113 



rubella varies considerably in size and density, but is very 

 uniform in the fruit, and always more or less red in the 

 lower leaves. — Braithwaite's British Moss Flora, Vol. I, p. 

 260. 



Bab. — On a dead log, Lauriston Gully, Kangaroo Point, 

 1891, and on rocks, Hobart Eivulet, 1892, and New Town 

 Rivulet, 1893, W.A.W., Nos. 711, 1220, 1485. 



A European moss, not before recorded for Australasia. 



28. Entosthodon cuspidatus (TL/iW.).— PL N.Z. ii. 91, t. 

 86, f. 3. 



Stems iin. high. Leaves spreading, nearly flat, ovate, 

 acuminate, quite entire, nerve far excurrent. Seta pale, lin. 

 long. Capsule erect, pyriform, small, quite symmetrical; 

 annulus ; inner peristome imperfect ; operculum nearly 

 flat.— Hook. Handbook N. Z. Fl., p. 450 (Funaria). 



Hab.— .On the ground, Carlton, 1889, W.A.W., No. 428. 



(Also New Zealand, Bay of Islands, J. D. Hooker.) 



29. Philonotis fertilis, Mitten, Kew Journ. Bot. viii., p. 260. 

 Hab.— Ben Lomond, 1886, B. J. Be Bomford. (Herbs. 



Bastow and Taylor ; W.A.W., No. 1304.) 



30. Bartramia strictifolia, Tayl. 



Stems an inch high, laxly tufted, erect, subsimple, at the 

 base clothed with a dark-brown down, in the middle reddish- 

 brown, at the tops glaucescent-green. Leaves imbricate, 

 strict, subulate-setaceous, subserrulate, margin reflexed, the 

 lower appressed, straight, the upper recurved. Seta slender, 

 flexuous, above an inch long. Capsule erect, from a narrow 

 base subglobose, striate, when young turbinate, inclined to 

 one side ; operculum convex, obtusely mamillate ; inner 

 peristome much shorter than the outer. — Land. Journ. 

 Bot. 1846, p. 54, 



Hab. — On the ground, Bay View Paddock, Bellerive, 1889, 

 W.A.W., No. 967 (var. minor). 



31. Brachymenium preisaianum, Hampe, Icones, p. 25. 

 Hab. — On face of stone wall, Garden Crescent Eeservoir, 



Hobart, 1890, WA.W., No. 502. 

 (Also West Australia, Preiss, 

 P.V.M.) 



Drummond ; and Victoria, 



32. Bryum creberrimum, Tayl. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1846, p. 54. 

 —PI. N. Z. ii. 84.— Hook. Hand. N.Z. PI. p. 442. 



Dioicous ; stems aggregate, reddish, erect, with long 

 shoots. Leaves olive-green, lax, suberect, when dry erect, 



