Cryphcea.'] 
IV. MUSCI. 
451 
2. C. acuminata 9 Hook. f. and Wils. FI. N. Z. ii. 102. t. 88./. 4. 
Stems very short, f in. long, sparingly branched. Leaves dull yellow-green, 
erecto-patent, ovate, long-acuminate, quite entire ; nerve vanishing above the 
middle ; perichsetial larger, setaceous at the apex. Capsules secund, sessile, 
hidden by the perichsetial leaves ; operculum conical, with a short beak. 
Inflorescence monoecious. 
Northern Island : on trees, Hawke’s Bay, etc., Colenso ; Otago, Hector and 
Buchanan. 
8. C. dilatata, Hoo/c.f. and Wils. FI. N. Z. ii. 102. t. 88./. 2. Stems 
2-6 in. long, slender, pendulous, branched ; branches very short, spreading. 
Leaves dull green, spreading, erect when dry, loosely imbricate, broadly 
ovate, obtuse, quite entire, concave ; nerve vanishing below the subcrenulate 
apex ; perichsetial lanceolate ; nerve stronger. Capsules sunk amongst the 
perichsetial leaves, often crowded, scattered or secund ; operculum couic. 
Inflorescence monoecious. 
Northern Island, Colenso. 
4. C. Tasmanica } Mitten in FI. Tasman, ii. 204. t. 175./. 6. Stems 
elongate, naked below, above furnished with short close-set subsecund 
branches. Leaves spreading, orbicular-ovate, acute, margin flat, most mi- 
nutely serrulate ; nerve vanishing below the apex ; perichsetial ovate, then 
subulate. Capsule sunk in the perichsetial leaves ; operculum convex, acute. 
Middle Island : Otago, on trees ?, Hector. (Tasmania.) 
56. CYRTOPUS, Bridel. 
Stem erect, subpinnately branched. Leaves crowded, subsecund or sub- 
erect, serrate, with a stout nerve. Fruitstalk very short. Capsule oblong, 
erect ; peristome of Cladomnion. Operculum beaked. 
The genus Cyrtopus was established as a section of Neckera, by Bridel, upon this and a 
few other plants that have been placed in various genera by subsequent authors. I have 
thought it best in this work to retain it for this plant, which has been referred to five other 
genera, as its synonymy shows. 
1. C. setosus, Bridel, Bryol. ii. 234. — Cladomnion , FI. N. Z. ii. 100. 
Stems erect, flexuous, 6 in. long, nearly simple. Leaves dark greenish, 
crowded, subsecund, rigid, ovate at the base, then subulate with setaceous 
rigid apices, serrate ; nerve solid. Fruitstalk very short. Capsule scarcely 
emerging from the leaves, erect, not grooved, oblong ; teeth red ; operculum 
with the beak shorter than the capsule. Calyptra yellow-brown. — Neckera , 
Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 8. Spiridens, Mitten in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 89. 
Ancectangium, Hedwig, Sp. Muse. 48. t. 5. f. 4, 6. — Filotriclium , C. Muell. 
Northern and Middle Islands: abundant from Bay of Islands, Sinclair, to Dusky 
Bay, Menzies, etc. (Tasmania, South America, Sandwich Islands.) 
57. MESOTUS, Mitten. 
A stout tufted moss ; stem short, creeping, covered with matted rootlets ; 
branches erect, stiff, simple or forked, crowded. Leaves close-set, spreading 
