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SOME ADDITIONS TO THE BRTOLOGICAL FLORA 



OF TASMANIA. 



By W. a. Weymouth, 



Part III. 

 Read December \sty 19G2. 



The first and second parts of this series appeared in the 

 Papers and Proceedings of the Eoyal Society of Tasmania 

 for the years 1893 and 1894.-5 respectively. They dealt only 

 with mosses. The present paper includes both mosses and 

 hepatics. 



For the skilled determination of the mosses I am still 

 indebted to the courtesy of Professor V. F. Brotherus, 

 of Helsingfors, Finland, whose fourth and fifth parts of 

 " Some New Species of Australian Mosses " furnish the 

 description of new species that follow. 



The hepatics have been very kindly determined byHerr F. 

 Stephaui, of Leipzig, through the courteous intervention of 

 Dr. E. Levier, of Florence, who has rendered me great ser- 

 vice in the preparation, submission, and return of my 

 specimens. 



Under the first of the following headings are given the 

 original descriptions of five new mosses, and the names only 

 of four others, bringing the total of new species added to Mr. 

 E. A. Bastow's list of 1386 up to 37. The second heading 

 covers eleven mosses already known elsewhere, but now first 

 recorded for Tasmania. 



The third part consists of new hepatics, numbering 17, the 

 descriptions of which are, I am assured, in course of publica- 

 tion by Mr. Stephani in his elaborate work, " Species Hepati- 

 carum," but are not now available to me. 



The fourth part gives those hepatics which, while not new 

 to science, are now newly recorded for Tasmania. These 

 number no fewer than 92 species to be added to Bastow's 

 enumeration in the Proceedings of this Society for 1887. 

 It is interesting to note that of these one, Acroholhus piliferus, 

 is among Archer's Hepatics, but does not appear to have been 

 noted locally ; and a second, Mastigobryum accretum, doubt- 

 fully recorded as found by Gunn over 70 years ago, is now 

 confirmed by Mr. Stephani on recent specimens. 



New Mosses. • 



29. Anomodon tasmanicus, Broth., n. sp. 



Dioiciis ; gracilis, caespitosus, caespitibus laxis, ochraceis ; 

 caulis secundarius flexuosus, hie illic ferrugineo-tomentosus, 

 dense foliosus, superne subfasciculatimraniosus, ramis erecto- 

 patentibus, haud complanatis, vIk' ultra 1 cm altis, dense 

 foliosis, simplicibus vel furcatis, obtusis ; folia sicca laxe 



