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Leaves spreading, crisped when dry, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, undulate, 
quite entire ; nerve percurrent. Fruitstalks in. long. Capsule ovoid, 
deeply grooved; outer teeth 16, linear, geminate; inner united into a mem- 
branous lacerate cone ; operculum with a long straight beak. Calyptra 
glabrous, fimbriate to the middle. — Schlotheimia , Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 156. 
Var. /3. Leaves less acuminate, scarcely undulate ; probably a different species. 
Var. j8. Northern Island, Colenso. A doubtful determination. The original plant is a 
native of Ceylon and Nepal. 
2. M. longirostre, Sclnccegr. Suppl. t. 112; — FI. Antarct. t. 126; — 
FI. N. Z. ii. 78. — Branches erect, 1 in. high, crowded. Leaves bright 
yellow-red or bronze, lower black, subrigid, crowded, erecto-patent, twisted 
when dry, linear-lanceolate, very acute, with 2 parallel lines one on each side 
the solid stout nerve, margins recurved ; nerve reddish. Fruitstalk stout, 
rather short, a_a in. long, black. Capsule sulcate, elongate, narrow, almost 
linear-oblong, gradually narrowed into the stout fruitstalk ; peristome single ; 
opercidum with a slender straight beak. Calyptra glabrous, fimbriate half- 
way up. — Ortliotrichum , Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 25. 
Yar. 0. acutifolium, FI. N. Z. 1. c. Leaves more acuminate, with a subexcurrent nerve. 
— Orthotrichum, Hook, and Grev. in Brevvst. Journ. 1. c. t. 5 ; FI. Antarct. 1. c. i. M. Pacci- 
vanum, De Notaris. 
Middle Island : Dusky Bay, Menzies ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. Lord Auck- 
land’s group and Campbell’s Island, J. B. II. Chatham Islaud, Mr. Travers. 
Var. 0. Port Preservation, Lyall. (Tasmania, Chiloe, a form.) 
3. M. longipes, Schweegr. Suppl. t. 139 ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 78. Branches 
elongate, erect, 1-11, in. high. Leaves dull yellow-green, reddish below, 
crowded, erecto-patent, crisped and twisted when dry, linear- or subulate- 
lanceolate, subacute, margin recurved, nerve pale. Fruitstalk very long, 
rarely short, -§•— ]£ in., slender. Capsule elliptic; mouth contracted, plaited ; 
peristome single ; operculum very slender, straight. Calyptra glabrous. — 
Ortliotrichum, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 21. 
Common throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Menzies , etc. (Norfolk 
Island.) 
4. M. asperuhim. Mitten in FI. Tasman, ii. 376. — M. fimbriatum, 
FI. N. Z. ii. 77, not of Palisot. Stem slender, creeping; branches short, 
tufted. Leaves bright red-brown, dense, spreading, incurved when dry, 
ligulate from an oblong base, lower obtuse, upper acute, mucronate by the 
excurrent nerve, margins papillose and rough ; perichsetial shorter, acute. 
Fruitstalk ^ in. long. Capsule ovoid, attenuate below ; peristome 0 ; mouth 
darker, plaited ; operculum conical, acuminate. Calyptra naked. M. micro- 
stomum, FI. N. Z. ii. 79, in part. 
Northern and Middle Islands; common on trunks of trees, etc. (Tasmania.) 
5. M. gracile, Schwoegr. Suppl. t. 112 ;- — FI. N. Z. ii. 78. Stems 
flexuous, slender, sparingly branched, suberect, 1-2 in. long. Leaves pale 
yellow, brown below, brittle, spreading and incurved, flexuous and twisted 
when dry, lanceolate-subulate, cuspidate by the excurrent nerve. Fruitstalk 
•g— j in. long. Capsule ovoid, striate when dry ; peristome single. Calyptra 
glabrous. — M. Mossmanianium, C. Muell. in Bot. Zeit. 1851, 561. Orthotri- 
chum,, Hook. Muse. Exot, t. 27. 
