578 AUSTRALIAN, TASMANIAN, AND NEW ZEALAND MOSSES, 



tenuis, rubra : fheca inclinata, minuta, paulum asymnietrica, 

 ovalis, pallida ; operaidum e basi conica oblique rostratum ; 

 operculum ignotum. 



N.S.W.: Moss Vale, Fitzroy Falls (Forsyth, n.669). 



Species pulchra, rigiditate nee non foliis minutissime areolatis 

 dignoscenda. 



Var. hptoclarhis (C. Miill.) Broth., n.var. 



8yn., Fissidens leptocladvs C. Mull., in Herl). Weymouth. 

 Grracilior, folia minora, nervo tenuiore. 



Tasmania: Mt. Wellington, Guy Fawkes Rivulet, on wet rocks 

 (Weymouth, n.385), on face of rocks (n.21o7), and on damp 

 bank (n. 2281). 



195. Fissidens {Bryoidinm) pr^emollis Broth., n.sp. 



Robustiusculus, ca?spitosus, csespitibus densis, mollibus, pallide 

 viridibus, opacis; can lis erectus, usque ad 3 cm. longus, basi 

 fusco-radiculosus, laxe foliosus, dichotome ramosus, ramis fasti- 

 giatis; folia multijuga, homomallula, flaccida, sicca conti'actula et 

 flexuosula, late ovato-oblonga, obtusa, apiculata, l'4-l"6mm. 

 longa, c. 0'57 mm. lata, summo apice minutissime serrulata, 

 limbata, limbo biseriato, hyalino, infra sunnnum apicem evanido, 

 nervo pallide viridi, infra summum apicem folii evanido, lamina 

 vera lamina apicali longior, lamina dorsalis ad basin nervi enata, 

 basi angustata, cellulis rotundato-hexagonis, superioribus c. O'OIO 

 mm., parce chlorophyllosis, la^vissimis. Cpetera ignota. 



N.S.W. : Richmond River, Skinner's Head, cliff, cave (Watts, 

 n.537l). 



Species distinctissima, mollitie foliorumque forma faciliter 

 dignoscenda. 



196. Fissidens {Bryoidium) aristatus Broth., n.sp. 



Dioicus: gracilis, csespitosus, cjespitibus plerumque densius- 

 culis, viridibus vel lutescenti-viridibus, opacis ; canlis erectus, 

 5-1 0mm. longus, infima basi fusco-radiculosus, densiuscule foliosus, 

 simplex; yb^ia usque ad 10 juga, infima minuta, superiora multo 

 majora, lanceolato-ligulata, bi'eviter acuminata, acuta, usque ad 



