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acute observer as Mr. Colenso should have overlooked that the stamens are opposite 
to the sepals in both these plants, and not alternate, as in the case in all true Colobanthi. 
Both the above species of Sagina are now copiously naturalized throughout the 
Dominion. 
* Flowers tetramerous. 
Soft, bright-green, Leaves j1,-}im., linear, obtuse, almost fleshy. 
Sepals ovate-lanceo'ate, obtuse .. .. LL, OC, muscoides. 
Branched, leafy. Leaves flaccid, }-# in., acute or mucronate, not , 
acicular, Sepals ovate, obtuse .. 2. C. quitensis. 
Leaves spreading, margins thickened. Sepals linear-subulate. 
Flowers lateral, axillary .. ni , = .. 3. OC, monticola. 
** Flowers pentamerous. 
Leaves loosely imbricate, spreading or recurved, chaffy, acute or 
shortly acicular. Sepals ovate, acute, about equal to the 
capsule oe y .. 4. C. canaliculatus. 
Leaves grassy: often flaccid, acicular. Sepals ovate, acute or 
acuminate, but slightly exceeding the capsule . . 5. O. erassifolius. 
Leaves rigid, spreading, acicular, much longer than the capsule . . 6. C. Muelleri. 
Leaves densely imbreated: small, 4-4 in., ‘ebbuse at the tip, with 
a short acicular point. Sepals about equal to the capsule 7. C. brevisepalus. 
Leaves densely imbricate, 4-4in., strict, narrowed into short 
acicular points. Sepals about equal to the apes 8. CO, Hookert. 
Leaves short, strict, erect ; or broad, tke ia narrowed into 
long acicular points 9. C. strictus. 
Leaves densely imbricate, }-3 in., curved, narrowed into very long 
acicular points. Sepals much longer than the capsule .. 10. C. acicularis. 
Leaves barely imbricate, laxly spreading, membranous, 4-3 in. 
long. Pedunceles axillary. Sepals linear-subulate, much longer 
than the capsule 7, a. ate a .. Ll, GC. Buchanani. 
1. €. museoides Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 14.—A soft almost flaccid 
perfectly glabrous densely tufted bright-green plant, forming large irregular 
patches. Stems numerous, branched, densely matted and compacted. 
Lec closely imbricated, connate at the base, spreading or ascending, 
zo-z in. long, linear from a broad base, obtuse at the tip. Flowers minute, 
on short peduncles which are sunk amongst the uppermost leaves or shortly 
exserted in fruit. Sepals 4, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, concave, obscurely 
keeled at the back. Capsule shorter than the sepals—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
(1864) 25; TL. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 62; Homb. and Jacq. Voy. au Pole 
Sud Bot. (1852) t. 17; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 66. 
THE SNARES, AUCKLAND, CAMPBELL, ANTIPODES, AND MAcQuARIE ISLANDS: 
Common on rocks near the sea. 
Forms rounded patches sometimes 18in. across, although usually much smaller, 
the inner part composed of the decaying foliage and stems of old plants, the outside 
thickly covered with the compacted stems and branches, clothed with bright-green 
leaves. . 
GC. mete Otto. TA-AT, Sb Laat) s- 
2. C. quitensis Bartl. in Presi Relig. Haenk. 11 (1830-36) 13, t. 49, f. 2.— 
A small densely tufted much-branched plant 1-2 in. high, forming rather soft 
rounded patches. Leaves variable in size, lower sometimes over $ in. long, 
upper often very small, }-+ in,, narrow-linear or linear-subulate, acute or 
mucronate but not acicular at the tip, connate at the base, flat or concave 
above, convex beneath; texture soft. Peduncles short, stout, terminal. 
Flowers 4-4 in. long. meno 4, ovate, broad at the base, obtuse at the 
tip, rather thick. Capsule 4 shorter than the sepals. — Hook. f. Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 24; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 60; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
#1, (1906) 66. 
