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of an olive or brownish-green colour, more deeply 2-toothed at the apex, and 
stipules 4-spinose. Perianth shortly campanulate ; mouth shortly toothed. 
Northern and Middle Islands : Auckland, Sinclair, etc.. Port Preservation, Lyall. — 
Odour pungent, peppery. 
13. C. physanthus, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 141. t. 98./. 7- Stem 1 in. 
long, creeping. Leaves lurid or dirty green, subopposite, imbricate, ovate, 
2-dentate; sinus obtuse; teeth diverging; involucral 4-toothed. Stipules 
spinous, 4-toothed, narrowly connate with the leaves below them. Perianth 
campanulate, rather plaited above; mouth laciniate, indexed. — Syn. Hep. 700. 
Northern Island: Bay of Islands, J. D. II. ; Auckland, Sinclair. 
§ II. Leaves alternate. Stipules united by one decurrent margin to a leaf below them. 
14. C. laxus, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 142. t. 99./. 1. Stem 2 in. long, 
brittle. Leaves bright green, subpellucid, alternate, rather remote, ovate- 
oblong, unequally 3-4-toothed ; cells large, lax. Stipules small, 2-partite ; 
segments 1-toothed. 
Northern Island : Auckland, Sinclair. Middle Island, Lyall. (Tasmania.) 
15. C. tridentatus, Mitten in FI. Tasman, ii. 228. t. 179./. 1. — C. 
combinatus, FI. N. Z. ii. 141. Stems procumbent, slender, 1 in. long. 
Leaves brownish-green, convex, rigid, shortly oblong or subquadrate, truncate, 
2- or 3-toothed at the apex ; margins recurved ; stipules small, 4-toothed, 
connate on one side with a leaf below. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, Cunningham-, Cape Turnagain, Colenso ; Welling- 
ton, Stephenson. (Tasmania.) 
§ III. Leaves opposite or alternate. Stipules free. 
16. C. piperitus, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 141. t. 98./. 8. Stem \ in. 
long, creeping. Leaves green or greenish-brown, subopposite, oblong or 
ovate-oblong, truncate, 2-toothed ; sinus shallow. Stipules small, 2-dentate ; 
teeth lanceolate, diverging. 
New Zealand, Herb. Mitten. — A little-known and imperfectly-characterized species. 
Odour of black pepper. 
17. C. chlorophyllus. Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 139. t. 98./. 2. Stem 
\ in., creeping. Leaves alternate, pale green or brownish, imbricate, ovate, 
2-cuspidate ; dorsal margin entire ; ventral 1-2-toothed near the apex ; 
involucral similar, denticulate. Stipules free, ovate, 2-dentate, toothed on the 
sides. Perianth campanulate ; mouth open, lobed, and spinous-laciniate. — 
Lophocolea, Hook. f. andTayl. inLond. Journ.Bot. 1844,562 ; Syn. Hep. 698. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, J. D. H. ; Auckland, Sinclair. 
18. C. echinellus, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 141. Stems small, procum- 
bent. Leaves subimbricate, horizontal, subrotund, spinulose-toothed. Sti- 
pules 2-partite; segments lanceolate-subulate, toothed. — Lophocolea, Syn. 
Hep. 703. 
Middle Island : Dusky Bay, said to have been picked out of specimens of Plagiochila 
ramosissima from Dusky Bay, sent by Dr. Taylor to the authors of the species (Lindeuberg 
and Gottsche), but this is more than doubtful, as Dr. Taylor had no Dusky Bay mosses. 
