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IV. MUSCI. 
\Hookeria. 
5. H. pulchella, Hook.f. andWils.Fl.Antarct. 142. t. 62./.1;— FI. N. Z. 
ii. 1 23. Stems prostrate, \ in. long, soft, flattened, sparingly branched. Leaves 
white, pellucid, flaccid, crowded, distichous, broadly obovate, obtuse or api- 
culate, with a narrow, thickened, quite entire margin ; nerve reaching half- 
way ; cells small, rounded ; perichsetial erect, smaller, ovate, obtuse ; tips re- 
flexed. Fruitstalk % in. high, rough and thickened at the top. Capsule 
suberect or cernuous, small, oblong, with a narrow apophysis ; operculum 
shorter than the capsule ; beak straight. Calyptra fimbriate. Inflorescence 
dioecious. 
Northern Island : Tararua, Colenso. Middle Island : common, Bligh’s Sound, Lyall ; 
Canterbury, Travers ; on the ground, Otago, Hector and Buchanan. Lord Auckland’s 
group : on twigs of trees, J. D. H. (Tasmania.) 
6. H. sinuosa, Hook.f. and Wils.Fl. Tasm. ii. 219. t. 177./. 3. Stems 
•§ in. long, compressed, sparingly branched. Leaves yellowish, crowded, 
firm, subdistichous, crisped and undulate when dry, obovate, obtuse ; margin 
broadly thickened, quite entire ; nerve reaching halfway; cells small; peri- 
chaetial small, obtuse. Fruitstalk 1 in. high, glossy, smooth, red. Capsule 
imperfect. Calyptra fimbriate. Inflorescence dioecious. 
Northern Island : probably from near Auckland, Sinclair. (Tasmania.) 
7. H. amblyophylla, Hook.f. and TFils. Fl.N.Z. ii. 123. t. 93./. 3. 
Stems large, stout, prostrate, 2-3 in. long, sparingly branched, compressed. 
Leaves yellow-green, lurid when old, crowded, distichous, erecto-patent, 
appressed when dry, obovate, rounded at the apex ; margin thickened, quite 
entire, and often recurved at the apex ; nerve reaching halfway ; cells mi- 
nute ; perichsetial obtuse. Fruitstalk 1 in. high, slender, smooth. Capsule 
small, narrow, horizontal or cernuous. Calyptra fimbriate at the base. In- 
florescence dioecious. 
Northern Island ; Port Nicholson, Sinclair; Auckland, Knight. Middle Island: 
bogs, Mataura river, Hector and Buchanan. (Tasmania.) 
8. H. adnata, Hook.f. and TFils. FI. N. Z. ii. 123. t. 93./. 4. Stems 
short, j in. long, reddish, sparingly branched; branches broad, compressed. 
Leaves pale yellow, delicately membranous, distichous, undulate when dry, 
oblong or subspathulate, acute ; margin very narrowly thickened, quite en- 
tire ; nerve reaching halfway ; cells minute ; perichsetial ovate, acute. Fruit- 
stalk very slender, } in. long, smooth, red. Capsule very small, cernuous, 
ovoid ; operculum as long as the capsule ; beak slender. Calyptra fimbriate 
at the base. Inflorescence monoecious. 
Northern Island : common on leaves of trees and ferns, especially on Trichomanes 
elongatum, Cunningham, etc. 
9. H. flexuosa, Mitten. A small species, intermediate between H. 
adnata and crispula. Leaves spreading, obovate-spatlndate obovate-ob- 
long or broadly oblong, shortly apiculate ; margin thin, flexuous, cartilagi- 
nous ; nerve vanishing beyond the middle ; cells very minute, rounded ; pe- 
richsetial small, ovate, acute. Fruitstalk curved and subscabrid at the apex. 
Capsule ovoid, horizontal ; operculum subulate. — Mitten, mss. 
Middle Island : Banks’s Peninsula, Herb. Knight. — I have seen no specimens of this 
