100 TASMANIAN BRYOPHYTA, 



BLINDIA AKCUATA, Mitt. 



Suberect, slender, yellowish green, usually 2-4 cm. 

 Leaves subulate from a broad sheathing base, 4 m.m. ; mar- 

 gin entire; nerve broad for the genus, flat, ill-defined, oc- 

 cupying all the upper half of the leaf ; cells linear, strongly 

 incrassate; all the basal cells quadrate, a patch of brown cells 

 forming a small auricle. Seta 5 m.m. ; capsule ovate, 0.7 

 m.m. ; peristome well developed, the teeth cleft nearly to 

 the base. 



Summit Mount Wellingto'U, Mount Field. 



BLINDIA EOBUSTA, Hampe. 



Syn : Dicranum angustifolium, Hf. W. 



Erect, slender, 5-6 cm. Leaves shining yellow-olive, 

 usually secund, long, slender, curved, lower third narrow, 

 lanceolate, the rest subulate, consisting wholly of nerve 7 

 m.m. ; nerve flat, thin, not broad, often narrow ; cells 

 linear, incrassate, those of the basal angles quadrate, in- 

 flated, coloured, forming an indistinct auricle. Seta 1 cm. ; 

 capsule erect, 1 m.m., broadly oblong, mouth expanded; 

 peristonie none. 



Mount Wellington, Cradle Mountain. 



BLINDIA TENUIFOLIA, H.f. et W. 



Habit, size, and general structure of B. robusta. Leaves 

 5 m.m., base broad, the wings tapering above, and extend- 

 ing to the upper third ; nerve slender; cells linear, a patch 

 of many inflated quadrate cells forming a distinct auricle. 

 Other details as in B. robusta. 



Mount Wellington, Western Tiers. 



DICRANUM, Hedw. 



Robust mosses, usually with strong to elongated stems, 

 with few branches, rarely short. Leaves lanceolate, generally 

 tapering to more or less elongated filiform tips, rarely ovate, 

 glossy and smooth, rarely opaque or papillose; nerve from 

 faint and vanishing above to bold and excurrent, solid or 

 furrowed ; margin spinulose to plain ; cells in most in- 

 stances linear, sometimes oblong, quadrate, or rotund, but 

 always a patch of enlarged quadrate, usually brown cells at 

 the basal angles, called for short the alars- Seta medium to 



