234 TASMANIAN BRYOPllYTA, 



U.S. TAS. 



parent, oblong; nerve obsolete, single or double, rather 

 variable even on the same stem, but always obscure and 

 vanishing below the middle ; cells long vermiform, in- 

 crassate, broader at the base. Seta inserted below the 

 green portion of the shoot, erect, rather long; capsule 

 narrow, oblong, smooth, erect; lid rostrate nearly as long 

 as the capsule ; calyptra longer cucuUate ; exostome ab- 

 sent; endostome membrane short, processes rather long, 

 lanceolate, perforate, cilia none. 



Lepyrodon lagurus (Hook.) Hpe. 

 Syn : Leucodon lagurus Hook, 

 Pale green in soft dense cushions. Leaves delicate, 

 broadly oblong, concave, obtuse, but with a hairlike den- 

 tate apiculus, erect, densely imbricate, shining, 3 mm. ; 

 margin obscurely serrate. Seta red, 2.5 cm. ; capsule 

 oblong, pale yellow, 3 mm. 



Near .summit of Mount Wellington. 



Glyptothecium Hmpe. 



Medium-sized mosses, stems simple or nearly so, erect 

 from a creeping base forming small tufts on dead wood. 

 Leaves delicate, transparent, ovate, lanceolate acute, with 

 two obsolete nerves or ner\^eless ; calls fusiform incrassate, 

 a broad band of short oblong cells oil the margin from the 

 base for some distance upwards. Seta lateral rather short ; 

 capsule erect, obovatc-oblong, smooth, mouth narrow ; lid 

 rostrate ; calyptra cucullate, slender ; exostome teeth in- 

 curved, rather long, slender lanceolate, pale, smooth, trans- 

 versely delicately striate, endostome a shallow erose mem- 

 brane. 



GlyptotJiecium sciuroides (Hook.) Hpe. 

 Syn : Cladomnion sciuroides, H.f. et W. 



Stems erect usually 3-5 cm., generally simple, yellowish. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, patent 2.5 mm. ; margin 

 irregularly dentate ; nerves just visible. Seta 5 mm. ; 

 capsule 1.6 mm. ; lid in some specimens shortly rostrate, in 

 others half as long as the capsule. 



Slopes of Mt. Wellington, Bellerive. 



Pleurophascum Llndb^. 



Habit erect simple or with few erect branches, solitary 



or gregarious. Leaves thin, broad, concave, nerveless ; 



cells large, incrassate, the walls with prominent pores and 



nodular on the internal surface, rhomboid above, nearly 



