544 



THE MOSSES OF NORTH QUEENSLAND. 



By Dr. Y. F. Brotherus and the Rev. AY. Walter Watts. 



Foreword. 

 (By the Rev. W. W. Watts.) 



The following paragraph is reprinted from my paper, " Some 

 Notes on the Ferns of North Queensland" (These Proceedings, 

 1914, Yol. xxxix., Part 4, p.7o6). " In the winter of 1913 (July- 

 August), I spent a month in the Cairns district in search of 

 Ferns and Mosses. I collected in the rich scrub-lands between 

 Bartle Frere and the Russell River, more especially in the 

 neighbourhood of Josephine Creek; around Babinda also, and 

 up Frenchman's Creek to beyond the Second Falls. - Babinda 

 and Frenchman's Creek lie at the base of Bellenden Ker, along 

 the coastal railway. Following, later, the main line, I visited 

 Stoney Creek, Kuranda, Atherton, Malanda, Yungaburra, Lake 

 Barrine, and, last and best of all, Ravenshoe and the Tully 

 Falls." 



The mosses of North-east Queensland being essentially Malay- 

 sian, rather than Australian, in their affinities, specimens from 

 all my packets were submitted to the distinguished expert. Dr. 

 Y F. Brotherus. Despite the war, with its submarine dangers, 

 every parcel reached Helsingfors in safety, and, by the end of 

 1917, full reports, in return, came to hand. The number of new 

 species is smaller than I anticipated, owing, in part, to the zeal 

 of the late Government Botanist of Queensland, Mr. F. Manson 

 Bailey, C.M.G., F.L.S., but mainly to the aforesaid Malaysian 

 affinities of the flora. The chief feature of the following pages 

 is the large number of new records. No less than seventeen 

 genera new to Australia are listed, and some thirty known 

 species. One new genus, Pterohryidinni, is described, and there 

 are fourteen new species. In addition, many of the species 

 recorded are new for tropical Queensland, though not new for 

 Australia. The new genus was first found by me, in 1913, at 



