182 TASMANIAN BP.YOPHYTA, 



Nerve just excurrent in a slender 



Border broad, well-defined 



Border ill-defined 



Nerve excurrent in a long point- 

 Margin with short serrations 



Mar<iin coarsely serrate 



Margin with a few serrations at apex, 



or none 



E.S. TAS. 



point. 



leptothecium 

 tnicrorliodon 



rnfescens 

 creberrimum 



Border little or none. 



Margin serrate 



Margin plain. 



Mouth of capsule constricted 

 Mouth }>road 



Nerve shortly excurrent. 

 campylothecium 



fas7na.7i,iciwi 

 eras sum 



Group B. Leaves ovate, with a tapering acuminate apex, to 

 lanceolate. Nerve excurrent. Plants mostly smaller 

 than in Group A, and the leaves often not clustered at the 

 ends of the shoots. 



Leaves ovate, clustered at the tips; border narrow. 

 Margin serrate. 



Capsule deep red pyrotheclum 



Capsule brown cajnllare 



Margin plain. 



Mouth constricted intermedium, 



Mouth broad microsiporum 



Leaves ovate, dispersed forquescens 



Leaves lanceolate, dispersed, unbordered. 



Margin subserrulate caespiticioides 



Margin plain cnrvicollum 



Group C. Leaves dispersed along the shoot. Nerve lost in 

 or below the apex, rarely very shortly excurrent. Capsule 

 with a short tapering neck. Plants of various sizes. 



Rather robust. Leaves oblong obtuse, 

 or below the apex. 



Margin unbordered 



Border of 1-2 linear cells 



Border of incras«ate cells 



Small. Leaves narrow, oblong, rather 

 obtuse, unbordered. Nerve lost 



below the apex 



Small. Leaves acuminate unbordered... 



Small. Leaves with a broad border, 



serrulate above 



Nerve lost in 



hlandum 



laevigatum 



rubiffinosum 



chrysoneuron 

 erythru carpoides 



laevic/atulum 



