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spreading or secund, broad and sheathing at the base, suddenly contracted to 
a linear very long subulate blade, doubly serrulate ; nerve continuous. Fruit- 
stalk very short, on side shoots, hence appearing lateral. Capsules immersed, 
often 2 together, much overlapped by the leaves ; operculum conical. In- 
florescence monoecious. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 281. t. 23. B. Mcssmaniana, 
C. Muell. in Bot. Zeit. 1851, 551. 
Northern aud Middle Islands : on rocks and trees, Ruahine range to Lake Waikare, 
Colensn ; Nelson mountains, Travers ; rocks and banks, Otago, Hector and Buchanan. 
(Europe, N. and S. America, Euegia, Australia, and Tasmania, mountains of India and Africa.) 
2. B. papillata, Hook.f. and Wils. FI. N. Z. ii. 89. t. 86./. 4. Stems 
1 in. high, sparingly branched. Leaves yellow-green, crowded, patent or 
erecto-patent, striate, more or less crisped when dry, subulate, with an ob- 
ovate sheathing base, minutely serrulate, papillose at the back ; nerve solid. 
Fruitstalk ^ in. long, appearing lateral from terminating short lateral shoots. 
Capsule inclined, subglobose ; operculum small, convex. Inflorescence 
dioecious. — B. acerosa, Hampein Linnaea. B. fragilis, Mitten in Linn. Soc. 
Journ. iv. 81. 
Northern and Middle Islands : Bay of Islands, Falls of tlie Waitangi, J. D. IT. ; 
base of Tongariro and Ruahine range, Colenso ; Nelson, Travers ; Otago, on banks, etc., 
Hector and Buchanan. (Australia and Tasmania.) — Very near the European B. ithyphyl/a. 
M. Mitten informs me that his B.fragilis is a state with denser foliage. 
3. B. patens, B ridel ; — FI. Antarct. 133. Stems erect, short, sparingly 
branched. Leaves spreading, light yellow-brown when dry, lax, rigid, 
linear or setaceous from a broader sheathing base, acuminate, serrulate ; 
nerve broad, green. Fruitstalk \ in. long. Capsule oblique, broadly ob- 
long ; operculum convex, shortly beaked. 
Middle Island : Otago, Hector and. Buchanan ; Campbell’s Island, rocks on the 
hills (barren), J. D. H. — Closely allied to B . papillata. (Fuegia.) 
4. B. robusta, Hook.f. and Wils. FI. Antarct. 133. t. 59./ 4. Stems 
erect, loosely tufted, 1 in. high, very stout. Leaves yellow-green, dense, 
rigid, spreading, rather fragile ; base short, oblong, obovate-quadrate, 
sheathing ; blade long, subulate, acuminate, serrulate ; nerve very broad and 
stout, covering the w r hole breadth of the upper part of leaf. Fruitstalk stout, 
red, f in. long. Capsule erect, globose, brown; peristome not seen; oper- 
culum conical, rostrate, yellow. Inflorescence dioecious. 
Ii uckland’s group and Campbell’s Island : moist places in the hills, J. I). H. 
5 yfe. crassinervia. Mitten, mss. Stems very short, tufted, branched. 
Leaves spreading, not sheathing at the base, which is subovate ; blade 
lanceolate, acuminate ; margins recurved, serrulate ; nerve very broad, toothed 
at the back and apex ; lower cells long, upper quadrate ; perichsetial broader. 
Fruitstalk short, red. Capsule subglobose, unequal, plaited ; teeth narrow, 
red ; operculum convex, apiculate. Inflorescence hermaphrodite. 
Middle Island : Fagus forest, on the Hopkins, alt. 2500-3500 ft., Haast. — Allied to 
the European B. gracilis , but the nerve is thick, broad, and occupies one-fourth of the width 
of the leaf. 
6. B. remotifolia, Hook.f. and Wils. FI. Tasman, ii. 193. 1. 174./ 3. 
— B. appressa, FI. N. Z. ii. 89. t. 86. f. 5. Stems short, slender, fascicu- 
