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22. LEPTANGIUM, Montague. 



Slender capsule. Minute, tufted, growing in vegetable 

 soil. Succulent subterraneous stem and short branches. 

 Key, No. 11. 



1. L repens, Mitten. Hedwigia in Fl. Tasm. Ancectangium 



in Muse. Exot. Stems very minute, -g-iin. high. 

 Leaves on the barren stems spreading, nearly 

 orbicular ; on the fertile, larger, whitish, imbricating, 

 ovate, narrowed into a slender acuminate point, quite 

 entire. Capsule immersed, mouth wide, closed by a 

 horizontal membrane ; spores large. Calyptra conical, 

 small. Key, No. 11. North side of Cataract, 

 Launceston. 



2. L. tumidum, Mitten. Leaves oblong-oval, cochleari- 



form-concave, margin recurved, acute or short narrow 

 apiculate, no nerve. The fruit being absent, the genus 

 is doubtful. Mitteu Austr. Catalogue. 



23. GRIMMIA, Eheh. 

 Named in honour of Grimm, a German botanist. On rocks. 



A. SCHISTIDIUM. Capsule on very short fruitstalk, hidden among the 



leaves. 



1. G. apocarpa, Hedwg. Nearly black, f to 3in. long. 



Leaves ovatedanceolate, apiculate or obtuse, margin 

 reflexed, nerve vanishing below hyaline tip. Capsule 

 elliptic, immersed, without ring. Key, No. 19. Foot 

 of Mount Nelson. 



B. Grimmia. Capsule on a short curved fruitstalk. 



2. G. puluinata, Smith. Hoary tufts ; leaves oblong- 



lanceolate, keeled above, terminated abruptly by a 

 white hair, margin entire, recurved, nerve varnishing. 

 Capsule turned downwards, ovoid, furrowed. Double 

 ring, lid beaked, calyptra mitriform. Var. IS. 

 Africana, lower, capsule shorter, lid conic, very short 

 maminilate. On trap rock. 



-3. G. tricophylla, Gb.eville. Stems short, forming loose 

 tufts. Leaves yellow green, linear-lanceolate, nar- 

 rowed into a white diaphanous hair point, 

 flexuous, crisped when dry, nerve vanishing ; capsule 

 pendulous, ovoid, striated, angular when dry, annulus 

 broad, teeth two-fid, lid conical, beaked. Mt. Wel- 

 lington, on rocks. 



