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Nerve reddish. 



4t. B. mfescens, Hook. /. and Wils. Closely allied to 

 preceding species, stems more slender. Leaves spath- 

 ulate, softer, reddish areolation at the base, margin 

 scarcely recurved ; nerve reddish. Capsule clavate, 

 arcuate, slightly pendulous, purple mouth. Var. B, 

 mammilatum, long excurrent nerve, capsule shorter. 

 Var. 7, brevifolius, leaves shorter, concave ; capsule 

 shorter. About Hobart, and near Risdon. 



B. Uppeb leaves not larger or spreading. Distinctly serrulate. 

 Leaves small, oblong-ovate, not crisped. 



5. B. obconicum, Hoensch. Stems with lateral shoots ; 



leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, scarcely twisted when 

 dry, serrulate at the apex, slightly keeled. Nerve 

 excurrent, cuspidate ; capsule subpendulous, clavate, 

 with a long neck ; lid convex, mammilate. Circular 

 Head. 



Leaves small, oblong-ovate, crisped when dry. 



6. B. Iceuigatum, Hook. f. and Wils. Stems § to 2in. 



long, tomentose. Leaves pale yellow green, subser- 

 rulate towards apex, very concave, coriaceous, nerve 

 solid. Capsule ovate-oblong, pendulous, lid obtuse 

 conical. On wet rocks. 



Leaves lanceolate. 



7. B. nutans, Scheeb. Stems very short, upper leaves 



long, lanceolate, apices serrate ; lower, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, entire, capsule drooping or pendulous, oblong- 

 pyriform. Lid large, convex, papillose. Antheridia in 

 pairs in axes of perichffitial leaves. Western Moun- 

 tains, Mt. Wellington. 

 . UprER leaves not large and sprrading, entire, or vert obscurely 



SERRULATE. 



Leaves whitish, silvery. 



8. B. argentium, Linn. Stems very short. Leaves silvery 



or glaucous, imbricated, broadly ovate, apiculate, 

 concave, quite entire, nerve vanishing below the 

 middle, cells lax. Capsule pendulous, ovoid, red. 

 Lid mammilate. Var. niveum ; young shoots obtuse, 

 white leaves. Surrey Hills. 

 Leaves obtuse. 



9. B. blandum, Hook. /. and Wils. 

 flaccid. Upper leaves pale yellow 



Stems tufted 

 green, shining, 



lower reddish, loosely imbricate, oblong, obtuse, quite 

 entire, concave. Nerve slender, not quite continuous, 

 reddish, cells lax. Capsule clavate pyriform, cer- 

 nuous. Var. B. luridum. 



