460 
iv. musci. [ Meteorinm . 
3. M. flexicaule, Hook. f. and Wils. FI. N. Z. ii. 101. Stems 
pendulous, flexuous, very slender indeed, 4-10 in. long. Leaves dull yellow 
or brownish, loosely imbricate ovate-cordate or subspathulate, shortly acumi- 
nate, concave, not striated, margin quite entire except at the obscurely-toothed 
base ; nerve produced to the middle. — Trachypus jlexicaulis, Mitten, 1. c. 
Leskea Jlexicaulis, Taylor. 
Northern and Middle Islands, Dr. Stanger ; Hawke’s Bay, Colenso; Wellington, 
Stephenson ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan ; Nelson, Travers. (Tasmania, Andes.) 
4. M. pusillum, Hook. f. and Wils. FI. N. Z. ii. 101. t. 88./. 1. 
Minute ; stems very slender, weak, 1 in. long. Leaves dull green, loosely 
imbricate, suberect when dry, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, margin quite 
entire, subrecurved ; nerve very short ; perichaetial erect, lanceolate. Fruit- 
stalk i in. long. Capsule half as long as the fruitstalk, ovoid, 8-grooved, 
pale ; operculum coniqpl, very short. 
Northern Island : Wairarapa valley, Colenso. 
5. M. nitens, Hook.f. and Wils. FI..N. Z. ii. 101. t. 87./ 7. Stem 
1-2 in. long, creeping, then pendulous, slender ; branches numerous, short, 
ascending, hi. long. Leaves shining, yellow-green, crowded, erect when 
dry, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, margin subrecurved, minutely denticulate, 
somewhat striate ; nerve vanishing about or above the middle ; cells very 
narrow. 
Northern Island, Sinclair. — A scrap without habitat or fruit. 
55. CRYPHiEA, Mohr. 
Slender, monoecious, creeping on trees or rocks ; branches erect or pendu- 
lous, somewhat pinnately divided. Leaves imbricate, ovate, quite entire, 
nerved ; cells very minute, like dots. Fruitstalk lateral, extremely short, 
hidden by the perichaetial leaves. Capsule erect, narrow-oblong ; annulus 
present ; peristome double ; outer 16 narrow erect teeth ; inner 16 filiform free 
cilia. Operculum conical. Calyptra very small, mitriform, conic, glabrous, 
scarcely covering the operculum. 
A genus of several tropical and temperate species. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, quite entire ; perichaetial piliferous .... 1 . C. parvula. 
Leaves broadly ovate, long-acuminate, quite entire 2. C. acuminata. 
Leaves very broadly ovate, obtuse, quite entire 3. C. dilatata. 
Leaves orbicular-ovate, acute, minutely serrulate 4. C. Tasmanica. 
* 1. C. parvula. Mitten, mss. — C. consimilis, FI. N. Z. ii. 101, not of 
Montagne. Stems creeping, 1-2 in. long ; branches distant, spreading, fili- 
form. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, margin quite entire, subrecurved ; 
nerve nearly continuous ; perichaetial broadly obovate, refuse, suddenly pro- 
duced into a piliferous acuminate point. Fruitstalk scarcely visible. Cap- 
sule ovoid ; operculum conical, acute. Calyptra red-brown, rough at the 
apex. Inflorescence monoecious. 
Northern Island : Wairarapa valley, Colenso ; Otago , Hector and Buchanan. (Tas- 
mania, Australia.) — Very near the Chilian C. consimilis, but differing in the perichaetial 
leaves exceeding the operculum, and in the wider cauline leaves (Mitten). 
