114 TASMAMIAN BRYOPHYTA, 



ULOTA LUTEA, Mitt. 



In small, dense, yellowish mats; stems seldom 1 cm. 

 Lieaves erecto-patent, linear-lanceolate with a rather sudden 

 broad expansion above the base, closely crisped when dry, 

 3 m.m. ; margin slightly thickened, very obtusely papillate; 

 nerve lost close below or in the apex ; cells small, rotund, 

 very strongly incrassate with simple, obtuse, short, papil- 

 l;5e, becoming linear towards the base, the colourless mar- 

 ginal band of which is formed of rectangular cells. Seta 

 rather stout, 6 m.m. ; capsule cylindric gradually tapering 

 below, deeply furrowed when dry, 2.5 m.m., mouth broad; 

 lid shortly rostrate ; calyptra copiously hairy ; exostome 

 teeth rather short, pale. 



Mt. Hartz, Mt. Wellington, Western Mts. 



ULOTA FULVA, Brid. 



Yellowish- green to brown, in dense mats. Stems 

 mostly 1-2 cm. Leaves pateni, crowded, lanceolate, very 

 acut^, with a mediumly broad expansion above the base, 

 2.6 m.m.; very crisped when dry; margin marked above 

 with prominent convex papillae, revolute in the middle, 

 plain below ; nerve brown, lost in the apex ; cells irregular- 

 ly rotund, small, very strongly incrassate, simply and fur- 

 cately papillate, linear at the base with a narrow band 

 of rectangular colourless cells. Seta slender 4 m.m. ; cap- 

 sule pyriform with a rather broad mouth and shortly taper- 

 ing base about 1 m.m., deeply furrowed when dry ; lid with 

 a rostrum rather more than half as long as the capsrule; 

 calyptra brown with copious erect yellow shining hairs. 

 Exostome teeth pale, short, triangular, connected by bars 

 above, separating in the middle line ; endostome processes 

 slender, shorter. 



Hartz Mountains, West Coast- 



ULOTA WEYMOUTHI, Vent. 



Green or brown, stem 1.5-2 cm. Leaves patent or 

 spreading, closely crisped when dry, linear lanceolate from 

 a rather broad expansion, acute, 2.5 m.m. margin slightly 

 thickened, very obtusely papillate; nerve narrow, lost be- 

 low the apex ; cells rotund, strongly incrassate, with a very 

 obtuse surface, towards the base linear with a marginal 

 band of rectangular colourless cells. Seta up to 1 cm. ; 



