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IV. MUSCI. 
[Bryum. 
the serrulate apex. Fruitstalk 1-2 in. long. Capsule pendulous, shortly 
pyriform ; annulus 0 ; teeth rather large ; operculum convex or subconical, 
mamillate. Inflorescence dioecious. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 227. t. 47 ; FI. 
Antarct. 134, 414. B. albescens, auct. 
Middle Island : Otago, Hector and Buchanan. Stewart's Island, Lyall. Lord 
Auckland’s group (barren), Lyall. (Common in the temperate and cold parts of the 
N. and S. hemisphere.) 
7. B. crudum, Schreber. Loosely caespitose, glaucous-green, glossy 
and transparent. Lower leaves broadly ovate-lanceolate, entire, upper longer, 
ovate-lanceolate, uppermost linear-lanceolate, flexuose ; nerve vanishing below 
the serrate apex. Fruitstalk reddish, flexuose. Capsule suberect, cernuous, 
oblong or obovate-pyriform ; operculum convex, apiculate. Inflorescence 
in Europe hermaphrodite or dioecious. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 224. t. 28. 
Middle Island : Canterbury Alps, Haast and Sinclair. (Europe, N. America, India, 
Pi ‘ .) A beautiful moss. 
'o. B. eximium. Mitten, mss. Inflorescence lax. Stems simple, flaccid, 
2-3 in. long. Leaves larger, i in. long, uniform, spreading on all sides, 
bright green, lax, sometimes deflexed, ovate-oblong or linear-oblong, acute, 
concave ; nerve percurrent ; margin indistinctly bordered, obscurely serrate ; 
cells small, oblong. Fruit uuknown. 
Northern Island, Kerr (Herb. Mitten ) ; Middle Island, N. E. valley, Otago, Hector 
and Buchanan. 
9. B. obconicum, Ilornsch. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 85. Stems with lateral 
shoots. Leaves clustered at the top of the stem, erecto-patent, not twisted 
wdien dry, oblong-ovate, acuminate, serrulate at the apex ; margin slightly 
thickened, recurved ; nerve opaque, keeled, excurrent, spinulose at the apex. 
Fruitstalk curved at the top. Capsule drooping, clavate, curved, with a long 
neck, which tapers into the fruitstalk ; operculum convex, mamillate. In- 
florescence dioecious. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 239. t. 49. 
Northern Island : Auckland, Sinclair. (Europe, Australia, S. Africa.) 
10. B. laevigatum, Hook. f. and Wils. FI. Antarct. 415. t. 154./. 3. 
— B. crassinerve, Hook. f. and Wils. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 83. Stems ^-2 in. 
long, tomentose with purple root-fibres. Leaves pale yellow-green, erecto- 
patent, erect and crisped when dry, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse or acute, 
subserrulate towards the recurved apex, very concave, rather coriaceous ; 
margin reflexed ; nerve solid, continuous. Fruitstalk 1 in. long. Capsule 
pendulous, narrow-pyriform, not curved; operculum conical, obtuse. In- 
florescence dioecious. 
Northern aud Middle Islands: Auckland, Sinclair-, Canterbury, Travers; Otago, 
Hector and Buchanan. (Australia, Fuegia.) 
11. B. nutans, Schreb. ; — FI. Antarct. 134. Stems |-2 in. high. 
Leaves spreading ; upper narrow-lanceolate, serrate towards the apex ; lower 
shorter, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire ; nerve strong, continuous. Fruitstalk 
slender. Capsule nodding or pendulous, oblong-pyriform ; operculum large, 
convex, papillose. Inflorescence monoecious ; antheridia in pairs in the axils 
of the perichsetial leaves. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 225. t. 29. 
Northern Island, Kerr ( in Herb. Mitten). Middle Island : top of Kaikerai hill, 
Otago, Lindsay ; Canterbury, Haast. 
