BY L. KODWAY. 135 



In Tasmania it is often large. In shaded places it is slen- 

 der, and dai-ker, closely approaching F. oblongifolius, and 

 was described by Hooker and Wilson as F. ligulatus. 



Slopes of Mt. Wellington, Ida Bay, Macquarie Har- 

 bour. 



FISSIDENS WHITELEGGII, CM. 



Slender, pale green, or yellow, 2-4 cm. Leaves num- 

 erous, nearly erect, imbricate, narrow lanceolate, suddenly 

 narrowing above the sheath, acute, 3 m.m., sheath J leaf 

 length ; nerve bold, vanishing in the apex ; margin non- 

 limbate, veiy slightly crenulate<, minutely serrate towards 

 the apex ; cells irregular, rotund, strongly incrassate, 

 smooth, mostlv 10-15 u. Seta slender, 8 m.m. 



Mt. Bischofl. 



FISSIDENS INTEGERRIMUS, Mitt. 



Stems about 1 cm., densely caespitose. Leaves erecto- 

 patent, imbricate, livid, lanceolate, rather obtuse, 1.7 m.m., 

 sheath half the length ; margin of the lower half of the 

 sheath with a broad border of linear cells, otherwise non- 

 limbate; nei*ve rather narrow, lost in the apex. Ceills 

 irregularly hexagonal-rotund, incrassate, 10-12 u., nearly 

 smooth. Rest not seen. 



Locality not recorded. 



FISSIDENS ELAMELLOSUS, Hpc et CM. 



Small, slender, yellowish, mostly 2-5 m.m. Leaves 

 small, broadly oblong, remote, erecto-patent, incurved, sub- 

 acute, in many pairs, 0.7 m.m., dorsal lamina narrow, lost 

 at a distance from the base; border well developed on the 

 sheath, absent elsewhere; nerve bold, lost in, or just be- 

 low, the apex ; margin irregular ; cells irregularly hexa- 

 gonal, mostly 8-15 u. Seta very slender, 3-4 m.m. ; cap- 

 sule erect, very broadly oblong, 0.5 m.m., mouth broad, 

 constricted below the mouth when dry ; lid conic-rostrate, 

 0.4 m.m. 



On drv sandstone near Bellerive. 



