114 



twisted and flexuous, lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat keeled, 

 margin subreeurved, quite entire ; nerve slender, excurrent 

 as a very tine hair-point. Seta long, slender, flexuous ; 

 capsule nodding or pendulous, long, slender, cylindric, 

 narrowed into the slender apophysis ; operculum convex, 

 mamillate. 



" This differs," says Dr. Taylor, " from Br. dbconicum, Br. 

 Schimp., by the more elongated sterile shoots and their 

 narrower leaves, and by the longer capsules, which are by no 

 means obconical, but from a shrunken narrow apophysis are 

 cylindrical." 



Hab. — On the ground, near Eichmond, 1888, and on wet 

 bank, The Nut, Circular Head, 1892, W.A.W., Nos. 44 and 

 1068. 



(Also West Australia and New Zealand.) 



33. Bryum erythrocarpoides, Hampe and C. Mull., Linnssa 

 1853, p. 495. 



Hab. — On wet earth bank, " Gentle Annie," Hobart 

 Waterworks, 1892, W.A.W., No. 1216. 

 (Also Australia, F. v. M.) 



34. Bryum breviramulosum, Hampe, Linnsea 1876, p. 311. 



Hab. — On old log, Millhouse's Falls, Huon-road, 1893, 

 W.A.W., No. 1467. 



(Also Victoria, Sullivan.) 



35. Bryum pyrothecium, Hampe and C. Mull., Linnsea 

 1855, p. 205. 



Hab. — Bower Track, Mount Wellington, 1885, and Bay 

 View Paddock, Bellerive, 1886, A. J. Taylor. On the ground, 

 Fingal, and Guy Fawkes Eivulet, Hobart, 1888; on rocks- 

 near the Springs, Mount Wellington, 1890; and on the 

 ground near Eocky Cape and at South-road Forest, 

 Circular Head, 1892, W.A.W., Nos. 58, 94, 493, 541, 1063, 

 1076, 1078, and 1079. 



(Also Australia.) 



36. Mniadelphus rotundifolius (H./.W.). Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. 1844, p. 551.— Fl. N.Z. ii., p. 122, t. 93, f. 1.— Hook. 

 Hand. N.Z. FL, p. 493. — Syn. — M. obliquo-mucronatus, C. 

 Mull, in litt. 



Dioicous ; small. Stem prostrate, \ — |in. long, sparingly 

 branched ; branches compressed, slender, reddish. Leaves 

 dark green, lax, spreading, crisped when dry, orbicular-ovate, 

 apiculate ; margin thickened, toothed ; nerve reaching half- 

 way ; cells large, lax, hexagonal. Perichaetial bracts margined, 



