116 



Hab. — Eiver Mersey, near Latrobe Waterworks, on trunk 

 of tree, W.A.W., No. 1492. 



(Also Victoria, P.v.M., and Queensland, F. M. Bailey.) 

 Mr. Brotherus says (New Sp. Austral. Mosses iii., p. 67) 

 that having had an opportunity of examining original speci- 

 mens of H. convolutifolium, Hampe, kept in Lindberg's 

 herbarium, he finds it to be a genuine Rhynchostegium,, and 

 the Queensland moss, H. strictiusculum, Broth., to be per- 

 fectly identical with it. 



39. Polytrichum ( Pogonatum) australasicum, Hampe and C. 

 Miill., Linnsaa, 1853, p. 500. 



Very like P. tortile, Swartz. Dioicous. Leaves from a sub- 

 vaginant base short, pellucid, lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, 

 somewhat plane, towards the apex spinulose- serrulate, 

 spinulose at back, areolation sublax ; the comal leaves as the 

 others ; all when dry intensely green ; nerve wide, and 

 covered with numerous lamellae almost to the apex of leaf. 

 Capsule cylindric-oblong, subcernuous, fuscous, everywhere 

 smooth ; operculum coDic-apiculate, obtuse, short. 



" The Australasian plant seems to be quite distinct from 

 Swartz's P. tortile of the West Indies, being distinguished by 

 its more obtuse leaves, its comal leaves being of the same 

 form as the others, and particularly by its smooth cylindric 

 capsule."— T. W. Naylor Beckett in Trans. N.Z., 1893, 

 p. "285. 



Hab. — On shady earth banks, St. Crispin's Track, Mount 

 Wellington, 1888, and Castra-road, Leven, 1892, W.A.W., 

 Nos. 843 and 1057. 



(Also found in Australia and New .Zealand). 



40. Sphagnum, antarcticum, Mitt., Journ. Linn. Soc. IV. 

 p. 100. 



Hab. — On wet roadside bank, Longley, Huon-road, 1889 

 and 1892, and on Snalse Plains, Mt. Wellington, 1894, 

 W.A.W., Nos. 202, 1142, and 1617.— At Long Bay, 

 Channel, 1890, A. J. Taylor (Herb. W.A.W., No. 1376). 



MOSSES PREVIOUSLY RECORDED, BUT WANTING DESCRIPTION. 



Isopterygium acuminatum, Bosw., Journal of Botany, April, 

 1892. (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1893, p. 204, name only.) 



In loose, low, soft tufts, bright green and lutescent-green. 

 Leaves distichously compressed, shining, ovate-lanceolate, 

 elongate, piliform, acuminate, truncate at base, margins 

 quite entire; nerve very short, scarcely apparent; cells 

 narrow elongate, the basal dilated, sub-quadrate, yellow. 

 Capsule oblong, horizontally inclined. 



