BY L. RODWAY. 93 



CYNODONTIUM TASMANICUM, Broth. 



Small, bright green, stems seldom exceeding 2 m.m. 

 Leaves narrow, linear, subacute, concave ; nerve broad, 

 continuous, dentate; margin thickened, doubly seiTate ; 

 cells smooth, long, rectangular, shorter above; 2.5 m.m. 

 Seta flexuose, 2 m.m. Capsule erect, red, oblong, 1 m.m. ; 

 lid with a slender oblique rostrum as long as the capsule; 

 peristome teeth red below, pale above, 0.3 m.m. 



On the ground in a beech forest. Blue Tier. 



CAMPYLOPODIUM, CM. 



Small. Leaves abruptly setaceous, from a narrow 

 sheathing base ; nerve bold ; cells quadrate above, those 

 of the sheath long, rectangular. Seta slender, flexuose; 

 capsule erect, grooved; calyptra broadly cucuUate ; edge 

 plain; lid rostrate; peristome of 16 bold teeth, divided 

 half wav into two slender unequal papillose legs. Distin- 

 guished from smaller species of Campylopus by the plain 

 edge of the calyptra. 



CAMPYLOPODIUM FLEXIPES (Mitt.), Broth. 

 Syn : Trematodon flexipes, Mitt. 



Small, tufted, dark green. Leaves suddenly subulate 

 from the sheathing base, 3-5 mm. ; margin irregularly den- 

 tate ; nerve rather broad, continuous, the wings vanishing 

 in the upper portion. Seta 2-3 m-m. ; capsule broadly ellip- 

 tic, 0.6 m.m. ; lid nearly fiat, with a slender, oblique ros- 

 trum, nearly as long as the' capsule ; calyptra with a 

 broad, plain base. 



Western Mountains, King River, Slopes of Mount 

 Wellington. 



ANISOTHECIUM, Mitt. 



Stems short or longer, slender, erect, with few branches 

 or simple. Leaves small, patent, or squarrose, lanceolate, 

 acute or abruptly subulate from a broad base, smooth, 

 keeled ; margin plain or revolute ; nerve narrow, vanishing 

 above ; cells rather large, thin walled, quadrate or nearly 

 so above, gradually longer towards the base, no differentiat- 

 ed alars. Seta slender ; capsule smooth, curved, rarely sub- 

 erect ; lid ccnic or rostrate ; calyptra cucullate ; peris- 

 tome red or purple, the teeth short, irregular, entire in 

 Tasmanian Species. 



