134 TASMANIAN BRYOPHYTA, 



\entral keel, apex obtuse with a very small tubular 

 mouth. Capsule spherical, not split to the base, ela.tors 

 attached to the apex of the lobes. 



Sub-genus (laleUoha falcaia. Lobule strongly curved 

 "vvith a- very oblique mouth, base swollen, apex acute. 



1. Perianth smooth with a ventral keel 2 



Perianth smooth without a keel ... dcphinata 

 Perianth hair}'' when young 4 



2. Trigones concave, walls straight 3 



Trigones convex, walls sinuous KCduden-i 



3. Most underleaves dentatei' prohoacifera 



Underleaves entire fdlciloha 



4. Lobule with a sjDiiious apex... .;. ... monocera 

 Lobule obtuse roxfeUata 



Sub-genus Galeilo^iCi cucuUatd. Lobule straight, hel- 

 met shaped to nearly hemispheric, placed close to and 

 parallel to the stem, often a minute style intervening. 



Perianth smooth cranial is 



Perianth ribbed peniaplnira 



Periantii hairy jiyniantlia 



Sub-genus Biaataloha. Lobule pitcher-shaped, remote 

 from the stem and placed obliquely, a short broad style 

 intervening. 



Plant small, red or yellow diplota 



FruUania falciloha, Taijl. — Hather robust, livid 

 brown to dull green. Leaves 0.8 mm. long, 1.2 mm. 

 broad; cells 18 ^x., trigones rather large, walls ne-arly 

 straight; lobule large, strongly curved, mouth elongated 

 beyond the leaf-mai-gin ; underleaves rotimd, three times 

 as broad as the stem, l-3rd bifid, margin entire or pro- 

 tuberant in the middle ; bracts large, oblong, obtuse ; mar- 

 gin generally with 1-2 short teeth, otherwise plain, lobule 

 lanceolate laciniate ; bracteole bifid with 2 lat-eral lobes all 

 acute and laciniate. Perianth smooth, dorsally convex, 

 ventrally concave with a narrow keel. 



Distinguished from Fi-. prohoscif era by smaller size 

 and larger trigones. 



Occasionally in forests. 



Eastern Australia. 



FruUania deplanafa, ^fitt. — Medium size, dull green. 

 Leaves nearly flat, obliquely ovate with an expanded dor- 

 sal base, 0.8 mm. long, 0.5 mm. broad; cells 18-24 ^., 

 trigones medium, walls nearly straight; lobide curved 

 short and broad; underleaves ovate-rotund, twice as broad 



