BY L. RODWAY. 45 



a short acute reflexed apex margin with prominent papillae. 

 Sterile. The leaves are narrower and less sheathing than 

 in A. i^etrophila, and the peculiar juvenile foliage is very 

 distinct. 



Cradle Mountain. 



Blindia acuta, Br. et Sch. — Suberect, slender, 2-4 cm., 

 black except the young tips. Leaves crowded erect or 

 little falcate, base rather broad, sheathing occupying less 

 than a third of leaf, rest filiform, wholly composed of 

 nerve: margin entire; nerve broad, flat; length about 4 

 m.m. ; cells linear with no quadrate alars or any auriculai 

 expansion. Seta about 1 cm. thick; capsule hemispheric 

 1 m.m. broad and long; peristome teeth nearly as long as 

 the capsule, irregularly cleft half-way, or deeper. 



Readily distinguished by the hemispheric peristomate 

 capsule, or when sterile from the gymnostomous species by 

 the less falcate leaves and from B. arcuata, Mitt., by the 

 absence of quadrate cells at the basal angle. 



In "Braithwaites Moss Flora," the angular cells are 

 given as "large, orange-brown." This does not appear so 

 in Tasmanian specimens referred to this species. 



Western Tiers, Cradle Mt. 



This moss has been previously recorded for Tasmania, 

 but was not included in this work, because no specimen 

 was present on any available collection. 



The following hepatics are new to science. It was 

 with reluctance that they were so recorded, but no place 

 could be found for them amongst forms already described. 



Aplozia lacerata, n.s. — Stems short in cushions, but 

 often hidden amongst moss, or partially buried in debris, 

 and bearing only a few leaves in the upper portion, tender 

 and pale sage green. Leaves almost transverse oblong to 

 nearly rotund, concave, 0.7 m.m., cells 27 ju., walls thin. 

 Bracts much longer than the leaves, narrow oblong apex 

 slightly fimbriate, bracteole nearly as long as the bracts, 

 ovate obtuse, all adnate to the base of the perianth. 

 Perianth cylindric, with three shallow plaits, little longer 

 than the bracts, mouth narrow to little constricted, deeply 

 3-lobed, lobes narrow laciniate. 



Mt. Wellington Plateau. 



Alicularia tenella, n.s. — Decumbent or ascending, dis- 

 persed amongst other small plants, rarely forming mats. 

 Leaves ascending, flat or slightly concave, oblong to rotund, 

 rather delicate and flaccid, 1 m.m. base subdecurrent ; cells 

 32 ix. Trigones small or none, cuticle smooth. Marsupium 

 short and broad, bracts very large. 



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