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Comparable with F. intcuerrivins Mitt., but readily distin. 

 guislied bv its smaller size, tlie form of its leaves, and their 

 acuter apex, the smaller and denser cells of the lamina apicalis, 

 and other characters. 



ii. 

 Notes and records. 

 1 . Lrptostomum inclinans R.Bi\; L. ^/lexipile CM.. 



This fine moss, not hitherto recorded from New South Wales, 

 though often found in Tasmania and Victoria, was collected by 

 Mr. Boorman on Harrington Tops in Januar}', 1916, in ample 

 material in good condition. Our only Leptostomum, up to now, 

 has been L. erectma li.Br. New South Wales records of L. 

 macrocarpiim Hedw , existed formerly in the Melbourne Herba- 

 rium, but the specimens proved, upon examination, to be L. 

 erecHim. 



2. Hampeella fallens (Lacoste) Fleischer. 



This unique little moss is a tropical and subti'opical species. 

 In Australia, it was first found by Mr Thomas Wliitelegge on 

 Cambewarra Mountain in 1885, and was regarded bj' Dr. V. F. 

 Brotherus as a new genus, Whiteleggea (australis). It was pub- 

 lished, however, in the first Part of Brotherus' "Some new 

 Species of Australian Mo.sses," as Lcpidopilnm ansfrale, the de- 

 scription being based on specimens collected at Harvey's Creek, 

 North Queensland, by the late F. M. Baile3^ Mr. Whitelegge 

 found it again, in 1891, at Lilyvale; and I was fortunate enough 

 to find it at several places on the Richmond and Brunswick 

 Rivers, N.S.W., between 1895 and 1901. When my specimens 

 were sent to Dr. lU-otherus, he remarked on "this interesting 

 rediscovery of Whiteleggea australis," having apparently, up to 

 this point, ovei'looked its identity with his Lepidopilum australe. 

 liut in his " Bryales" (Engler's Pflanzenfamilien), we have the 

 remark (p. 963) that Lepidopilnm australe belonged to the new 

 genus, Whiteleggea. IJefore, however, this great work was com- 

 pleted, the distinguished author had discovered that he had been 

 anticipated, and he desci'ibed and figured this curious moss 

 under the name Hampeella pallens (Lac.) Fleisch. It turned 



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