Racomitrium.'] 
IV. MUSCI. 
427 
sule cylindric ; mouth small; teeth short, with transverse connecting bars. 
— R. fascicular e, var. 2 and 3, FI. Antarct. p. 402. Grimmia emersa, C. Muell. 
in Bot. Zeit. 1851, 562. R. microcarpum ?, Mont, in Yoy. au Pole Sud, Bot. 
Crypt, p. 284. 
Northern and Middle Islands : common on rocks on the mountains. (Tasmania, 
Fuegia.) 
6. R, lanuginosum, Bridel ; — FI. Antarct. i. 124 ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 76. 
Stems elongate, loosely tufted, 2-12 in. long, branched. Leaves hoary, 
spreading, erecto-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, their apex hyaline toothed 
and granulate. Fruitstalk apparently lateral, short, erect, tubercled. Cap- 
sule minute, ovoid, pale brown ; mouth small ; walls thick ; teeth 2-fid, divi- 
sions filiform ; annulus large ; operculum as long as the capsule, or longer. 
— Wils. Bryol. Brit. 169. t. 19. 
Var . pruinosum, FI. N. Z. iii. 76. Leaves more hoary, the hyaline point longer, spinu- 
lose-serrate ; teeth erect. 
Campbell’s Island: on rocks, J. D. H. — Var. pruinosum, Northern and Middle 
Islands : rocks on the mountains, common, Colenso, Travers , Haast , Hector and Buchanan 
(not seen in fruit) ; the common form of this moss is abundant in the north and south tem- 
perate zones. 
27. SCHLOTHEIMIA, Bridel. 
Tufted, creeping, usually dark-coloured mosses, with erect short branches, 
growing in tufts on trees. Stems and branches red-brown or blackish below, 
yellow or greenish at the tips. Leaves imbricated all round, oblong ; cells 
circular, opaque, punctiform. Fruitstalk terminal, long or short. Capsule 
erect, subcylindric, smooth or grooved, not annulate. Teeth in 2 rows ; 
outer 16, in pairs, revolute; inner 16 or more, irregular, erect, conniving and 
orming a cone. Operculum conical, beaked. Calyptra conical or mitriform, 
‘ough at the tip, 4- or more lobed at the bottom ; the lobes indexed. 
A considerable genus in the tropics and south temperate zone. 
Leaves Ungulate, shortly mucronate or not 1.5. Brownii. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, with a long mucro 2. S. Campbelliana. 
1. S. Brownii, Schwcegr. Suppl. ii. t. 167 ; — Ft. N. Z. ii. 77. Stems 
loosely tufted, slender, \ in. long; branches nearly as high. Leaves dusky 
red-brown, lingulate, obtuse or somewhat cuspidate, lax, erecto-patent ; 
twisted when dry ; nerve narrow, scarcely excurrent. Fruitstalk very slender, 
i~ I in. long. Capsule small, ovate-oblong, striated ; inner peristome 32- 
parted ; operculum veiy slender. Calyptra smooth. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, J. 1). H.; Port Nicholson, Lyall (not found in fruit). 
(Australia.) 
2. S. campbelliana, C. Muell. Synops. Muse. i. 753. — S. quadrifida, 
FI. Antarct. i. 126. t. 58. f. 1, not of Bridel. Stems loosely tufted; 
branches |-1^ in. high, rather robust. Leaves red-brown, the upper green, 
spreading, twisted when dry, oblong-lanceolate, contracted in the middle, 
obtuse and emarginate or acute ; nerve excurrent as a slender long mucro, 
concave, not striated. Fruitstalk stout, ^ in. high. Capsule cylindrical, 
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