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It gives me especial pleasure to introduce to the Linnean 

 -Society the new genus, inasmuch as it is dedicated to my friend 

 Mr. Thomas Whitelegge. The moss grows on the Richmond 

 River in many places, though it requires a good deal of patience 

 to collect it in any quantity. I found it some two or three years 

 ago, and sent specimens to Dr. Brotherus ; but, inuch to my 

 disappointment, no mention was made of them in his returns. 



Last February I was looking through some of Mr. Whitelegge's 

 mosses, and was much interested to find this particular species. 

 He had sent it to Dr. Brotherus, but it had been omitted in his 

 returns. To my great satisfaction a recent letter reports this 

 moss as representing a new genus under the name Whitelegi/ea 

 australis. It is a very distinct moss, and the fruit is a very 

 beautiful object when examined with a low power of the micro- 

 scope, or even an ordinary lens. 



The following are the new species which Dr. Brotherus and 

 Dr. Warnstorf have found among my specimens : — 



Sphagnum Wattsii, Warnst. ; Dlcranella pellucida, Broth.; 

 ■Camjyytopusperauriculatus, Broth.; Fhilonotis niioopteris, Broth.; 

 Bryum Wattsii, Broth.; B. erythrocarjyulum, Broth.; B micro- 

 pachypoma, Broth. ; Pterygophyllum Wattsii, Broth.; Cryphea 

 papillarioides, Broth. ; Thuidium lilipicta^ium, Broth.; T. suhlili- 

 putanum, Broth.; T. atrovirens. Broth.; Stereophyllum Wattsii, 

 Broth.; Amblystegiuni austro-palustre, Broth.; Isopterygiurii lafi- 

 Joliwn, Broth.; /. JV^ovce-Valesire, Broth.; /. ammnum, Broth.; /. 

 arachnoideum. Broth.; Bhaphidostegiiim micropyxis, Broth.; and 

 a. Wattsii, Broth. 



Unfortunately, the name of one of these species, Bryum erythro- 

 ■carpulum, though eminently suitable to the moss, has been 

 appropriated by Dr. Carl Miiller, in his recent Symholcn ad 

 Bryologiam, Australice. I have reminded Dr. Brotherus of this, 

 but in the meantime give his naming as supplied to me. I am 

 sending specimens of the new species for exhibition, and I regret 

 that in some cases the material is poor. 



In addition to the above, I send also a good specimen of a new 

 species mentioned in ray last communication, shortly to be des- 



