112 



nerves ; cells elongate, very narrow, somewhat flexuous, the 

 lowest basal shortened, aureate, the alar numerous, minute, 

 very incrassate, all quite smooth. The rest unknown. 



Hab. — On wood, The Den, Mount Nelson, 1890, male plant, 

 W.A.W., No. 506, 



"A very distinct species ; related to St. chrysogaster (C. 

 Miill.), but easily distinguished by the form of the leaves." 



28. Fissidens sarcophyllns, Burch. Broth., n. sp. 



Hab. — On face of rock, on track below the Springs, Mt. 

 Wellington, 1891, W.A.W., No. 772. 



NEW VARIETIES. 



1. OrtJwtrichum lateciliatum, Vent., var. apiculatum, Vent., 

 n. var. 



Hab.— On rock, Hobart Rivulet, 1892, W.A.W., No. 1548. 



2. Ulota latea, Mitt., var. glaucescens, Vent., n.v. 



Hab.— On wood, McRobie's Gully, Hobart, 1892, W.A.W., 

 No. 1532. 



MOSSES NEW TO TASMANIA.* 



26. Ditrichum flavipes,G. Miill. 



Hab. — On earth banks, Oradoc-road, Huon, and Forestier's 

 Peninsula, 1889, W.A.W., Nos. 156, 162, 179, 258. 



27. Barbula rubella (Hoffm.), Mitt. 



Paroicous and synoicous ; caespitose, deep green above* 

 ferruginous red below, slender, branched. Leaves curled 

 when dry, patent and recurved when moist, the lower lanceo- 

 late, upper suddenly larger, from an erect concave base, 

 lineal-lanceolate, acuminate, carinate, minutely papillose 

 on both sides, the margin recurved ; nerve terete, vanishing 

 below or in the apex ; cells at base pellucid, rectangular, 

 above small quadrate and chlorophyllose. Perichaetial bracts 

 longly sheathing, thin. Capsule erect on a long reddish 

 seta, cylindraceous, rarely oblong or oval, leptoderrnous, pale 

 brownish-green, finally reddish ; annulus of two rows of 

 large cells, very fragile; lid conic, with a short straight or 

 slightly oblique beak; peristome on a short basal membrane, 

 pale red, soft, of 16 flat linear teeth, rarely cleft or perforated, 

 the articulations nodose and papillose. Antheridia usually 

 naked in the axils of the perichaetial bracts. Barbula 



* That is, not recorded in Fl. Tasm., in Mitten's list of 1859 (Jnl. Linn. Soc. iv.), 

 inMitten's AustralianOatalogue 1882, or in Bastow's Tasmanian mosses 1886. 



