490 
IV. MXJSCI. 
[Cyalhophorum. 
1. C. pennatum, Bridal; — FI. N. Z. ii. 120. Stems erect, 2 in. to 
1 ft. long, simple, rarely 2-fid, naked below, very flat, bright green and trans- 
lucent. Leaves distichous ; lateral i- £ in. long, ovate-oblong, oblique, 
serrate ; nerve half as long, often forked ; dorsal leaves rounded, apiculate ; 
perichsetial small, slender. Fruitstalk very short, stout, curved ; sheath 
large, conspicuous. Capsules large, ovoid, pale brown ; spores small ; oper- 
culum conical, acuminate, half as long as the capsule. Calyptra very small, 
cellular, brown, covering the upper half of the operculum. Antheridia mixed 
with club-shaped paraphyses. — Hookeria pennata. Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 163. 
Var. (3. minus. Leaves more distant, acute, FI. Antarct. i. 143. t. 62. f. 3. 
Var. y. apiculatum. Stems short ; leaves shorter, apiculate, more sharply serrate. 
Abundant throughout the islands from the Bay of Islands to Lord Auckland’s Island. 
Var. fi. Lord Auckland’s Island, J. D. H. ; Totara, Colenso. Var. y. Middle Island, Lijall. 
(Tasmania and S.E. Australia.) 
69. CALOMNION, Hook. f. and Mils. 
A minute, densely tufted, dioecious, bright green, shining moss, growing 
on trunks of trees. Stems simple, flattened, lanceolate, erect from a creeping 
rhizome. Leaves 3-farious, of 2 forms ; lateral distichous, lanceolate ; dorsal 
appressed, broader, both quite entire, with stout nerves ; cells minute, 
rounded. Fruitstalk terminal, stout, erect. Capsule erect, cylindric-oblong, 
annulate ; mouth contracted ; teeth 0. Operculum with a long beak. 
Calyptra cucullate. 
A very curious moss, of doubtful affinity. 
1. C. lsetum. Hook. f. and Wils. FI. N.Z. ii. 97. t. 87./. 5. Stems 
^ in. high, persistent, the old ones bristle-like. Lateral leaves vertical, but 
not as to insertion, oblong-lanceolate, acute ; nerve reaching the tip ; dorsal 
leaves appressed, nearly orbicular, apiculate ; perichsetial erect, linear, rather 
obtuse. Fruitstalk about as long as the stem ; operculum nearly as long as 
the capsule. Male flowers gemmiform, with closely imbricate scales ; para- 
physes few or 0. — Eudadon complanatum, Hook. f. and Wils. in Lond. Journ. 
Bot. iii. 538. 
Northern and Middle Islands : Bay of Islands, Sinclair ; on dead trees and tree-fern 
trunks, J. D. H. ; Waikehi, Sinclair ; Auckland, Knight ; N.E. valley, Otago, Hector 
and Buchanan. 
70. RACOPILUM, Palisot. 
Rigid dark green mosses. Stems creeping, on wood, rock, and the 
ground, more or less pitmately branched, often tomentose with radicles. 
Leaves more or less distichous, or imbricate all round, usually of two forms ; 
lateral spreading, subdistichous, subpapillose ; dorsal smaller ; nerve ex- 
current, piliferous ; cells minute, rounded. Fruitstalk lateral, stout or 
slender, erect, usually curved at the top. Capsule unequal, elongate, curved, 
drooping, erect, or pendulous, grooved, annulate ; peristome of Hypnum. 
Operculum beaked. Calyptra mitriform, more or less hairy below, rarely gla- 
brous, sometimes dimidiate, base inflexed, fringed. 
A rather large tropical and subtropical genus. 
