6. T. laadfolium, Hook,f, and Wils, Fl. N. Z. ii. 72. Stems very short,
J in. long, simple. Leaves yellowish, distant, spreading, very long, setaceous-
subulate, with an ovate sheathing base, flexuous, channelled, quite entire ;
nerve solid. Fruitstalk ^-1 in. long, slender, red. Capsule suberect, oblong,
rather oblique, gibbous, narrowed towards the mouth ; annulus distinct ;
operculum conical and subulate. Inflorescence monoecious. — Dicranum Jlexi"
folium. Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 144.
Northern Island: Bay of Islands, clay-hills, /. 2). H,^ Colenso; Aucldand, Bolton,
(Tasmania, S. Africa, and' S. America.)

7. T. elongatnm, J7ooAr. /. and Wils. in Fl, Tasman. ii. 176. t, 173,
/. 1. Stem i-1 in. long, simple, rigid. Leaves lax, spreading, subsecund,
rather flexuous and rigid, lower portion broad, elliptic-oblong, membranous ;
margin pellucid, suddenly contracted to a long subulate keeled point three
times as long; margin roughish or subserrate. Fruitstalk 1 in. long, reddish.
Capsule pale brown, • cylindric, elongate; annulus large ;• operculum conic-
subulate, half as long as the capsule. Inflorescence monoecious.
livw Zealand (Fl. Tasman.). (Tasmania.)

. 8. T. setosnm, Hook.f, and Wils. Fl. N, Z. ii. 73. t. 84./. 6. Stems
short, \-\ in. high-, simple; Leaves pale yellow-green, lower ones reddish,
strict, erect, crowded, setaceb-subulate from an ovate-lanceolate sheathing
base, entire, sharply keeled to the apex ; nerve broad, continuous. Fruit-
stalk very slender, ^-1 in. high, pale. iCapsule oblong, oblique, mouth con-
tracted ; annulus distinct ; operculum conical with a slender beak, half as long
as the capsule. Inflorescence monoecious. — Leptotrichum affine, C. Mueller.
