26 SOUTH AMERICAN BOTANY. 
raginaceæ, where, in most instances, the gynobasic point of union 
of the carpels is generally on the level with the gynophorus itself, 
several instances occur, (in Asperugo, for instance,) where the 
apical point of the gynobase is mid-way, or near the summit of the 
axile line of juncture of the carpels, at which point they are in - 
fact pendulous. In other cases again, this point is at the very 
summit of the carpels, as in Mattia, Pectocarya, and others of 
the tribe Cynoglossee, where the ovaries, at first pendulous, at 
length, after development, exhibit their carpels in an absolutely 
centrifugal position upon the summit of the gynobasic point of 
their attachment. 
(To be continued.) p 5 ? 
Characters of three new Australian Mosses. By W. Witson, Esq. 
(Tas. I.) 
1. Phascum Drummondii; caule brevissimo, foliis confertis subro- 
tundis concavis nervo subcontinuo, seta longiuscula, capsula 
elliptico-oblonga rostellata. (Tas. I. A.) 
Has. Swan River, Mr. James Drummond. 
In habit very like Anacalypta latifolia (Bryol. Eur.), but some- 
what smaller, and the operculum quite indehiscent. Leaves col- 
lected into a little oval bulb, roundish, somewhat obovate, rather 
_ obtuse, very concave, the nerve ceasing just below the apex. Seta 
twice as long as the Capsule, which is of thin texture and very 
fragile. Calyptra dimidiate, covering half the capsule. Inflorescence 
monoicous, anthers pedicellate, mixed with subclavate paraphyses. 
Tas. 1. A. Fig. 1, Plants; nat. size. f. 2, 3, single plants ; mag- 
nifed. f. 4-7, leaves. f. 8, apex of leaf. f. 9, anthers and 
paraphyses :—all more or less magnified. 
9. Splachnum Gunnii ; caule rigidiuseulo crasso, foliis squarrosis 0 
carnosis obovatis acutiusculis apice dentatis evanidinerviis, cap- - 
sula conica, apophysi valde dilatata peristomii dentibus erecto- ; 
incurvis. (Tas. L B.) 
TE Has. Tasmania; on dead Tree-Fern, Acheron Bn 1845. n. : dm 
Gunn, Esq. n. 1625. 
