Meesia.] 
IV. MUSCI. 
445 
vanishing below the apex ; perichaetial large. Fruitstalk long, slender. 
Capsule pyriform, curved ; outer teeth short, obtuse ; inner of long regular 
keeled processes ; operculum conic, obtuse. Inflorescence monoecious ; male 
on short branches, surrounded with broad perigonial leaves. 
Middle Island : Otago, on open ground, Hector and Buchanan. (Alps of Victoria.) 
39. CONOSTOMUM, Swartz. 
Densely tufted, erect, bright green, dioecious or monoecious mosses, grow- 
ing on the ground. Stems covered with radicles. Leaves closely imbricate, 
erect, narrow ; nerve excurrent; cells minute, square. Fruitstalk terminal. 
Capsule inclined, globose, grooved; mouth small; annulus 0; teeth 16, 
narrow-subulate, conniving in a cone and joined by their tips. Operculum 
conic and beaked. Calyptra cucullate. 
An Arctic and Antarctic genus, also found on the lofty mountains of temperate and 
tropical zones. It has been united with Bartramia § Philonotis by modern authors, but I 
follow Wilson in keeping it distinct. 
Nerve broad 1.0. australe. 
Nerve slender 2. 0. pusillum. 
1. C. australe, Swartz ; — FI. If. Z. ii. 87. Stems erect, branched, 
densely tufted, -§—1 in. high. Leaves erect, most densely imbricate, linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, upper piliferous ; nerve broad, excurrent. Fruitstalk 
1-1 1 in. high. Capsule inclined, eubglobose ; operculum obliquely rostrate. 
Inflorescence monoecious. — Schwsegr. Suppl. t. 130 ; FI. Antarct. 132 and 
411.' Philonotis, Mitten in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 81. 
Northern and Middle Islands: Ruahine mountains, Colenso ; Canterbury Alps, 
Haast, Travers ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. Lord Auckland’s group and Camp- 
bell’s Head : common on the hills, J. 1). H. (Tasmania, Fuegia, Andes.) 
2. C. pusillum. Hook. f. and Wits. FI. N. Z. ii. 88. t. 86. /. 2. 
Stems in. high, loosely tufted. Leaves suberect, laxly imbricate, yellow- 
green, not appressed when dry, lanceolate, acuminate, piliferous ; margin 
recurved, doubly serrate ; nerve slender, excurrent ; cells lax. Fruitstalk 
pale, f in. long. Capsule suberect, pale, furrowed when dry; teeth 
slender, red ; operculum not half as long as the capsule, beak inclined. 
Calyptra brown. Inflorescence monoecious. — C. parvulum, Hampe in 
Linnaea. Philonotis, Mitten, 1. c. 
Northern and Middle Islands: tops of the Ruahine mountains, Colenso; Otago, 
Hector and Buchanan. (An alpine, Tasmanian, and Australian moss.) 
40. CRYPTOPODIUM, Bridel. 
A rather large, loosely tufted, erect, branching, dioecious moss, growing on 
rocks and trees. Stems curved, covered with leaves throughout their length. 
Leaves long, erecto-patent, subsecund, sharply serrate; cells dense, square. 
Fruitstalks shorter than the capsules, often crowded, terminal on lateral 
shoots. Capsule ovoid, erect, smooth ; annulus 0 ; mouth large ; peristome 
double; outer of 16 lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed (when dry) teeth; inner 
a membrane split into 16 imperforate teeth, with often cilia between them. 
Operculum convex, apiculate. Calyptra cucullate. Inflorescence dioecious, 
