107 



15. Sphagnum moorei, Warnst., n. sp. 



Hah.— Kelly's Basin and Gordon Eiver, Macquarie Har- 

 bour, on damp ground, 1893, T. B. Moore, No. 54. (Herb 

 W.A.W., No. 1602.) V 



16. Andreaa amblyophylla, C. Mull, in sclied., n. sp. 

 Dioicous ; in rigid, red-brown or black-brown cushions to 



2 cm. high, easily falling to pieces. Stems erect, dichoto- 

 mously branched; the branches fastigiate, obtuse, densely 

 leaved. Leaves imbricate when dry, erecto-patent when wet, 

 oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, subcucullate, rotund- 

 obtuse, coarsely papillose at back, nerveless, margin quite 

 entire ; cells very much thickened, the superior and marginal 

 round, the middle narrow-oblong, and the basal linear. Peri- 

 chaetial bracts much larger than the leaves, convolute, rotund- 

 obtuse. 



Hob.— On rocks, The Glen, Knocklofty, Hobart, W.A.W., 

 Nos. 262, 475, 476, 477, 1618. (Also E. A. Bastow and A. 

 J. Taylor in Herb. W.A.W., Nos. 1301, 1302.) Top Mount 

 Wellington, W.A.W.,Nos. 1634, 1635, 1643. 



(Also New South Wales, Blue Mountains, T. H. White- 

 legge, No. 302.) 



_ Similar in habit to A. petrophila, Ehrh., but readily dis- 

 tinguished by the rotuDd-obtuse and subcucullate leaves. 



17. Dicranum rigens, Burch. Broth., n. sp. 



Hab.~ On rock, Ploughed Field, Mount Wellington, 1891, 

 and on log, Lauriston Gully, Kangaroo Point, 1889, W A W . 

 Nos. 767 and 160. 



18. Dicranum integerrimum, Broth. Geh., n. sp. 

 Dioicous ; in dense, pale yellow, somewhat shining tufts to 



7 cm. high, for the most part buried in sand. Stem erect, 

 densely leaved, sparingly radiculose. Leaves roughly p itent, 

 not at all subsecuud, smooth at back, deeply canaliculate- 

 concave, from an ovate-lanceolate base subulate, margins 

 erect, connivent above, quite entire or having a few denticles 

 at apex only ; nerve very thin, indistinct at base, excurrent, 

 with smooth back ; cells everywhere elongate, narrowly 

 linear ; the marginal very narrow, hyaline, forming a some- 

 what wide border, the alar numerous, ventricose, fusco- 

 aureate, all quite smooth. The rest unknown. 



Hab.— Jones' Track, Sprent Eiver, West Coast, on s tndy 

 button-grass plains, T. B. Moore, No. 58. (Herb. Sir P. von 

 Mueller, and also W.A.W. No. 1563.) 



This moss," says Mr. Brotherus, "appears to be nearest to 

 J0. angustinervis, Mitt., which is known to me only by the 

 description and figure. Prom that and other kindred species 

 it is separated by the quite entire leaves." 



