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Additional Notes

Bazzania Mittenii (Steph.) to which Stephani (1892) reduced Colenso's species B. concinna, B. imbricatistipula, B. quadrata, and B. epibrya, is not described in his Species Hepaticarum. It is probably B. Hochstetteri.

B. epibrya (Col.) I am unable to find in the Trans. N.Z. Institute.

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Mastigobryum smaragdinum Col., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 21, 67, 1888, listed by Stephani (1892) as a poor form of some Lophocolea or Chiloscyphus is almost certainly Acromastigum Colensoanum.

Mastigobryum descrescens L. et L., is listed in the Handbook, with a note by Hooker that he has seen no New Zealand specimens, and that the description was taken from the Synopsis Hepáticarum. Lindenberg and Gottsche (1851) mention this species as collected in the Auckland Islands by Hombron. The type of this species was from Mauritius. Through the kindness of the authorities of the Laboratoire de Cryptogamie in Paris, I have been able to examine this Auckland Island plant. Nees No. 363, collected by Hombron, and identified by Moutagne

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Text-Fig 1.—1—B. Hochstetteri, 2—B. adnera forma submutica. 3—B. Tayloriana. 4—B. convexa. 5—B. monilinervis. 6—B. involuta. 7—B. adnexa. 8—B. Novae-Zelandiae.

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as Herpetium decrescens. It seems to be a form of B. adnexa, near enough I think to our var. submutica, but more specimens of B. decrescens would be necessary before one could definitely refer var. submutica to that species.

Other specimens received from Paris are 3 packets of B. involuta (Mont.) and a specimen labelled Herpetium adnexum from Nova Hollandia, all from Herbarium Montague.

Mastigobryum tenacifolium also described in the Handbook, was from the Auckland Islands. It is now placed in Mitten's genus Herpocladium.

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