Ilookeria.] 
IV. MUSCI. 
493 
Stems 2-4 in. long. Leaves obovate 14. IT. cristata. 
Stems 1 in. high. Leaves orbicular-oblong 15. IT. flexicollis. 
§ I. Sauloma. 
1. H. tenella, HooJc. f. and Wils. FI. N. Z. ii. 122. t. 92./. 8. Stems 
short, stout, sparingly branched, in. high. Leaves almost white, glossy, 
crowded, imbricate, secund, plicate, narrow ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acute ; 
margin quite entire, not thickened, recurved ; nerve 0 or very faint ; cells 
lax; perichsetial small, ovate-lanceolate, erect. Fruitstalk £ in. high, smooth. 
Capsule erect or subcernuous, small, ovoid, contracted below the mouth when 
dry ; operculum short, conical, hardly beaked. Calyptra naked, even at the 
base. Inflorescence dioecious. 
Northern and Middle Islands on dead wood, Colenso ; Banks’s Peninsula, Lyall. 
(Tasmania.) 
§ II. Mniadelphus. 
2. H. apiculata, Ilook.f. and Wils. FI. Antarct. 421, 155./. 6 ; — FI. 
N. Z. ii. 122. _ Stems tufted, 1 in. high, stout, erect, sparingly branched, 
below covered with black radicles ; branches compressed, fertile, procum- 
bent. Leaves loosely imbricate, undulate when dry, lateral spreading ; dorsal 
appressed, ovate-orbicular, apiculate ; margin thickened, subserrate at the 
apex ; nerve 0 ; cells large, hexagonal ; perichsetial erect, ovate-lanceolate, 
acute. Fruitstalk flexuous, rough. Capsule horizontal or cernuous, ovoid, 
subapophysate ; operculum shorter than the capsule, with a straight beak. 
Calyptra small, hairy, white, fimbriate at the base. Inflorescence dioecious. 
Northern Island : creeping amongst Racopilum (barren), Colenso. Mitten observes 
that this is truly an Eriopus, though wanting the technical character of the hairs on the fruit- 
stalk. (Tasmania, Fucgia.) 
3. H. rotundifolia, Tloolc. f. and Wils. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 1844, 
p. 551 ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 122. t. 93./. 1. Small; stems prostrate, £in. long, 
sparingly branched ; branches compressed, slender. Leaves dark green, lax, 
spreading, crisped when dry, orbicular-ovate, apiculate ; margin thickened, 
toothed ; nerve reaching halfway ; cells large, lax ; perichsetial toothed. 
Fruitstalk slender, i in. long, smooth. Capsule horizontal, narrotv-oblong, 
pale; operculum with a slender straight beak, nearly as long as the capsule. 
Calyptra fimbriate at the base. Inflorescence dioecious. 
Northern and Middle Islands : not uncommon on fallen trees, etc., from the Bay of 
Islands, J. 1>. H., to Milford Sound, Tyall. 
4. H. crispula, Ilook.f. and Wils. FI. N. Z. ii. 122. t. 93./. 2. Stems 
short, green, rather broad, prostrate, | in. long, very sparingly branched ; 
branches flattened. Leaves bright green, opaque, not glossy, spreading, disti- 
chous, crisped when dry, obovate-oblong or broadly oblong, apiculate ; margin 
thickened, quite entire ; nerve reaching halfway ; cells very minute ; perichsetial 
ovate, acuminate. Fruitstalk slender, smooth. Capsule, etc., as in H. rotundi- 
folia. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, on clay banks, J. D. H. Lord Auckland’s 
group, Hombron (fide Ufon/apne). (Tasmania.) 
