Syml)olac ad Bryolofriam Australiae IT. cf] 



dense aggregatum exinittcns; folia caulina indistincte torquescentia 



madore patula, e basi longiuscula anguste ovato- acuminata, nervo 



crassiiisculo virente in aristam longam strictam acutatam pungcntem 



producto exarata, margine integerrimo revoluta angustissime marginata, 



e celliilis majusculis firmiusculis utriculo primordiali fiexuoso repletis 



basi majoribus laxis reticulata; perichaetialia magis lanceolata longius 



pungcntia; theca in pedunculo elongate suprapollicari rubente strictius- 



culo parum flexuoso majuscula nutans, e collo brevi turgide oblonga 



pachyderma ochracea orificium versus plerumque rubcns vel fuscata, 



operculo brevi cupulato-conico, annulo lato ; peristomium breve 



profundius infra orificium oriundum: dentes extcrni lutescentes lato- 



trabeculati, interni teneri albesccntes ad cxternos adhaerentes angusti 



minute hiantes, ciliis tenerrimis singulis vel binis parum appendi- 



culatis; sporae virides majusculae. 



H a b i t a t i o. Australia, Victoria, Moyston, Oct. 1883 : D. S u 1 1 i v a n 

 1883 misit; prope Dimboola, Oct. ]893: F. Reader mis. 1894. 



Surculo brevissimogemmiformi, foliis longe aristiformi-pungentibus, 

 pedunculo longissimo, capsula majusculo et peristomio infra orificium 

 oriundo primo visu distinctissima species. 



Var. humilisetum; folia longissime tenuiter aristato-pungentia, 

 theca multo brevius pedunculata brcviter tumido- oblonga. Br. 

 humilisetum C. Mull. Hb. 



Habitatio. In iisdem locis uttypus: D.Sullivan, Oct, 1883. 



133. Bryum (Eubrya pallentia) oophyllum n. sp.; dioicum? 

 cespituli humiles semiuncialcs nigriti laxi; caulis gracilis simplex vel 

 innovando ramulum gracillimum brevem ex apice fertili exmittens; 

 folia caulina inferiora minuta laxiuscule conferta madore inferne 

 remotiuscula apicem versus densius imbricata, e basi vix angustiore 

 oblongo-ovoidea plus minusve ligulate obtusata patellaeformi-concava, 

 margine erecto integerrima, nervo angustissimo purpurco flexuoso ad 

 summitatem dissolute exarata, e cellulis longis angustiusculis laxius- 

 culis pellucidis inanibus flaccidis teneris reticulata, cellulis angustissimis 

 pallidissimis anguste marginata; folia juniora vel superiora multo minora 

 e cellulis magis ellipticis densioribus viridibus areolata valdc obtusata; 

 perichaetialia omnium majora; theca in pedunculo breviusculo flexuoso 

 rubro nutans minuta oblonga, operculo minuto depresso-cupulato 

 obtusiusculo, annulo lato; peristomium breve: dentes externi lutes- 

 centes, interni ignoti. 



Habitatio. Nova Seelandia, insula septcntrionalis prope Auck- 

 land in fluminlbus: T. F. Cheesemann Oct. 1882. Hb. Levicr 1893. 



Species pusilla tcnella elegantula, foliis patellacformi-ovoideis 

 rotundate obtusatis angustissime nervosis jam facillime cognosccnda. 



134. Bryum (Eubrya alpina) pungentifolium n. sp.; dioi- 

 cum; cespites pulvinati dcnsi lutescentes radiculosi; caulis fertilis c 



ikdwi^ia Bd. XXXVll. iSnS. 



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