98 



Leaves acuminate. 



1. R. Australe, Hook. /. and Wils. Dioicous. Stems 

 creeping, tomentose with radicles, sub-pinnately 

 branched. Leaves crisped when dry, lateral distichous, 

 spreading, oblong-ovate ; long pellucid excurrent 

 nerve, apex serrulate. Fruitstalk stout. Capsule 

 oblong, decurved, strumose, cernuous, sulcate. Lid 

 shortly beaked. Calyptra hairy, inflated at the base. 

 B. strumiferum, C. Muell. Johnny's Creek, Cheshunt. 



Leaves obtuse. 



2. R. cristatum, Hook. /. and Wils. Monoicous. Stems 

 creeping. Leaves lateral distichous, spreading, crisped 

 when dry, ovate-oblong, obtuse, serrulate at the apex, 

 nerve excurrent in a point; dorsal much smaller, 

 ovate-cordate, acuminate. Fruitstalk slender ; capsule 

 curved, grooved. Lid with short beak. Calyptra 

 dimidiate, subulate, scarcely pilose. Teeth scabrid at 

 the back. B. tomentostim, C. Muell. Huon River, on 

 the ground ; Kangaroo Bottom ; St. Patrick's Eiver. 



66. HOOKEEIA, Sib J. E. Smith, founder of the Linnsean 

 Society, Loudon. 



Named in honour of Sir William Jackson Hooker. Key 

 No. 81. On fallen trees and banks by streams. 



A. Sauloma, Hook /. and Wils. Leaves sub-secund, not margined ; 

 cells large, lax. Outer teeth remotely barred at the back ; inner keeled^ 

 without interposed cilia. Calyptra naked, inflexed at the base, not 

 fimbriate. 



1. H. tenella, Hook. /. and Wils. Dioicous. Stems 



short, sparingly branched. Leaves crowded, imbricate, 

 sub-erect, secund, ovate-oblong, acute, margin re- 

 curved, nerve 0, cells lax, pellucid, when dry plicato- 

 striate. Capsule sub-cernuous, small, ovoid. Lid 

 beaked. Calyptra naked, mitriform. Near Springs, 

 Mt. Wellington. 



B. MNlADELrHUS, C. Muell. Calyptra conico-mitriform, base fimbriated. 

 Inner peristome without cilia. Leaves margined or not, nerved or not. 



* Leaves with thickened margins. 



Leaves serrulate. 



2. H. apiculata, Hook. /. and Wils. Dioicous. Leaves 



orbicular, apiculate, margin thickened, cells large, 

 nerve 0. Fruitstalk rough, capsule cernuous, calyptra 

 hairy, fimbriate at the base. Circular Head. 



