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operculum subulate-acuminate ; peristome with external teeth con- 
tracted, narrow, very rarely equal to the internal ones; internal ones 
with narrow, carinate-conyex processes rising from a short membrane 
or sessile ; calyptra fimbriate at the base, often with scattered 
branchlets below. 
L. australe, Broth. (n. sp.), Paper No. 1, New Austr. Mosses, p- 
17. Diccious; pallid green, silky, complanate ; stems reaching 3 cm. 
i 3m l 
ry a 
_ Inargins flat or at the base slightly revolute, not limbate, entire ; nerves 
2, very short, orange, almost obsolete or none; cellules elongate, very 
harrow, lower ones short and broad, golden, in the margins fairly 
numerous, oval, golden ; perichatial bracts man , small, acuminate, 
entire; sete to 1 ecm. in length, erect, rather straight, very slender, 
red, very smooth; thece oblong-cylindrical, sub-erect, red, 2 mm. 
long, mouth not at all constricted. Other parts unknown. 
ab. : Harvey’s Creek, Russell River, on branches, Bellenden-Ker Expedition. 
CRYPHAA, Bridel. 
Cc. flexinervis, Broth. (n. sp.) 
ab.: Near Brisbane, Field Naturalists, 
C. brevidens, C.1r. 
Hab. : Southern border of Queensland, J. F. Shirley. 
METEORIUM, Bridel. 
= flexicaule, Layt. in Hook. Fl. N. Zeal. (AL squamatum, C.M.) 
Stems pendulous, flexuous, very slender indeed, 4 to n. long. 
Leaves dull-yellow or brownish, loosely imbricate, ovate-cordate or 
subspathulate, shortly acuminate, concave, not striated, margin quite 
middr except at the obscurely toothed base ; nerve produced to the 
lddie, 
Hab. : Brisbane scrubs, Field Naturalists. 
POROTRICHUM, Bridel. 
Tehes distichous, irregularly pinnate. Leayes distichous, imbricate, 
swine, eymbiform, concave, subenervate, shortly oyate-lanceolate, 
Apex subcucullate, shortly recurvo-acuminate, margin erect, entire ; 
Cells of the borders small, angulate-rotundate, brownish, those of the 
central area elliptical, with small oval ones intermixed, pellucid, in other 
.-~ 4pex, entire; basilar cells lax, subhexagonal, pellucid, in the 
pices of the bracts linear, elsewhere similar to those of the : 
Seta ascendi 
