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IV. MTJSCI, 
\Bryum. 
Jolliffe ; Nelson, Travers. (Australia, Tasmania, Europe, S. Africa.) Apparently scarcely 
diff from B. birnum. 
Xl . B. mucronatum. Mitten, mss. Steins tufted, brandling with inno- 
vations, 1 in. high. Leaves spreading, oblong, acuminate, with a subre- 
curved mucro ; nerve brown, percurrent or excurrent ; margins rather thick- 
ened, quite entire ; cells large, soft. Fruitstalk elongate. Capsule elongate, 
pyriform ; neck arched, horizontal or pendulous ; peristome complete ; oper- 
culum convex. Inflorescence hermaphrodite. ( Mitten ). 
Middle Island: Canterbury Alps, Haast ; Otago, in open ground, Sector and Bu- 
chanan. M. Mitten observes that this comes very near indeed to the European B. uligi- 
nor"™ differing in the inflorescence and peristome. 
ZS. B. curvicollum, Mitten, mss. — B. clavatum. Hook. f. and Wils. ; 
— El. N. Z. ii. 84. t. 85. f. 3, not of Schimper. Stems ^ in. high, tomentose 
with brown radicles. Leaves erecto-patent, incurved, firm, rather opaque, 
ovate or oblong-lanceolate, very concave, cuspidate, quite entire ; nerve stout, 
excurrent. Fruitstalk short, -g- in. long, red-brown. Capsule suberect or 
nodding or pendulous, curved, long, narrow, oblong-clavate ; operculum 
subconical. Inflorescence dioecious. 
Var. /8. extenuatum, El. N. Z. 1. c. Leaves spreading, hardly incurved. Fruitstalk 
longer. Capsule longer, less pendulous. 
Var. y. Capsule suherect ; inner peristome adnate to the outer. 
Northern and Middle Islands: Bay of Islands, Logan; Cape Turnagain, Colenso ; 
Southern Alps, Haast ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. — Var. /3. East Cape, Sinclair, Co- 
lenso. — Var. y. Manawata river, Colenso. (Var. a. also found in Tasmania and Tristan 
d’Acunha.) 
19. B. creberrimum, Tayl.; — FI. N. Z. ii. 84. Stems 1 in. high, with 
long shoots. Leaves olive-green, lax, suberect, when dry erect, twisted and 
flexuous, lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat keeled ; margin subrecurved, quite 
entire ; nerve slender, excurrent as a very fine hair-point. Fruitstalk slender, 
flexuose ; capsule nodding or pendulous, long, slender, subcylindric, narrowed 
into the slender apophysis ; operculum convex, mamillate. Inflorescence 
dioecious. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands and Auckland, Sinclair, Jolliffe, etc. (Australia.) 
20. B. crassum, Hook. f. and Wils. FI. N. Z. ii. 86. t. 86. /. 1. 
Stems elongate, rigid, naked and tomentose, with fibrils at the base, ^ to 1 
in. long. Leaves crowded at the tops of the stems, closely imbricate and 
appressed when dry ; lower minute, scale-like ; upper coriaceous, ovate-oblong, 
acute, concave ; margin recurved, quite entire (serrulate at the tip ?) ; nerve 
stout, scarcely excurrent. Fruitstalk f in. high, arched at the top. Cap- 
sule pendulous, narrow-oblong, pyriform or subcylindric, scarcely narrowed 
into the fruitstalk ; operculum hemispherical or subconical, apiculate. In- 
florescence dioecious. 
Northern Island: Manakau Bay, on scoriae, Colenso. (Tasmania.) 
21. B. caespiticium, Linn. Tufts compact, dark green or yellowish, 
stems and branches covered with matted radicles. Leaves erecto-patent, 
straight when dry, terminal larger, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; 
margin reflexed, entire or serrulate at the tip ; nerve excurrent. Fruitstalk 
