Fabronia.] 
IV. MUSCl. 
457 
Stems very slender, creeping, with erect branches l in. high, pale green. 
Leaves crowded, subsecund, turned upwards, rather concave, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate; nerve reaching halfway; perichaetial short, 
ovate. Capsule not ribbed, subglobose ; operculum flattish. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, Colenso, J. D. II. (Australia.) 
51. LETJCODON, Bridel. 
Creeping, branched, tufted loosely, rather stout, dioecious mosses, growing 
on rocks and trees ; stems erect, often curved, terete ; branches sometimes 
pendulous. Leaves densely imbricate, usually nerveless, grooved striated or 
smooth; cells long and narrow or dot-like. Fruitstalk lateral. Capsule 
erect, narrow-oblong ; annulus 0 or partial ; teeth 16, connate at the base, 
perforate, 2-3-partite. Operculum conical or rostellate. Calyptra cucullate. 
A considerable genus, of which the species are not much allied to one another, and have 
been variously disposed of by Mitten and others. 
Leaves not plaited or undulate, acuminate and piliferous ; nerves 0 or 2 
short 1 . L. Lagurus. 
Leaves plaited, mneronate, acuminate, nerveless 2. L. implexus. 
Leaves not plaited, obtuse, nerveless 3. L. nitidus. 
1. L. Lagurus, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 126; — El. Antarct. i. 136. 
Stems tufted, creeping, with erect, short, stout branches, \ in. high, covered 
with matted fibrils. Leaves bright green, glossy, closely imbricated, oblong- 
ovate, concave, acuminate and piliferous, not striated ribbed or plaited; 
nerves 0 or short, sometimes 2-nerved to the middle. Fruitstalk 1 in. long. 
Capsule subcylindrical ; teeth united ; operculum with a slender oblicpie beak, 
half as long as the capsule. Calyptra large. Male inflorescence of a few sub- 
globular antheridia, on very slender stems with variable small leaves. — Stereo- 
don, Mitten in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 88. 
Campbell’s Island (barren). (Fuegia and Tasmania.) — Wilson suggests (Bryol. Brit. 
313) removing this from Leucodon under the name of Lampurus. The L. Lagurus, var. j3. 
of ‘Bryologia Britanniea,’ is a species of Hypnum (Mitten). 
2. L. implexus, Kvnze. Tufts dense, soft, bright green, shining, 
covered below with matted rootlets. Leaves imbricate, suberect, oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, piliferous, deeply plaited, quite entire or minutely 
toothed at the apex, nerveless. Fruitstalk short. Capsule erect, cylindric- 
oblong; teeth irregular ; operculum conical, almost beaked. — L. hexastichus, 
Mont. L. Kunzeanus and Neckera implexa, C. Mueller. 
Middle Island : Nelson Mountains, Sinclair ; Otago, on rocks and trees, Hector and 
Buchanan. (Chili.) Determined by Mitten ; the leaves have longer acuminate points than 
in Mueller’s description of the Chili plant. 
3. L. nitidus, Hook.f. and Wits. El. N. Z. ii. 99. t. 87./. 4. Stem about 
1 in. long, procumbent, branches obtuse. Leaves loosely imbricate, oblong, 
obtuse, concave, quite entire, not striate, nerveless, pale green, shining ; mar- 
gins subrecurved ; perichaetial longer, convulute. Fruitstalk i in. long, red. 
Capsule erect, oblong, grooved when dry ; teeth red, irregularly split half- 
way down, trabeculate ; operculum long-beaked. — Stereodon Lyallii, Mitten in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 89. 
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