Some New Species of Australian Mosses 

 described 



by 



v. F. Brotherus. 



IV. 

 90. Leucobryum strictifolium Broth. n. sp. 



Dioicum; gracile, cäespitosum, caespitibus laxiusculis, 

 dopressis, late extensis, glauco-viridibus; caiilis elongatus, 

 repens, per totam longiludinem radiculosus, dense foliosus, 

 foliis pentastiche dispositis, cuspidatus, densiuscule ramosus, 

 ramis brevibus, dense foliosis, acutis; foUa suberecta, strida, 

 oblongo-lanceolata, superne dorso grosse serrata, mucro- 

 nata, marginibus erectis, superne conniventibus, limbata, 

 limbo hyalino, a seriebus cellularum 5 — 6 formato, usquo 

 ad apicem producto, lamina e stratis cellularum aequalium 

 duobus composita; hracUae ijerichaetii e basi vaginante an- 

 guste acuminatae, latius limbatae, minutius serrulatae; 

 seta lateralis, 1,5 cm alla, flexuosula, tenuis, purpurea; 

 theca cernua, subovalis, asymmetrica, strumosa, sicca plicata' 

 operculum e basi conica longe subulatum. 



Patrla. Queensland, Eumundi (F. M. Bailey n. 914) 

 et sine loco designato (n. 835, 839). New South Wales, 

 Richmond Riwer, Tintenbar (W. W. Watts n. 344), Tuck- 

 ombit, Hunter's Scrub (n. 550, 57 1) et MaxwelPs Scrub 

 (n. 1000). 



Species L. hrachyphyllo Hamp. proxima, sed foliis pen- 

 tastiche dispositis, strictis, latius limbatis dignoscenda. 



