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SUPPLEMENT TO PROCEEDINGS, 1902. 



CENSUS MUSCORUM AUSTRALIENSIUM. 



A CLASSIFIED Catalogue of the Frondose Mosses of Australia 

 AND Tasmania, collated from available Publications and 

 Herbaria Records, by the Rev. W. Walter Watts and 

 Thomas Whitelegge, F.L.S. 



Part I. 



(MS. received, May 8th, 1902.) 



Introduction. 



By the Rev. W. Walter Watts. 



In 1899 Mr. Whitelegge and I prepared a Catalogue of the 

 Mosses of N.S.W. My colleague had applied himself, with 

 characteristic ardour, to the study of the Mosses of the State, 

 especially in the neighbourhoods of Sydney, Moss Yale, Gosford 

 and the Blue Mountains, first in 1884-85, and again, at the urgent 

 request of Dr, Brotherus, in 1890-91, securing altogether nearly 

 100 new species. In 1892 he had compiled a list, revised by 

 Dr. Brotherus, of some 300 New South Wales species. This work 



