Neckera.'] 
IV. MUSCI. 
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1. IV. pennata, Hedicig ; — FI: N. Z. ii. 103. Stems pinnately branched. 
Leaves bright green, shining, undulate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate 
at the apex ; nerve very short and inconspicuous; inner pericli setial narrow- 
lanceolate, acuminate. Capsule hidden by the leaves ; operculum with a 
short beak. Calyptra small, scarcely covering the operculum. Inflorescence 
monoecious. — N. liymenodonta, C. Muell. ; Wils. Bryol. Brit. 414. t. 34. 
Northern and Middle Islands : Wangera and Wawari, on trunks of trres, Colenso ; 
Auckland, Knight ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. (Europe, Asia, and America.) 
2. 1ST. laevigata, Hoolc. f. and Wils. FI. N. Z. ii. 103. t. 88. ,/. 3. 
Stems 1 in. and more high, pinnately branched, 2-4 in. long. Leaves bright 
green, loosely imbricate, not undulate, rather rigid, oblong, very obtuse, quite 
entire, convex ; nerve short. Fruitstalk imbricating, convolute, lanceolate, 
sheathing the fruitstalk, which is ^ in. long. Capsule exserted. 
Middle Island: Banks’s Peninsula, Lyall; Queensland Bush, Otago, Martin (lib. 
Lindsay), Hector and Buchanan. 
60. TRACHYLOMA, Bridel. 
Stems stout, erect from a creeping rhizome, tree-like, flattened, pinnately 
branched above. Leaves distichous, not oblique, flattened, nerve indistinct ; 
cells minute. Fruitstalk slender. Capsule erect, straight or slightly curved, 
oblong or cvlindric ; annulus 0; peristome double, outer 16, narrow, 
coriaceous, nodose teeth ; inner 16, narrow, keeled, nodose cilia united by a 
membrane at the base ; operculum with a long, straight beak. Calyptra 
cucullate. 
A considerable genus in tropical and temperate regions. 
1. T. planifolium, Bridel; — FI. JST. Z. ii. 103. Stems stout, erect, 
about 3 in. high, rising from a stout creeping rhizome. Leaves bright-green, 
shining, distichous, erecto-patent, ovate, serrate at the tip ; nerve very faint, 
their length; perichcetial long, narrow, serrate. Fruitstalk ^ in. long and 
upwards, flexuous, often curved at the top. Capsule erect, subcylindric, 
equal or slightly unequal ; outer teeth ^ the length of the capsule, pale 
yellow, incurved w T hen dry ; inner almost white ; operculum conic-subulate. 
■ — Neckera pla.nifolia, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 23 (scarcely of Hedwig). 
Northern and Middle Islands : from Bay of Islands ( Wilkes's Exped.) and Waikehi, 
Sinclair, to Dusky Bay, Menzies, and Hector and Buchanan. 
61. ISOTHECILTM, Bridel. 
Stout, stiff, erect, tree-like, dioecious mosses. Stem rising from a creeping 
rhizome ; branched (often pinnately) above, naked belorv. Leaves inserted 
all round the branches, usually spreading or squarrose, nerveless or 1-2-nerved, 
often serrate ; cells minute, dense. Fruitstalks lateral, often crowded towards 
the top of the stem, long or short, straight or curved at the top. Capsule 
erect or cernuous, straight or curved ; annulate ; peristome double ; outer of 
16 lanceolate teeth, each marked with a middle line, reflexed when dry, 
trabeculate in the inner surface; inner a membrane deeply divided into 16 
cilia, with or without interposed cilia. Operculum conic or beaked. Ca- 
lyptra cucullate. 
