. 
Musci Exoric3.—WMenvziesiani. 
FABRONIA AUSTRALIS, 
Fabronia caule repente ramoso, foliis erectis lanceolatis 
Jonge acuminatis reticulatis subserratis, nervo brevi, 
capsula elliptica, operculo planiusculo. (Tas. CLX.) 
i enz. MSS. 
Fabroniz spec. 
Has. In sinu King George dicto, in Nova Hollandia, D. Men- 
zies, 1791. 
Planta minutissima oculo nudo conferve simulans. Caules cxs- 
pitosi, repentes, vage ramosi. Folia luteo-viridia, erecta, ap- 
pressa, lanceolata, longe acuminata, parum concava, areolis ob- 
longis angustis reticulata, margine subserrata, nervo obscuro 
ante medium evanescente instructa. Perichetialia breviora, 
magis concava. Se/@ vix duas lineas long, erect, curvate, 
pallide fuscescentes, incrassate. Cupsula erecta, exacte ellip- 
tica, fusca, senectute 
tra dimidiata, parcel planum, centro umbonatum. Pe-« 
ristomium 8-dentatum, dentibus obtusis, transversim striatis, 
horizontalibus, incurvatis, rufo-fuscis, singulo linea media lon- 
gitudinali notato. 
a= 
So nearly does the present species approach to the F. poly- 
earpa (Tas. III.), that I for some time hesitated whether or 
not it should be considered as a variety of it. Their size is nearly 
the same, and they may be numbered among the minutest of the 
m In the F. australis, however, the leaves are erect and 
appressed, not in the least patent, as in the F. polycarpa, of a 
narrower figure, much more acuminated, and subserrated, with 
down the centre. 
Fig. 1, tuft of plants, nat, size. Fig. 2, single plants. Fig. 3, 
leaf. Fig. 4, perichztial leaf. Fig. 5, capsule. Fig. 6, operculum, 
Fig. 7, calyptra, Fig. 8, peristome. Fig. 9, teeth of ditto.— 
magn. 
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