230 TASMANIAN BRYOPHYTA, 



R.S. TAS. 



Brandies slender; papillae minute and few ... intricata. 

 Leaves with small auricles. 



Auricles dentate Jcermandecensis. 



Auricles obtusely papillate filipendula. 



Papillaria fiavo-limhata (Hpe, et CM.) Par. 

 Syn : Meteorium cerinum H.f. et W. 



Branches rather robust with closely overlapi^ing yellow- 

 ish leaves, often ending in filiform flagella. Leaves of 

 main branches broadly ovate-lanceolate from a broad cor- 

 date or auricled base, acute, 2 mm. ; margin in^egularly 

 serrate along the auricle, entire or nodulose above ; nerve 

 rather bold, lost in the upper third, surface smooth at the 

 base and partially so towards the margin, elsewhere the 

 cells with 4. or 5 closely nodulose papillae; cells oblong, 

 rather longer below. 



George River, Upper Meander Biver. 



FapiUaria intricata (Mitt.) Jaeg. 



Slender, with rather numerous short cuspidate branches, 

 usually brownish-yellow. Leaves erecto-patent, imbricate, 

 with a very broadly auricled base and tapering acute apex, 

 L5 mm.; margin irregularly toothed on the auricles, more 

 obscurely so above; nerve faint vanishing in the upper 

 third ; cells fusiform ; surface with few very minute 

 nodules on the cells in the middle of the leaf. 



East Tamar. 



Fayillaria Kermadecensis CM. 



Slender, very long, filiform with short branches at in- 

 tervals. Leaves erecto-patent, imbricate, broadly ovate- 

 lanceolate, the base rather cordate or auricled, apex of 

 lower leaves with a subacute to acute flexed tip, upper 

 leaves obtuse, 1.5 mm.; margin dentate below nearly plain 

 above ; nerve well-defined, canaliculate, lost below the 

 apex ; cells irregularly oblong, those of the auricles smooth, 

 smaller and rounder ; most of the leaf closely covered 

 with minute nodulose papillae. 



West Tamar. 



Papillaria fHiiiendula (H.f. et W.) Jaeg. 



Syn : Meteorium fHipendulum H.f. et W., 



M, flexicaule. Mitt. 



Long, slender, with distant, filiform branches. Leaves 

 erecto-patent, imbricate ovate-lanceolate, base not broadly 

 auricled, apex subobtuse, 0.8 mm. ; margin with minute 



