114 TASMANIAN BRYOPHYTA, 



7. Green or yellow appres.sifolla 



Brown to black sachllen-^is 



Each margin with a short supple- 

 mentary lobe s(^ifid(t 



8. Plant glaucous, small rent I pes 



Green, lobes acute spreading rapiUn/era 



Dark brownish, lobes setaceous diverg- 

 ent sffiformis 



Green robust lobes erect r/ros.^isef(i. 



Section asymmetricae. — Leaves asymmetric, the dorsal 

 margin much longer and more curved than the ventral. 



9. Margin nude or 1-2 teeth 10 



Margin armed 1^ 



10. Plant green or yellow H 



Plant glaucous (jkiucopliyUa 



11. Leaves patent concave, lobes incurved ... 12 

 Leaves of main stem at least closely 



appressed 14 



12. Margin with 1-2 short- acute teeth chord uJifera 

 Margin nude 13 



13. Leaves 0.3 mm. with short lobes ... h-vi folia 

 Leaves 0.9 mm. divided to the 



middle asymmetricn 



14. Branch leaves close patent procera 



All leaves closely appressed remote... parvitexta 



15. Leaf-margin ai-med with cellular teeth 



or cilia cdhnla 



Leaf -margin armed with simple or 

 forked unicellular spines ajipendicuJata 



Lepidozia tasmanica, St. — Small, yellow-green, with 

 many capillary branches. Leaves remote patent incurved, 

 nearly transversely inserted oblong, 2 -3rd bifid, rarely the 

 lower ones 3-4 lobed, 0.4 mm., base 2 cells high, lobes 

 lanceolate erect or incurved, cells rectangular, mostly 60 x 

 22 IX. ; underleaves similar but only l-3rd as large. Perianth 

 naiTow cylindric 2-3 mm., mouth fimbriate. 



Longley. West Coast. 



^I.epidozia rastiJoha, St. — Very small, densely caespitose, 

 irregularly branched. Leaves obcuneate nearly trans- 

 versely inserted very concave, symmetric trilobed to the 

 middle, 0.5 mm. long, lobes incurved oblong-triangular ob- 

 tuse 4 cells wide at the base ; cells 27 ij.. ; underleaves 

 small appressed, 2-3rd trilobed. 



West Coast. 



East Australia. 



