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IV. MUSCl. 
[< Cryptopodium . 
1. C. bartramioid.es, Brid. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 88. Stems 2-6 in. high, 
long, curved, rigid, sparingly branched. Leaves linear-subidate, with broad 
sheathing bases, doubly spinulose-serrate ; nerve solid. Capsules often 3 
together, sunk amongst the leaves. — Bryum, bartramioides , Hook. Muse. 
Exot. t. 18. 
Northern and Middle Islands: Rnahine mountains, Coleuso ; Pelonis, Jolliffe ; 
Dusky Bay, Menzies; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. — This fine moss has the habit and 
dense opaque foliage of a Bartramia, but the unstriated large-mouthed capsule of Bryum. 
Mitten considers it a congener of Spiridens. 
41. BARTRAMIA, Hedwig. 
Small or large, densely or loosely tufted, usually erect mosses, growing on 
trees, rocks, and earth. Branches fascicled, and stems often covered with 
matted radicles. Leaves narrow, rigid, serrate, papillose ; nerve strong, con- 
tinuous or excurrent. Cells small, square. Eruitstalk terminal. Capsule 
usually globose, furrowed when dry, erect, inclined or drooping; mouth con- 
tracted; annulus 0 ; peristome 0, or single or double ; outer of 16 lanceo- 
late red smooth teeth, marked with a central line, incurved when dry ; inner 
16 broad keeled teeth, with 2-fid pointed tips, with or without alternating 
cilia. Operculum short, flat. Calyptra small, cucullate. 
A large genus of mosses, common in alpine and subalpine localities, rare or absent in hot 
ones. Some of the species here described are excessively near one another. 
A. Stems irregularly dichotomously branched. Leaves spreading, not striate. Inflo- 
rescence monoecious or dioecious. 
* Capsule hidden amongst the leaves 1 . B. Halleriana. 
** Capsule exserted. 
Leaf-sheath oblong, blade subulate 2. B. papillata. 
Leaf-sheath broad ; blade linear 3 . B. patens. 
Leaf-sheath obovate-quadrate, blade subulate 4 . B. robusta. 
Leaf not sheathing; nerve very broad, excurrent 5. B. crassinervia. 
B. Branches fascicled. Leaves not striate. Inflor. dioecious (Philonotis). 
* Leaves serrulate, margins flat. 
Leaves lanceolate, distant, perichsetial with long points . . . 6 . B. remotifolia. 
Leaves subulate-lanceolate, perichaetial subulate 7 . B. australis. 
** Leaves serrulate, margins recurved 8. B. tenuis. 
*** Leaves quite entire 9 . B. ajflnis. 
C. Leaves sheathing, distinctly plaited. Inflor. dioecious (Breutelia). 
* Branches densely fascicled. 
Capsule pen dulons; upper cells of leaf short 10. B.pendula. 
Capsule pendulous ; upper cells of leaf elongated II. B. Sieberi. 
Capsule erect or incurved 12. B. comosa. 
** Branches sparingly fascicled. 
Sides of sheathing base of leaf rounded 13. B. divaricata. 
Sides of sheathing base of leaf angled 14. B. consimilis. 
*'** Stems dichotomously branched 15. B. ? elongata. 
1. B. Halleriana, Hedwig ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 88. Stems loosely tufted, 
tall, 1-2 in. high, subfastigiately branched. Leaves bright yellow-green, 
