UMIVERSITATIS LATVIENSIS - DSpace

ceolate, obtuse. Vaginula naked or with a few paraphyses; och-
rea distinct. Seta yellowish, short when compared
with the
capsule. Capsule subcylindric, distincly ribbed, con-
tracted below the mouth, ca. 2 mm long;
stomata in the neck.
Calyptra thickly papillose. Peristome double, inserted
below the mouth; teeth 8, narrowly acuminated, finely
papillose, with transverse bars at the inner side, afterwards
splitting; processes 8, lineal-lanceolate, hyaline, smooth. Spores
Fig. —
papillose, 24—29 ja. Fig. 4.
4. U. breviseta. a- c Mungatui,
c. —
10
Bell.; d. —
Distribution: New Zealand.
Specimens examined.
New Zealand: North Island, Hawkes Bay, on bark of small trees
near Lake Waikaremoana, ca 2300', 28. XII 1932 (Sainsbury); Mungatui, I 1888
(Bell) in Herb. Broth.; Mauriceville, on willow, 111 1910 (Gray) Herb. Dixon.
U. breviseta very much resembles the broad-leaved U. lutea
from the South Island of N. Z. differing from it in the broad band
of hyaline cells at the margins of the leaf base, in the margins al-
most plane and in the smaller cells. The seta is rather short when
Hawkes
Bay, Sainsbury.
—
peristome (inner surface) inserted below the mouth X 125; d X 25.