184 TASMANIAN BRYOPHYTA, 



R.S. TAS, 



the cells are rather large, excurremt nei^e longer, the 

 border less developed, and the serration smaller than in 

 the type. 



Very common about Hobart. 



Brywn lejdotheciiwi Tajl. 



Often robust and exceeding 3 cm. Leaves rosulate and 

 spreading at the tips cf the innovations, often appearing 

 as whorls along old stems, obovate to broadly spathulate, 

 3 mm. ; margin with a broad border of linear incrassate 

 cells, sharj)ly serrate above, revolute below ; nerve only just 

 excurrent from the apex in a minute, cuspidate, recurved 

 23oint; cells long-rhomboid, unequal, averaging 54 x 12/" 

 Seta very lo^ng, capsule clavate, usually curved, 3 mm., 

 tapering at the base, mouth little contracted; lid pyramidal,, 

 umbonate. 



Very common everywhere in woods. 



Bryum fnicrorhodon CM. 

 Medium size, erect, the innovations about 1cm. Leaves 

 mostl}? clustered in globose rosulate tufts at the ends, often 

 in tiers along the branches, crecto-patent, not spreading, 

 broadly ovate, oblong to oblong spathulate, shortly acumi- 

 nate, 2ram. ; margin revolute below, serrulate above^ 

 slightly thickened, but without a well-defined border; nerve 

 red excurrent in a short mucro ; cells regularly broadly 

 rhomboid, 35 x 13^. Seta 3 cm.; capsule oblong, 3 mm., 

 with a, shortly tapering neck ; lid hemispheric with a very 

 small umbo. With much the appearance of B. lejptothecium 

 it is intermediate between that species and 5. campylotheckmi. 



Slopes of Mt. Wellingtoii, Mt. Field. Bruni Island, Forth 

 River, etc. 



Brymii rvfescens H.f. et W. 



Medium sized, innovations short except in strong shade. 

 Leaves oblong-spathulate, acuminate, erecto-patent, den- 

 sely clustered at ends of innovations or more dispersed when 

 elongated, 2 mm. ; margin with a narrow border of thicken- 

 ed linear cells, revolute below, with short serrations above; 

 nerve excurrent in a long slender cuspidate point; cells 

 irregularly rhomboid, thin walled, averaging 65 x 20At. 

 Seta slender, 3 cm. ; capsule broadly cylindric, 4 mm., with 

 a tapering base; mouth not constricted; lid broadly 

 hemispheric with a central umbo. 



Very close to B. BUIardlt'ri and apparently connected by 

 intermediate forms. The typical plant has a reddish colour, 

 with a deep red nerve, seta and capsule, but this is incon- 

 stant. 



In woods, Mt. Wellington, Cradoc, Strahan, etc. 



