capsule is as long as its neck, and di flexed. 
Northern Island : Wellington, Stephenson. 
3. T. flexipes, Mitten in FI. Tasman, ii. 173. 1. 172./. 6. Stems very 
short. Leaves erecto-patent, lanceolate-subulate, quite entire ; nerve broad, 
occupying the whole upper three-fourths of the leaf. Fruitstalk short, 
flexuose. Capsule suberect, red-brown, as long as its neck ; teeth red, cleft; 
operculum with a curved beak. 
Middle Island : Otago, Hector and Buchanan. (Tasmania.) 
