Bryum.] 
IV. MUSCI. 
441 
Lord Auckland’s group : peaty soil on the hills (barren), J. D. II. (Europe, Tas- 
mania.) 
12. B. argenteum^ Linn. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 84. Stems very short, |-1 
in. high. Leaves silvery or glaucous, very pale and glistening, imbricate, 
broadly ovate or oblong, concave, obtuse and apiculate or acuminate, quite 
entire ; nerve vanishing beyond the middle ; cells large and lax. Fruitstalk 
rather short, dark red. Capsule small, ovoid or oblong, pendulous, blood- 
red ; operculum mam dlate. Inflorescence dioecious. — FI. Antarct. 413 ; Wils. 
Eryol. Brit. 247. t. 29. 
Middle Island, Lyall ; probably common throughout the islands. (Europe, Tasmania, 
America, India, Australia, Falkland Islands, in Cockbum Island, at the extreme southern 
limit of terrestrial vegetation, lat. 64° S.) 
13. B. blandum, Hook./, and Wils. FI. Antarct. 134. t. 60./. 1 ; — FI. 
N. Z. ii. 83. Stems tufted, 1 in. high, sparingly branched, flaccid. Leaves 
upper pale yellow-green, shining, lower reddish, loosely imbricate, suberect, 
oppressed when dry, oblong, obtuse, quite entire, very concave ; margin not 
reflexed ; nerve slender, reddish, not quite continuous to the tip ; cells large, 
lax. Fruitstalk 1 in. long. Capsule clavate-pyriform, cernuous. Inflores- 
cence dioecious. 
Northern and Middle Islands : probably common, Makororo river, Colenso ; Bay of 
Islands, J. I). II. (a lurid variety) ; Auckland, Knight ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. 
Campbell’s Island, in bogs (barren), J. ID. H. A beautiful moss, also found in Tas- 
mania. 
14. B. tenuifolium, HooJc. f. and Wils. FI. N. Z. ii. 83. t. 85. /. 5. 
Stems short, simple, in. high. Leaves pale green, erect or subsecund, 
subulate-lanceolate, acuminate ; margin recurved, quite entire ; nerve solid, 
excurrent ; perichaetial longer, slender. Fruitstalk pale. Capsule almost 
pendulous, oblong, straight or curved, obconic at the base ; operculum 
conical ; inner peristome inconstant. Inflorescence dioecious. 
Northern Island, Colenso ; Bay of Islands, on clay banks, J. D. II. 
15. B. bimum, Schreb. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 85. Stems |~3 in. high, matted 
by purple radicles. Leaves yellowish-green, spreading, rather twisted when 
dry, ovate-lanceolate, keeled ; margin recurved, quite entire ; nerve excurrent. 
Fmitstalk 2 in. long. Capsule pendulous, obovate-pyriform or obconical, 
brown ; operculum large, convex, raamillate. Inflorescence hermaphrodite. 
— FI. Antarct. 413; Wils. Bryol. Brit. 238. t. 49. 
Northern and Middle Islands : Hawke’s Bay, in marshes, Colenso ; Banks’s Peninsula, 
Jolliffe ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. (Kerguelen’s Land, Tasmania, Europe.) 
16. B. torquescens, Bruch and Schhnp. ; — FI. Tasman, ii. 190. Stems 
matted, covered with radicles. Leaves much crisped when dry ; -lower rather 
distant, narrow-lanceolate, keeled ; margins reflexed ; upper crowded, oblong- 
lanceolate, all concave, quite entire; nerve excurrent. Fruitstalk 2 in. 
high, curved at the top. Capsule drooping or pendulous, subincurved, 
narrow-obconic, with a tapering neck, red-brown ; operculum convex, broad, 
mamillate, purple, shining. Inflorescence hermaphrodite. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 
239. t. 49. 
• Northern and Middle Islands: Auckland, Knight ; Hokianga and Banks’s Peninsula, 
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