384 THK SPHAGNA OF AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA, 



two changes in nomenclature. Of the rest, »S'. australe and 

 S. inacroccphalum become merged in S. antarcticum, as varie- 

 ties, and .v. Whiteleyyei in .S'. subbicolor. 



Special interest, from the zoogeographic point of view, at- 

 taches to the fact that, out of a total of ten subsections, into 

 which the Sphagna of the world are divided, four only are 

 represented in Australasia (including New Zealand). Dr. 

 Warnstorf, in his work, and also in a letter I have received 

 from him, remarks ujion the entire absence of the large sub- 

 section, the A (■uflfolia. 



The following classified list is now submitted, on the basis 

 of Dr. Warnstorf 's work. Details of localities, etc., are 

 mainly additional to those given in Census Muse. Austr., 

 Part.i., pp. 8-12. 



SPHAGNACE^. 



Sphagnum, Ehrh. 



i. Sect., Lithophloea. 

 Subsect. Riytda. 



S. ANTARCTICUM Mitt. ; S. uustralc Mitt. ; iS". conipactnm 

 var. ovatiun H.f.W. ; S. confertum Arch, et Mitt.; S. cris- 

 tatuin Hpe. 

 Tas., Mt. Wellington, etc. : Archer, Oldfield, Weymouth, 



et al. 



Var. AUSTRALE (Mitt.) Warnst., Sphag. Univ. ; S. orthn- 



ciaduin Eurch. ; S. (J(N/ipbe//ian/ii/n CM. ; S. falcira- 



meuiH CM. ; S. niacro-ri(/i<hiiu CM. ; S. erosiim Warnst. 

 N.S.W., Govett's Leap, Blackheath, Katoomba Falls, etc. : 



Watts, April, 1903.— Tas., Mt. Wellington, etc. (See 



Census, sub S. australe). 



Var. FLUCTUANS Warnst., Hedw.1890. 

 Tas., Huon Road.: Weymouth (n. 2131-2). 



Var. MACROCEPHALUM Warnst.,as sp., Hedw.1893. 

 Tas., Huon Rd. : Weymouth(n.2130). 



