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foliosis, plerumque superne divisis, ramulis fastigiatis, bre- 

 vissimis, erectis; folia sicca arcte imbricata, hiimida erecta, 

 canaliculato-concava, e basi oblonga acuminata, nervö ex- 

 cedente clavaeformi terminata, summo apice hyalina, margi- 

 nibus erectis, apice incurvis, integerrimis, limbata, limbo hya- 

 lino, angustissimo, e cellulis elongatis, angustissimis compo- 

 sito, basi et apice obsoleto, nervö hyalino, basi circa O, o 5 

 mm. lato, laevissimo, in appendicem clavaeformem, viridem, 

 apice hyalinum, facile deciduum protracto, cellulis basilaribus 

 kievissimis, parce chlorophyllosis, elongate et anguste rectan- 

 gularibus, infirais aureis, marginalibus quadratis, alaribus plu- 

 riseriatis, quadratis, hyalinis, superioribus verrucosis, pellucidis, 

 minutis, quadratis, incrassatis, chlorophyllosis. Csetera ignota. 



Patria. Queensland, Brisbane, Petrie's Quarries, ubi 

 ad rupes m. Aug. 1890 leg. H. Tryon (n. 798). 



Species valde peculiaris, ioliorum structura facillime 

 dignoscenda. 



27. Fissidens (Conomitrium) splachnoides Broth. in Bail. 

 Contrib. Queensl. FL, Bull. n. 13, p. 21 (nomen solum). 



Dioicus; casspitosus, csespitibus densiusculis, humili- 

 bus, mollibus, pallide viridibus, subvernicosis ; caulis brevissi- 

 mus, vix ultra 3 mm. altus, crassiusculus, inferne ruber, su- 

 perne pallidus, infima basi radiculosus, radiculis longis, fusco- 

 rubris, superne laxe foliosus, simplex; folia '5—4 juga, alter- 

 nantia, flaccidissima, pro plantula magna, homomalla, oblon- 

 gata, breviter acuminata, apiculo obliquo terminata, 1,4 — 1,5 

 mm. longa at 0,4—0,5 mm. lata, integerrima, ubique limbata, 

 limbo angustissimo, albido, lamina vera ad medium producta, 

 lamina dorsali ad basin laminse verse enata, enervia, cel- 

 lulis maximis, splachnoideis, laxissimis, ovali-hexagonis. O, o 4 

 — 0,0 5 mm. longis et O, o 2 — 0,0 2 5 mm. latis, basilaribus am- 

 plioribus, parce chlorophyllosis, Isevissimis; periclicBtium ter- 

 minale, bracteis paucis minutis. Csetera ignota. 



Planta mascula feminesB similis et in eodem csespite 

 proveniens ; perigoniiim terminale, bracteis paucis, minoribus> 

 late vaginantibus, acuminatis, antheridiis numerosis. 



