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innovando crcsccns paucifolius; folia caulina minuta scd robiista 

 dense imbricata madore apice reflcxa, e basi brevi latiuscula erecta 

 vaginacca appressa In laminam brevcm lanceolato - acuminatam 

 carinatam intcgcrnmam reflexam carnosam producta, ncrvo crasso 

 brcvitcr exccdente mucronata vel cuspidatula, e cellulis valde ob- 

 scuris viridibus minutis basi majoribiis tenerioribus laxiusculis palli- 

 dioribjs areolata; perichaetialia similia majora erecta; theca in pedi- 

 cello perbrevi crassiusculo flavo erecta anguste oblonga breviter 

 obtusiuscule acuminata pulchre nitido-aurea vel fusca levis exserta. 



Habitatio. Australia, Victoria, Dimboola, 12. Oct. 1893: 

 Fr. Reader, misit 1894. 



Species ob capsulam tetrapteraceo-oblongam at nitido-auream 

 pulchella propria. Ph. Sullivani m. aliquantulum simile capsula 

 vesiculosa foliisque siccitate valde crispulis jam recedit. 



83. Beckett ia n. gen. in litt. ad T. W. N. Beckett 1892. 

 Phascaceae. Habitus Hruchiae; folia pottiacea marginata e cellulis 

 pottiaceis granulosis reticulata aristato- nervosa apice acute dcntata; 

 capsula phascacea minuta, calyptra majuscula pyramidali-campanulata 

 basin versus angustata fere calymperacea. 



Beclcettia bruchioides n. sp.; dioica; perpusilla simplex 

 paucifolia; folia crecto-patula, e basi laxe reticulata complicata in 

 laminam oblongo-acuminatam producta, margine erecto apicem versus 

 acute undulate minute dcnticulata anguste flavido- marginata, nervo 

 angusto excedcnte plus minusve longiuscule cuspidata, e cellulis 

 parenchymatis densiusculis punctato- granulosis griseis reticulata, 

 profunde carinato-concava complicata; perichaetialia similia majora; 

 theca in pedicello perbrevi crassiusculo erecta oblongo- acuminata 

 levis angustiuscula; calyptra capsulam superans glabra nitidula 

 angusta veluti inflata levis nee plicata. 



Habitatio. Nova Seelandia, insula australis, Lyttelton Hills 

 prope Christchurch, in solo argillaceo, Octobri 1887: T. W. Nay lor 

 Beckett legit inter. Pottiam marginatam, misit 1892. 



Phascacearum veluti Pyramidula Funariacearum genus distinc- 

 tissimum, primo visu cum Bruchia facile commutandum, unde nomen. 



84. Ephemerum grosso-ciliatum n. sp.; perpusillum acaule 

 paucifolium; folia angusta e basi usque ad apicem in cilia plus 

 minusve lobatula et simplicia breviora profunde fastigiatim fissa, 

 laxe nervosa, e cellulis laxis flavidis eleganter reticulata, in acumen 

 profusum saepius recurvum brevissime dentatum protracta; theca 

 minuta globosa brevissime acuminata rubens. 



Habitatio. Australia, Victoria, prope Melbourne in truncis 

 arborum cum Fissidente pungente, 5. Julio 1884: Fr. Reader 

 misit ex Dimboola 1896. 



