120 TASMANIAN BRYOPHYTA, 



with thick walls. Archegonia on short ventral branches; 

 perianth long, narrow trigonous, month constricted. 



The commoner Tasmanian plant differs from Lepiclozia 

 in little but habit. 



Lemhidiani tenax (Grev.), St. — Branches 1-2 cm. Stem 

 leaves closely appressed, reniform divided to the middle 

 into 6-8 slender lobes, margin of disk dentate, leaves of 

 branches more spreading quadrificl, ultimate leaves very 

 i,mall tritid. 



Placed by Lindberg in Lepidozia, to which it appears 

 to have at least equal affinity. 



Common. 



East Australia. New Zealand. Auckland Islands. 



Lembidium anofnalmn, Rod. — Stems pinnately 

 branched ascending froin a creeping stoloniferous base, dark 

 livid green. Leaves imbricate to distant incubous or sub- 

 transverse, rotund very concave erect, 0.9 mm., margin 

 entire; cells unequal mostly 18 ^., sometimes a band of 

 pale cells on the margin, walls rather thick, trigones large 

 to small, cuticle smooth; underleaves similar in size and 

 shape to the leaves. Bracts oblong 2 mm. adherent to the 

 perianth ; perianth terminating a short lateral brauch, 

 narrow cylindric, 8 mm. long, mouth tapering fimbriate, 

 capsule oblong. 



Cradle Mt. West Coast. 



PSILOCLADA, MiTTEM. 



Plants small, dark, usually creeping amongst more 

 robust mosses. Stems small, slender, branched. Leaves 

 succubous remote, patulous 4-6 lobed, lobes slender, cells 

 rather small with thick walls; underleaves transverse, 

 little smaller than the leaves, deeply 4 or 3-lobed. Perianth 

 on short lateral branch cylindric curved apex split into 

 numerous slender laciniae, bracts numerous deeply 3-4 

 lobed, lobes many dentate. 



Very like J^epidozia, only leaves succubous and peri- 

 r.nth and bracts different. 



PsilorJcda chindeMina, M/ff.--Yery small, bipinnate. 

 Leaves 0.3 mm., base patent, lobes erect, lobes 4-6 slender, 

 cells 17 ^.; underleaves as broad as the stem, sinuately 

 inserted, 2- 3rd quadrilobed. 



West Coast. 



New Zealand. New Guinea. South Africa. 



