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erecto-patenlibus, siccitate adpressis atque paululu m tortis, 

 oblongo-ovatis, acutiuseulis, marginatis, apice serrulatis, 

 nervo in mucronem elongatum excurrente ; capsula ex 

 apophysi angustiore ovato-cylindracea, incurva ; operculo 

 conico mamillato. — Swan River, Mr. James Drummond. 

 One inch high, pale yellowish-green, shining. Leaves 

 clustered at the tops of the stems ; when dry, their 

 crowded excurrent nerves resemble a brush. Setae 1 inch 

 high, slender, red, incurved above. Capsule cernuous, un- 

 equal or slightly incurved to the fruit-stalk. A double 

 annulus is present. Calyptra dimidiate. Differs from B. Bil- 

 lardieri, Schwaeg., by the greater size, the leaves more con- 

 gested above, the more excurrent nerve, and by the capsule 

 suddenly swelling out at its base above the narrow apo- 

 physis. 



5. B. inaquale; caule subcasspitoso, gracili, brevissimo, erecto, 

 subramoso ; foliis imbricatis, erectis, adpressis, ovatis, acu- 

 minatis, subserrulatis, basi margine reflexis, nervo percur- 

 rente ; capsula cylindraceo-pyriformi, subcernua ; operculo 

 conico, mamillato. — Swan River, Mr. James Drummond. 

 Two to three lines high, grouped, pale olive-green. Leaves, 



even, when moistened adpressed into a capitulum. Seta ex- 

 ceeding 1 inch in height, reddish, flexuose, curved at the top. 

 Capsule, from a narrow obconical apophysis, obovate. A 

 double annulus is present. Lid obtusely conical. As in 

 Bryum Funckii, Schwaeg., the fruit bears a great ratio to the 

 diminutive stems ; the present differs from that species by 

 the more acuminate leaves, which are more crowded, and 

 whose nerve is not excurrent into an apiculus. 



6, B. multicaule ; caulibus caespitosis, nitidis, pallide 

 virescentibus, elongatis, basi ramosis, sursum incrassatis j 

 foliis imbricatis, erectis, apice patentibus, cordatis, acurai- 

 natis, serrulatis, basi margine recurvis, nervo percurrente ; 

 capsula cylindraceo-pyriformi, subnutantc; operculo conico. 

 — Swan River, Mr. James Drummond. 



Shoots simple, thickened above by the more crowded 

 leaves. Perichaetium very short, its leaves upright, crowded, 



