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Hab.: Common both South and North, plentiful about Maroochie. , 
4. A.A. Pattipa, Bail. Trunk 6 to 8 ft. high, rather slender, th 
upper portion retaining the bases of the old stipes. Fronds 0) 
n t 
10 ft. long or probably more, including the stipes, which often measure - 
These are slightly muricate, very pale-coloured, nearly white 
and sealy only at the immediate base, direction erecto-patent; pinnules 
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Hab.: Johnstone River. Trees growing in bush-house, Bowen Park. 
Order MUSCI. 
ARCHIDIUM, Bridel. 
Flowers monecious. an ypogynous. Capsule sessile within an 
inperfect vaginule, globose, when ripe formed of but a single layer of 
cells, without sporangium (operculum). Spores arising from a single 
primordial cellule, few, very large, irregularly polyhedral. Calyptra 
a. very thin, irregularly lacerate, adhering in fragments to the 
‘ : es 
A, brisbanicum, Broth. (n. sp. 
ab.: On swampy land near Brisbane, . Zryon. 
HOLOMITRIUM, Bridel. 
H. corticola, Broth. (n. sp.) 
Hab. : Near Brisbane. 
CERATODON, Bridel. : 
_ 4, ,, Short tufted dioecious mosses, growing on earth, burnt wood, &e. 
Foliage of Trichostomum. Yruit-stalk terminal, very slender. Capsule 
‘ib-erect, narrow-oblong, curved, thick-walled, furrowed, angular when 
‘Y- Teeth 16, lanceolate, split nearly to the base, joints prominent, 
distant in the upper part, close below, conniving when moist, spiral y 
rial When dry. Annulus double, revolute. Operculum conical, 
ked, Calyptra cucullate.—Hask., New Zeal. Flora, 422. 
ack. Margins recurved, some- 
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