Some New Species of Australian Mosses described 



by 

 V. F. Brotherns. 



III. 



53. Andreaea amblyophylla C.-Miill. in sched. 



Dioicu; pulvinata, pulvinulis ad 2 cm. usque altis, ri- 

 gidis, facile dilabentibus, rubro-vel atrofuscis; caidis erec- 

 tus, dichotome ramosus, ramis fastigiatis, dense foliosis, 

 obtusis; folia sicca imbricata, humida erecto-patentia, oblon- 

 go-vel ovato-lanceolata, subcucullata, rotundato-obtusa, dorso 

 grosse papillosa, marginibus integerrimis, enervia, cellulis 

 valde incrassatis, superioribus et marginalibus rotundatis, 

 medii folii anguste oblongis, basilaribus linearibus; bracteae 

 perichaetii foliis multo majores, convolutaceae, rotundato- 

 obtusae. 



Patria. New South Wales, Blue Mountains, 3500 p. 

 (Th Whitelegge n. 302) Tasmania, Knocklofty pr. Hobart 

 (W. A. Weymouth n. 262, 475, 476, 477, 1618, 1618 a) 

 Mt Wellington (W. A. Weymouth n. 1634, 1635, 1643). 



Species ab A. petrophila Ehrh., habitu simili, foliis ro- 

 tundato-obtusis, subcucullatis prima scrutatione dignoscenda. 



This species seems to come very near to A. Huttoni 

 Brown Träns. New Zeal. Inst. T. XXV, p. 279 or may be 

 identical with it. As, however, I have not had an oppor- 

 tunity of examining specimens of A. Huttoni, but ground my 



