498 ALGE OF TASMANIA. 
Cinclidium stygium. It appears to be the same Moss as n. 
253 of Drummond’s Musci Americani, which Bruch and 
Schimper propose to call Mnium pseudo-punctatum (See 
Lond. Journ. of Bot. Dec. 1843); but our Moss is essen- 
tially a Bryum in its mode of producing innovations imme- 
diately below the perichetium. It is easily known from 
Mnium punctatum by its celluloso-margined leaves, and small 
roundish capsule; it differs also in its inflorescence. Speci- 
mens have been sent to Mr. Sowerby for figuring in Engl. 
Botany Suppl.—W. Wilson. 
New British Phenogamous Plant. 
It gives us pleasure to be able to announce, that a small 
party of Botanists, consisting of Mr. Jas. Backhouse and Son, — 
Mr. John Tatham, Jun., Mr. George Gibson, and Mr. Sy- — 
vanus Thompson, have detected in Teesdale the Spergula — — 
stricta, Sw. (Arenaria uliginosa, Schleich. and DeCand. 5 . 
Alsinantha stricta, Fenzl. and Reichenbach). We shall notice 
this more particularly in a future number. | 
enu PEDE ee 
ALax of Tasmania, by W. H. Harvey, M.D. M.R.LA. 
&c. 
It is my intention to publish in the Journal of Botany, 
under the above title, descriptions of all Marine zd 
which may be communicated from Tasmania, either to Sit — 
W. J. Hooker or to myself. At present, besides the pe 
about to be noticed, I have under examination another ; 
package communicated by Mr. Gunn to Sir W. J. Hooker in 
1840, the description of which, long since commenced, ha 
been unavoidably delayed, but which will shortly appear ; = 
one from Dr. Jennirett, which will form the subject oam 
ceeding paper. These several parcels are so interesting, 20° 
contain so great a number of new species, as to hold out t™ 
promise that when the shores of Van Diemen’s Land arè 
more fully explored, they will yield a Marine Flora richer in 
