24 T ASM AN IAN BRYOPHYTA. 



BARBULA UNGUICULATA (Huas), Hedw. 



In loose depressed mat., yellowish green, then brownisn 

 stems, 1 — 2 cm. Leaves patent, ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 from the thickened, shortly excurrent nerve, about 2 m.m. ; 

 lower margin recurved; nerve bold, keeled, shortly excur- 

 rent; cells quadrate, not strongly incrassate, obscurely 

 papillate. Seta 2 — 3 cm., purple; capsule narrow, oblong; 

 lid conic-subulate, no annulus ; peristome deep red, twisted. 



On ground New Town. 



ENCALYPTA, Schreber. 



Small caespitose or solitary. Leaves ligulat© or spathu- 

 late ; cells round or rectangular, becoming rather longer 

 and colourless towards the base. Capsule cylindric, erect ; 

 lid long, rostrate ; calyptra mitriform, rostrate, very large, 

 and exceeding the capsule; peristome none, or of 16 small, 

 simple, or divided teeth. 



ENCALYPTA AUSTEALIS, Mitt. 



Erect, simple, about 2 — 10 m.m. Leaves dark green, 

 crowded, erect, broadly elliptic, obtu&e, 2 m.m. ; nerve red, 

 broad, vanishing in the apex ; cells rather large quadrate, 

 coarsely nodulose, papillate. Seta 2 — 10 m.m. ; capsule 

 smooth, broadly cylindric, erect, 2 m.m.; annulus red; lid 

 nearly flat with a subulate rostrum nearly as long as the 

 capsule ; calyptra mitriform, 5 m.m. ; peristome absent. 



Lindisfarne, Bellerive, Waterworks, Hobart. 



