IV. MUSCI. 
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short. Leaves dull green, suberect, lower ligulate, upper oblong-spathulate, 
acute or rather obtuse; margin papillose; nerve percurrent, scabrous at the back 
below the tip. Fruitstalk i-f in. long. Capsule cylindrical, smooth ; peri- 
stome 0 ; operculum subulate, as long as the capsule. Calyptra smooth at 
the tip. Inflorescence monoecious. 
Northern and Middle Islands, Colenso ; Auckland, Knight ; Banks’s Peninsula, 
Jolliffe ; Nelson, Travers , Maniell. Perhaps only a form of the European E. vulgaris. 
(Tasmania, Australia, Chiloe.) 
22. HEDWIGIA, Ehrhart. 
Loosely tufted, creeping or suberect, branched, monoecious mosses. 
Leaves imbricate, nerveless, concave, with diaphanous erose apices. Cells 
small, quadrate. Fruitstalk very short, terminal. Capsule incurved in the 
periclisetium, globose ; annulus and teeth 0. Operculum plano-convex. 
Calyptra small, conic, glabrous or hairy. 
A small genus, native of both temperate hemispheres. 
1. H. ciliata, Mir . — Stems depressed, 1-2 in. long, forming loosely- 
tufted patches. Leaves dull, glaucous or yellowish, crowded, spreading, 
erect and imbricate when dry, ovate-lanceolate, with erose diaphanous points; 
margin recurved below, flatfish above ; perichaetial larger, apices ciliate. 
Mouth of capsule dilated when dry. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 146. t. 6. 
Middle Island : Otago, Hector and Buchanan. (Europe, America, Tasmania.) 
23. BEATJNIA, Schimper. 
Loosely tufted, suberect, pinnately-branched, dioecious mosses. Leaves 
closely imbricated, concave, all but quite entire, with long flexuous hair- 
points. Cells small. Fruitstalk long, slender, on short lateral branchlets. 
Capsule globose, grooved ; mouth large ; annulus and teeth 0. Operculum 
convex, with a long slender beak. Calyptra small, cucullate, glabrous. 
A small genus of chiefly southern mosses, found also in the mountoius of the tropics. 
1. B. Hhimhoidtii, Schimper. — Iledwigia, Hook.; — FI. N. Z. ii. 93. — 
Stems suberect, 2-6 in. high. Leaves obovate, somewhat contracted in the 
middle, acuminate, with long hair-points, coriaceous ; perichaetial larger, 
sheathing, reddish, glossy. Fruitstalk f in. long. Male inflorescence 
axillary, abundant. — Hedmgia , Hook. Mus. Exot. t. 137 ; Ancectangium, FI. 
Antarct. 135 and 415. 
Middle Island, Lyall ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. Lord Auckland's group and 
Campbell’s Island : abundant on moist rocks, J. D. H. (Australia, Tasmania, Andes, 
Fuegia.) 
24. LEPTANGIUM, Montagne. 
Minute tufted moss, growing in vegetable soil, having a succulent subter- 
raneous stem, and very short branches. Leaves concave, nerveless ; cells 
large, lax. Fruitstalk terminal, extremely short. Capsule almost sessile, 
globose, mouth dilated, peristome 0. Operculum conical. Calyptra minute, 
fugacious. 
