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TV. MUSCI. 
\Zygodon. 
&. Leaves with the margins denticulate. 
Leaves spreading, subincurved. Capsule immersed 5 . Z. cyathicarpus. 
** Inner teeth conniving in a bell-shaped cone, united by a very short membrane at the 
base (Codouoblepharum, Schwagrichen) . 
Leaves suberect, lingulate, apiculate 6 . Z. Menziesii. 
1. Z. obtusifolius, Hook. Muse. Exot. 1 . 159 ; — Fl.N.Z. ii. 80. Stems 
tufted, in. high. Leaves dull green, loosely erecto-patent, ligulate, obtuse. 
Fruitstalk in. long. Capsule deeply furrowed, 8-ribbed ; peristome 
double ; inner of 8 cilia ; operculum with an inclined beak, ^ as long as the 
capsule. Calyptra roughish above, subplicate below. Inflorescence monoe- 
cious. — Schvvsegr. Suppl. t. 136. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, J. 1). 11., Colenso. (East Indies.) 
2. Z. intermedius, Bruch and Schimper ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 80. Stems 
loosely tufted, slender, |-1 in. high, branching. Leaves pale yellow-green, 
lax, erecto-patent, lanceolate-lingulate, subacute, or oblong-lanceolate; margins 
plane ; nerve ceasing below the apex. Fruitstalk ■§-- } in. long. Capsule ob- 
long, deeply grooved ; more than half as long as the capsule; peristome single, 
outer absent, inner of 8 cilia ; operculum with a slender inclined beak. In- 
florescence dioecious. — Z. conoideus, /3, Hook, and Grev. in Brewst. Journ. Sc. 
i. 132. 
Middle Island : Dusky Bay, Menzies. (Tasmania, Australia, Chili.) 
3. Z. Brownii, Schwcegr. Suppl. t. 317 h\ — FI. N. Z. ii. 81. Stems 
tufted, branched, |-1 in. high. Leaves pale green, spreading, recurved and 
squarrose, oblong, acute ; nerve continuous and excurrent. Fruitstalk very 
slender, f- in. long. Capsule pyriform, furrowed ; peristome double ; 
outer often rudimentary or irregular ; inner of 8 cilia. Inflorescence dioe- 
cious. 
Throughout the Northern and Middle Islands: common. (Australia, Tasmania.) 
4. Z. Reinwardtii, Braun ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 81. Stems short, in. 
high. Leaves yellow-green, spreading, oblong-lanceolate ; margins waved, 
minutely denticulate, keeled ; nerve excurrent; perichsetial shorter. Fruit- 
stalk erect, flexuous, ■§■— | in. long. Capsule subpyriform, sulcate ; peristome 
fugacious or absent (?) in the New Zealand form ; operculum conic, beaked. 
Calyptra large, substriate, coriaceous. Inflorescence hermaphrodite.— 
Schwsegr. Suppl. t. 312 a. Zygodon denticulatus, Tayl. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 
vi. 329. Z. anomalns, Dozy and Molkb. ; FI. Tasman, ii. 185. 
Northern and Middle Islands: Port Nicholson, Sinclair ; Ruahine mountains, 
Colenso ; Southern Alps, Haast ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. (Tasmania, Java, S. Ame- 
rica.) Inner peristome, in Java specimens, of 16 cilia; outer present and fugacious in the 
Tasmanian. 
5. Z. cyathicarpus, Montague, Flor. Chili Crypt. 132. t. 3 ; — FI. N. 
Z. ii. 81. Stems in. high, tufted, rather stout. Leaves pale green, 
spreading, subrecurved, crisped when dry, linear-lanceolate, acute, keeled, 
remotely denticulate ; perichsetial overtooping the capside. Fruitstalk very 
short. Capsule immersed, striate ; peristome 0 ; operculum convex, with a 
short oblique beak. Inflorescence monoecious. — Gymnostomum linearifolium. 
