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conical. Inflorescence monoecious ; male fl. : amongst or upon the leaves of 
the fertile stem. 
Middle Island: moist forests, Port William, Lyall; Chain Hills, Ctago, Lindsay; 
Nelson, Travers ; Canterbury, Haast. (Tasmania, Australia.) 
48. H. chlamydophyllum, Hook.f. and Wils. Fl. Antarct. t. 61./. 1 ; 
— Fl. N. Z. ii. 111. Stems prostrate, 1-2 in. long, sparingly vaguely branched, 
cylindrical ; branches long, erect, simple, cuspidate. Leaves pale green, 
shining, spreading, imbricate, orbicular-subquadrate, rounded at the apex, 
auricled at the base, quite entire, concave and inflated ; nerves 1 or 2, very 
short ; cells narrow-oblong ; perichsetia] erect. Fruitstalk slender, 1-| in. 
long, smooth. Capsule cernuous or horizontal, narrow, ovoid-oblong ; oper- 
culum short, beaked. Inflorescence monoecious. — H. auriculatum, Montague. 
Northern Island : abundant in moist woods in the interior, Colenso. Middle Island : 
Dusky Bay, Menzies ; Nelson, Travers ; Canterbury, Haast; Otago and Port William, 
Lyall, Hector and Buchanan. Campbell’s Island : barren, J. H. H. (Tasmania, Fuegia.) 
49. H. inflatum. Hook. f. and Wils. Fl. N. Z. iii. 111. t. 90./. 5. 
Stems large, stout, tumid, erect, 2-8 in. high and 3- in. diameter, very 
sparingly branched. Leaves bright, shining, yellow, crowded, large and 
inflated, closely imbricate, suberect, oblong, apiculate or acuminate, quite 
entire, very concave, much undulated; apex recurved; nerve 0. 
Northern Island: Mauawaki, Colenso. Middle Island: Nelson, Travers; Murray 
Bay, Jolliffe (barren). A very remarkable moss, of which the genus cannot be determined 
till the fruit is discovered. 
50. H. vagum, Hornschich. Stems ascending, stout, much vaguely 
branched. Leaves broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, almost nerveless; peri- 
chaetial long, sheathing, more or less reflexed. Fruitstalk elongate, erect, 
smooth, flexuous. Capsule oblong, nearly horizontal, purple; operculum 
conical, subulate, straight. 
Northern Island, Ken' ( in Herb. Mitten). I have seen no New Zealand specimens. 
(Australia.) 
51. H. divulsum, Hook. /. and Wils. Fl. N. Z. ii. 111. t. 90. /. 4. 
Stems very long (2-5 in.), Aliform, slender, cylindrical, vaguely sparingly 
branched ; branches rigid, suberect, incurved or straight. Leaves grey-green, 
hardly glossy, spreading, loosely imbricate, rounded-obovate, obtuse or sub- 
acute, minutely serrulate ; nerve reaching halfway ; cells punctiform ; perichse- 
tial squarrose. Fruitstalk in. long. Capsule cvlindric-ovoid, cernuous; 
operculum conical, acuminate. Inflorescence dioecious.- — Fl. Tasman, ii. 211. 
Northern Island : Auckland, Kniglit. Middle Island: Nelson, Travers; Canter- 
bury, Haast; Port Cooper and Banks’s Peninsula, Jolliffe , Lyall; Otago, Hector and 
Buchanan. Similar to H. clandeslinum, but with nerved less-obtuse leaves and punctiform 
cells. (Tasmania, Australia.) 
L. Distichophylla. 
52. H. extenuatum, Bridd. — H. crinitum, Hook. f. and Wils. Fl. 
N. Z. ii. 114. t. 91. f. 4. Stems procumbent, 2-5 in. long, much pinnately 
branched ; branches distant, \ in. long, flattened, acute. Leaves pale green, 
shining, distichous, erecto-patent, subcompressed, concave, ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, with a piliferous point as long as themselves, subserrulate ; nerve 0 ; 
