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toothed. Seta slender, -Jin. long, smooth. Capsule hori- 

 zontal, narrow-oblong, pale ; operculum with a slender straight 

 beak, nearly as long as the capsule. Teeth of peristome 

 yellow, with two rather distant subcylindrical dorsal ridges, 

 forming the external lamina of the tooth ; inner peristome 

 without cilia; processes carinate, perforated. Calyptra 

 fimbriate at the base, subpilose at apex. 



"Closely allied to M. dicksoni, Hook., but differs in the 

 smaller, roundish, denticulate leaves, more shortly apiculate. 

 From M. crispu/a, K.f.W., which it also much resembles, it 

 is distinguished by the rounder, much smaller, and denticulate 

 leaves, with larger and more uniform areolae." — Hooker. 



jjal, — On logs, Sassafras Gully and Bower Creek, Mt. 

 Wellington, 1888; and on wet wood and stones, Hobart 

 Rivulet, 1893, W.A.W., Nos. 373, 376, 1585, 1586. On logs, 

 Sophia Point and Gordon River, Macquarie Harbour, 1893, 

 T. B. Moore, Nos. 27 and 53. 



37. Meteorium (Pilotrichelld) billardieri, Hampe, Linnsea, 

 1859-60, p. 637 (Neckera). 



Stems turgid, elongate, pendulous, irregularly branched ; 

 branches short, about an inch, turgid, somewhat obtuse. 

 Leaves turgidly imbricate, from a cordate base, cochleariform 

 (inflexed at base and apex), quite entire; nerves two, short, 

 distant. Periohaetial bracts few, lanceolate, involute. Seta 

 short, thick. Capsule short, ovate ; operculum conic, obtuse ; 

 teeth of peristome red. "Differs from Neckera molle," says 

 Hampe, " in the more robust habit, the double-nerved leaves, 

 and obtuse operculum." 



Mr. T. W. Naylor Beckett, of Christchurch, says :— " The 

 leaves are often nerveless, as in Pilotrichella molle, and I was 

 unable to detect any nerve in the leaves of the specimen in 

 Herb. Helms identified by Dr. Muller. The very robust 

 habit, the turgid foliage, and the more obtuse and blunter 

 ramuli form the most distinctive characters." — Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst. 1893, p. 285. 



Hab.—Oa trees, Macquarie Harbour, 1893, T. B. Moore, 

 No. 9. Columba Falls, South George River, 1894, W.A.W., 

 No. 1607. 



(Also found in Victoria and New Zealand.) 



( Rhynchostegium) 

 641. 



convolutifolium, Hampe, 



38. Hypnum 

 Linnsea 1859, p. 



Syn. — Amblystegium convolutifolium (Hampe), Mitt. Austral. 

 mosses, p. 39. Rhynchostegium strictiusculum, Broth., iu Bailey 

 Cont. Queensland Fl. iv., p. 21 (name only). 



