BRYOLOGICAL NOTES 5 
in some parts of these countries, certainly differs a little from the 
usual examples of the fertile South American plant. The ch 
teristics of this New Zealand and Tasmanian ag well seen in 
specimens sent to me by the Rev. W. W. Wat 5, Wide are labelled 
** Streptopogon mnioides Wils.=S. crispata ae, Hobart Rivulet, 
Tasmania ”’; in specimens in the Kew Herbarium from North-west 
Oo 
Pi 
(legt. W. Bell). All these specimens ois besides the more robust 
habit, slightly broader leaves, which have a tendency to be less 
acuminate at the apex. That these feistared are merely those of a 
f i t 
become ore -patent and narrower, and Si more acuminate at the 
apex. Furt ‘gear respect to the reabuat habit, the specimens of 
“8. paras” nt by Dusén to Miiller (referred to above) are 
b f 
as broa 
A r’s specimens (nr. 654) in the Kew 
Herbarium, the leaves on different stems in the same tuft vary = 
— ly. Someare oblong- lanceolate nd 
measure es 1 mm. ; others, usually near the base of the B finle are 
broadly liter, 3°5 X 1mm., and are acute, not subacuminate, at the 
n the lowermost stem-leaves, it may be noted here, the 
Maite sneies below the apex, as is often the case with leaves in this 
osition. 
J Ge other hand, some of Colenso’s New Zealand specimens, 
oe sterile, have the slender habit and taller stems, with 
rrower more erect leaves, of the — ‘ual form of S. mnioides 
in South America. In some of these stems also, it is to be noted, 
rower, erecto-patent, and eae at the 
ill confining ourselves to the caidesael of the sterile plant 
in Australasia, we find that this has eos” lately a fresh name, 
having been Sabt chal in 1897 as a new ies ‘4 "Miller under 
the ae foe bula (Syntrichia) Withelnii, in : Hedwigia, xxxvi. p. 104. 
No full description of this moss has appeared, Miller (7. c.) merely 
alecdae ae the plant as follows :—“ Extra Barb. crispatam Aus- 
tralia habet speciem alteram multo robustiorem auream, que 
Victoriam et Tasmaniam habitat, nempe Barbulam Withelmii 2. sp., 
uam Cl. Wilhelmi ad trunco s arborum Victorie 1867 et Cl. Wey- 
