478 iv. Mtrsci. \Kypnum. 
Northern Island: in various localities, Sinclair and Colenso ; Auckland, Knight. 
Middle Island: Otago, Hector and Buchanan. (Tasmania, S. America?) 
F. CONFEKTA. 
34. H. tenuifolium, Hedw. — H. confer turn, FI. N. Z. ii. 108, not of 
Smith. Stems matted, small, slender, arching, prostrate and ascending, 
pinnately branched, 1-2 in. long ; branches compressed, long or short. 
Leaves dark green, subsecund, ovate-cordate, acuminate, serrulate, concave ; 
nerve produced beyond the middle ; cells linear ; perichaetial recurved, long- 
acuminate. Fruitstalk £-l£ in. high, smootli. Capsule cernuous, ovoid- 
oblong, curved; operculum with along slender beak. Inflorescence monoe- 
cious. — FI. collatum, Hook. f. and Wils. FI. Tasm. ii. 209. t. 176. f. 5. 
Northern and Middle Islands : common on trunks of trees, from the Bay of Islands, 
J. D. H., to Otago, Lyall. (Tasmania.) — I follow Mitten in referring this to the little- 
known H. tenuifolium (which is described as having quite entire leaves) ; the same author 
thinks it is probably a large form of the European H. confertum. 
‘ / 35. FI. elusum, Mitten, mss. Stems depressed, subpinnately branched. 
Leaves spreading, somewhat compressed, broadly ovate, suddenly contracted 
to an acuminate apex, minutely serrulate above ; nerve slender, produced to 
the middle ; pericluetial ovate-subulate, with reflexed apices, nerveless. 
Fruitstalk red, smooth. Capsule inclined, unequal ; operculum subulate, 
beaked. Inflorescence monoecious. 
Middle Island : N.E. valley, Otago, Hector and Buchanan. — Mitten describes this as 
having the appearance of H. muricnlatum, from which its smooth fruitstalk distinguishes 
it ; and as differing from IT. tenuifolium in its smaller size and suddenly acuminate leaves. 
38. El. aristatum, Hook. f. and Wits. Ft. Tasm. ii. 210. t. 176. f. 6. 
Stems small, tufted, 1-2 in. long, pinnately branched; branches slender, 
attenuate. Leaves dark green, not glossy, spreading, subcoin pressed, lax and 
flexuous when dry, oblong-acuminate and piliferous at the apex, serrulate, 
concave; margin not reflexed ; nerve distinct, produced beyond the middle; 
perichaetial erect, acuminate. Fruitstalk 1 in. long, smooth. Capsule 
cernuous, arcuate, oblong ; annulus small, adhaerent ; operculum with a short 
beak. Inflorescence monoecious. 
Northern and Middle Islands: Auckland, Knight ; Saddle Hill, Otago, Lindsay. 
(Australia, Tasmania.) 
G. Rutabula. 
37. El. rutabulum, Linn.; — FI. N. Z. ii. 109. Stems rather stout, 
1-3 in. long, suberect or prostrate, vaguely or subpinnately branched ; 
branches erect, flexuous, very variable in length. Leaves pale, very shining, 
membranous, loosely imbricate, spreading, ovate, acuminate, concave, sub- 
siriate, subserrulate ; nerve produced beyond the middle; perichaetial strongly 
recurved. Fruitstalk stout, rough. Capsule ovoid-oblong, cernuous ; oper- 
culum short, conical. Inflorescence monoecious. — Wils. Bryol. Brit. 345. t. 
26 ; FI. Antarct. i. 138. 
Northern and Middle Islands : in woods and on rocks, probably common, Bay of 
Islands, J. B. H . ; Canterbury, Haast. ; Akaroa, Raoul ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan 
Campbell’s Island, J. D. H. (Tasmania, Europe, N. aud*S. America.) 
