44B 
IV. MUSCI. 
[Bartramia. 
lately branched ; branches slender, recurved. Leaves pale, glaucous, dis- 
tant, spreading, rather crisped when dry, papillose, ovate or lanceolate, 
acuminate with long points, serrulate ; margin plane ; nerve slender, pellucid, 
excurrent ; perichaetial longer, erect or spreading, almost aristate at the 
point. Fruit stalk stout, 1 in. long, red. Capsule suberect. Inflorescence 
dioecious . — Philonotis appressa, Mitten in Linn. Soc. Journ. iv. 81. B. 
ex'ujua , Sullivant in Mosses of U. S. Expl. Exped. 11. t. 8. B. pusillo, 
Sulliv. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 316. Hypnum scubrifolium, El. Antarct. 
138. t. 60. f. 6. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, Falls of the Waitangi, J. D. H. ; Wairarapa valley, 
Colenso. Middle Island : Otago, Hector. Lord Auckland’s group, Lya/l. The 
name appressa was abandoned as being uusuited to the female plant, which has spreading 
7/B. australis. Mitten, mss. Stems tufted, 1-2 in. high. Leaves 
spreading or subsecund, broad, lanceolate from a truncate base, gradually 
attenuated ; margins serrulate ; nerve excurrent, toothed at the back and 
apex; cells all elongate, papillose; perichaetial ovate at the base. Fruitstalk 
long, slender. Capsule curved, reniform, plaited ; mouth decurved ; teeth 
red, inner yellow. Inflorescence dioecious. 
Middle Island: Alps of Canterbury, Travers, and of Otago, Hector and Buchanan. — 
Allied to B. catcarea, but the leaves are gradually narrowed from the base upwards, the 
cells narrower, and margins not recurved. Mitten. 
8. B. tenuis, Taylor in Phytoloyist, 1844, p. 1095. — B. uncinata, 
Schwaeg. ; Marehtca, Brid. ; and radicalis, Palisot, — FI. N. Z. ii. 89. Stems 
short, slender ; branches fascicled, very slender, often curved. Leaves crowded, 
subfalcate, secund, spreading, narrow, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate with a long 
point ; margin flat or slightly recurved, serrulate ; nerve excurrent ; peri- 
chsetial erect, with a setaceous point. Fruitstalk 1 in. long. Capsule 
cernuous ; cilia of inner peristome connected at their apices (in Tasmanian 
specimens). Inflorescence dioecious; male capitulate. — FI. Tasman, ii. 193. 
t. 174. f. 4 ; C. Muell. in Bot. Zeit. 1851, 552. 
Northern aDd Middle Islands : abundant in wet places. Kermadec Islands, 
Milne. (Tasmania, Australia, Norfolk Island, Tristan d’Acuuha.) 
9. B. afimis, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 176; — FI. N. Z. ii. 90. Stems 
sparingly branched, 1-2 in. high ; branches fascicled. Leaves crowded, 
erecto-patent, appressed when dry, strict, ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a 
very slender point, margin much recurved, quite entire ; nerve stout. Fruit- 
stalk \ in. high. Capsule ovoid, pendulous ; operculum conical, acuminate.- 
Inflorescence dioecious ; male discoid. — Schwsegr. Suppl. t. 137. 
Northern and Middle Islands : Manakan Bay on scoriae, Colenso ; Auckland, Knight ; 
Nelson, Travers ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. (Tasmania and Australia.) 
10. B. pendula, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 21 ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 90. Stems 
tall, stout, 2-4 in. long, tomentose; branches fascicled, slender. Leaves 
spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate ; nerve excurrent. Fruit- 
stalk slender, 1 in. high. Capsule pendulous, oblong-clavate, grooved. — 
Schwregr. Suppl. t. 239. FI. Antarct. 133 and 412. 
Abundant throughout the islands, Menzies , etc., and in Campbell’s Island, J. I). H. 
(Tasmania, Fuegia.) 
