25 
osses, p. 55. Dicecious ; barely cespitose, very small, green; stems 
i ba with lon 
wide, wi 
indistinctly serrulate, limbate, border narrow, lutescent of cells in 2-3 
series, nerve shining, lutescent, at the base rufescent, with apex shortly 
cuspidate, reflexed, s ightly excurrent ; basilar cellules oblong, 
sparingly chlorophyllose, upper ones oblong-hexagonal, in the middle 
of the leaf -06 x ‘017 mm., copiously chlorophyllose ; perichetial 
bracts much smaller, lanceolate, cuspidate, with the excurrent nerve, 
margins revolute, above serrulate, indistinctly limbate ; archegonia 
numerous, enclosing filiform paraphyses. Other parts unknown. 
ab.: Helidon, on the bark of trees, C. J. Wild. 
PLAGIOBRYUM, Lindl. 
P. Wildii, Broth. Paper No. 1, New. Austr. Mosses, p. 18. 
Diecious ; compactly cxespitose, in very short tufts, not shining, rigid, 
when young with pallid green apex, finally olivaceous, eat densely fusco- 
radiculose ; stems very short, generally 2°5 mm. high; lower parts 
leafless, summit foliose, very variable, thick, not clavate, erect, straight, 
obtuse, densely foliose, very short or to 6 mm. high; leaves when 
dry appressed, when moist erect, carinate-concave, oblong, acute, 
16-18 mm. ong x ‘8-°85 mm. wide, not decurrent, entire, with margin 
Tevolute, faintly limbate: nerve purple, thick at the base, more 
slender above, and finally vanishing below the apex, very laxly netted, 
cater cells purpurascent, elongate, broad,. upper cells rhomboid, 
ar. . eis 
entire ; setze igh, thin, erect, flexuose, pale-red, slightly 
hining, very ; ce inclinate, subgibbose-pyriform, with 
longish neck, theca and neck being 4 mm. long, of delicate texture, 
pallid, when d ining, rugulose, not constricted below the mouth, 
ring sim ‘06 mm. thick; peristome double; 
m. thick ; 1 
exostome of lanceolate teeth, rather obtuse, densely trabeculate, base 
striate, golden, above yellow, not papillate ; endostome perfectly free, 
. ar corona 0°2 mm. high, lightl fenged 
laa length or slig ry 
Perforate, wide, with teeth of equal length O17 eit pallid, 
hautely operculum 
Unkn 
Hab.: Highfields, ©. 7, Wild. 
wi) small, red, 
nd apiculate, straight, very acute. Calyptra and male plant 
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