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Strictly speaking this moss is not now newly recorded for 
Tasmania, for Hampe must have had an original specimen 
for determination, collected perhaps by Schuster. There is, 
however, no local record of it; but in Mitten’s Australian 
Catalogue of 1882 T. Tasmanicus appears as identical with 
Splachnum Gunn, H.W. 
A comparison of our specimens with S. Gunnii of Gunn’s 
collection in this Museum, made by Mr. Ll. Rodway and 
myself, shows that the present moss differs markedly from 
S. Gunnii in its entire instead of dentate leaves, the upper 
obovate-lanceolate with excurrent nerve, the lower ovoid- 
acuminate with nerve reaching to apex; in its brown seta; 
in its capsule, which has a subspherical not an oblate 
apophysis ; and in its teeth, which are reflexed when dry, not 
erect. 
[Since this was read, Hampe’s description has reached me, 
by the courtesy of Dr. Brotherus, and it now follows :— 
“Densely compact, low, hardly an inch high, base attenuate, 
blackish, interwoven with tomentum, apex of a roselike crown, 
short, yellowish-green, densely leaved, simple or developing a 
short branch. Leaves concave, narrower at the base, obovate- 
acuminate, entire; nerve yellowish, cuspidate ; cells lax, pel- 
lucid, the basal elongate, rectangular or parallelogrammic, 
towards apex of leaf gradually shorter and sub-hexagonal. 
Seta apical, short, thickened towards its apex into a vesiculose, 
membranous, ovate apophysis. Capsule small, blackish, 
attenuate from a broader base, conical, with small mouth ; 
columella persistent; the teeth of the injured peristome 
short, rather wide, membranous, reflexed. The rest absent. 
Mount Towers, Lake Pedder, Tasmania. Scarcely to be com- 
pared with 7. wurceolatus; in its small, conical, small- 
mouthed capsule it differs in the widest way from all 
species.” | 
12. Funaria spherocarpa, C. Mull. 
Very like F. hygrometrica. Leaves narrowly oblong-lan- 
ceolate, always complicate and crisp; nerve strong, excurrent, 
running the length of the leaf; cells everywhere elongate 
and lax, at margin narrower, reticulate; quite entire. Peri- 
gonial leaves entire. Capsule somewhat larger, globose both 
when dry and when wet, without a neck, lightly sulcate. Aus- 
tralasia, Green Cape, Twofold Bay.—Bot. Zeit. 1851, p. 546. 
On loamy soil, Queen River Road, Macquarie Harbour, 
1891, W. A. Weymouth, No. 644. 
(Also found in Queensland.) 
13. Bryum Gambierense, C. Mull. in Linnea 1871, 148. 
On the ground, Lymington, Port Cygnet, 1889, W. A. 
Weymouth, No. 242. 
