BY L. RODWAY. 239 



1913. 



Vatliaroninion cilmtum (Hedw.) H.f. et W. 



Stem 2-3 cm. radiculose below, pinnately branched above, 

 branches crowded. Leaves pale green, mixed with bristles, 

 distichous, orbicular, ovate-acuminate ; ventrals much 

 smaller ovate-lanceolate acuminate. 



Not present in any available collection ; possibly record- 

 ed in error. The above description constructed from 

 Hooker's Handbook and Brotherus in Pflanzenfamilien. . . 



Cyathophorum Brid. 



Stems erect from a creeping rhizome, normally simple 

 and quite unbranched. Lateral leaves complanate, widely 

 spreading, nerve obsolete ; ventrals small orbicular closely 

 appressed ; cells rhomboid lax; perichaetials small, narrow, 

 few. Seta short, stout ; capsule broadly oblong, erect ; lid 

 convex with an acutely sharp rostrum ; calyptra short, 

 mitriform ; peristome double, pale; exostome teeth lanceo- 

 late broad, not very slender, closely trabeculate ; endostome 

 membrane short, processes lanceolate, cilia usually 3. 



Cyatho'pliorum bulbosum (Hedw.) CM. 

 Syn : CyatJiophoriim peiinatum , Brid. 



Stems robust, often 10 cm. or more; sometimes only 3 

 cm., rarely bearing a few lateral branches. Lateral leaves 

 broadly spreading, ovate-oblong acute, 7 mm.; margin 

 plain below, spinulose above ; nerve rather obscure, vanish- 

 ing below the middle, cells lax averaging 120 x 30/^. Ven- 

 trals orbicular or oblong, apiculate. Perichaetials few, 

 lanceolate, acute. Seta 3 mm. ; capsule brown 2 mm. 



Very common in damp forests. 



C yathoplinrum cle7i<irpfe Broth. 



Closely resembling the small forais of C. hulhosum. only 

 the foliage stiffer and less transparent. Lateral leaves 

 ovate, more acute, 4 mm. ; margin spinulose above ; nerve 

 shorter and fainter; cells shortly rhomboid rbout 100 x 

 27m. Perichaetials rather longer. Fruit not differing. 



Slopes of Mt. Wellington. Southport, Mt. Bischoff. etc.^ 



Fam. 14— PTEPvYGOPHYLLACEAE. 

 Small to medium sized mosses, decumbent to erect, with 

 few vague branches. Leaves usuallv in 8 rows with a strong 

 tendency to become complanate, generally broad and soft, 

 smooth, nerved or not ; cells generally rotund to hexagonal, 

 rarely fusiform. Seta lateral, long, capsule inclined oblong 

 to pyriform ; lid rostrate ; calyptra mitriform ; peristomer 



