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siile dark red, furrowed, naiTOw, oblong, 1.5 m.m. ; lid 

 slender, rostrate, half as long; calyptra glabrous; peri- 

 stome teeth red, short, recurved, connected at the base. 



On dead wood, Henty River. 



MACROMITRIUM EUCALYPTORUM, Hpe. et CM. 



Slender, creeping, with numerous short, erect, slender 

 branches, olive green, darker below- Leaves narrow-ovate, 

 acute, squarrose, erect, and not twisting when dry, 1.1 

 m.m. ; margin plain ; nerve bold canaliculate, vanishing 

 below the apex ; cells rotund, convex, not vei-y small, those 

 of the base not differing. Rest not seen. 



On trees, Carnarvon. 



MACROMITRIUM MICROPHYLLUM, H. et G- 



Widely spreading, with numerous erect, slender 

 branches, reddish-yellow. Leaves broadly ovate-lanceo- 

 late, patent, erect, and not twisting when dry, 1 m.m. ; 

 margin slightly erosc ; nei've canaliculate, lost below the 

 apex ; cells small, oblong, strongly incrassate, rather longer 

 below. Se+a 1 cm. ; capsule oblong, 2 m.m. ; lid slender, 

 less than half as long ; calyptra copiously hairy ; exostome 

 wanting; endosto'me, a narrow, papillose membrane. 



Ovens Creek. 



ZYGODON, H.f. et T. 



Small, forming tufts, or, when conditions favour it, 

 spreading on bark and sending up short, erect branches, as 

 in Macromitrium. Leaves spathulatc or lanceolate, 

 opaque, minutely papillose; margin plain; nerve round, 

 canaliculate on the upper surface, vanishing in or below the 

 apex (except in Z. minutus) ; cells rotund or oblong, small, 

 slightly incrassate, each with 4-5 nodules, rather longer 

 towards the base. Seta long ; capsule erect, oblong, or 

 neai'ly cylindric ; lid usually with a long oblique rostrum ; 

 calyptra with a narrow base, cucullate, smooth ; exostome, 

 when present, of eight geminate, short, recurved teeth or 

 rudimentary ; endostome of eight or sixteen erect, slender 

 cilia, sometimes also absent. 



Tlie genus is easily recognised, but the species are very 

 close, and some of them of doubtful weight. 



