BY L. ROD WAY. 201 



1913. 



GiGASPERMUM Lindb. 

 Small, creeping, witli short erect branches. Leaves 

 broad, imbricate, nerveless, of delicate texture, the cells 

 large rhomboid and thin walled. Capsule hemispheric on 

 a very short seta immersed in the terminal leaves ; mouth 

 very broad, lid flat, calyptra broad and shoTt, peristome 

 none. 



Gigaspermwn rejjens (Hook) Lindb. 

 Syii : Leptangium repens Mitt. 

 Erect, leafy branches budlike, 2 mm. Leaves pale im- 

 bricate, the upper O'ues broadly ovate, with a long slender 

 apex, 1-1.5 mm.; margin subserrulate. 



On the gTound, Bellerive ; Cataract Hill, Launceston. 



Physcomitrium Brid. 



Small, erect. Leaves oblong, nerve slender, lost below 

 the apex. Capsule obconic; lid shortly convecx, abruptly 

 rostrate or apiculate; calyptra with a short inflated cleft 

 base; peristome, none. 



The tjenus is close to Funaria, but has a different modifica- 

 tion of the base of the calyptra. 



Fhyscomitrium conicum Mitt. 



Small, erect, simple, mostly about 5 mm. Leaves ob- 

 long, acuminate, 2 mm. ; margin of one series of longer 

 cells, serrate above; nerve slender, lost in or below the 

 apex. Seta b mm. ; capsule obcouic, with a broad moutb, 

 1.5 mm. 



Leith's Creek. 



Phi/i^coinifrium laxmn H.f. et W. 



In loose tufts, 1 cm. Leaves dispersed along the st-emj, 

 narrow to broadly oblong, acuminate, 2.5 mm. ; mai^gin 

 plain; nervei vanishing below the apex to rather low down 

 on the leaf. Capsule as in Ph. conicum. 



Probably a shade form of the last. 



Upper Meander River. 



Funaria Schreb. 

 Small, simple, erect. Leaves ovate to lanceolate; cells 

 large, lax. rhomboid. Capsule on a rather or very long 

 seta, pyriform, oblique, and inclined, sometimes nearly 

 erect ; lid short and convex ; calyptra with a large inflated 

 base split on one side ; exostome when well developed of 16 

 slender lanceolate teeth, twisted and attached at the apex 

 to a cribiform disk, from this a series of reductions till 



