Musci Exorici.—8rowniani. 
GYMNOSTOMUM INCLINANS. 
Gymnostomum caule cespitoso subsimplici, foliis ovato- 
oblongis obtusis integerrimis nervosis piliferis, cap- 
sula ovato- oblonga horizontaliter inclinata. (Tas. 
— CLXVIUL 
Leptostomum inclinans. Brown in Linn. Trans. v.10. 
p. 320. 
Has. Rupes et saxa ad latus orientale prope summitatem — 
tis Tabularis, Lat. Austr. 43°, elevatione supra mare 3000 ad 
8,900 ped. Insula Van Diemen. D. Brown. 
Caules densissime cespitosi, subsimplices, inferne tomento denso 
fusco ferrugineo obsiti, superne foliosi. Folia arcte imbricata, 
erecta, flavo-viridia, sub lente punctulata, cwatc-cblene valde 
obtusa, marginibus integerrimis non raro revolutis, nervo va- 
rizontaliter palin os ore snbconcctnce, ntus paresis annu- 
lari, suberecta, alba, margine subdentata instructo. Operci- 
lum conico-hemisphericum. 
pied aoe Oceans 
This borders — closely upon Gy — omum gracile (Lepto- 
stomum Br.) already figured in this w t is however a much 
more robust plane having larger seins, which for nearly their 
whole length are covered with thick, deep-brown, ferruginous 
owny radicles, having at their summit a short thick tuft of leaves, 
and exhibiting i in various parts of their length the terminal tufts 
of former years; so that the plant increases in length by its an- 
notinous shoots, like many of the Bartramie. The fruitstalk 
too is shorter than in G. gracile, the sipuine larger and more 
ovate, and the alee: are more obtuse, with shorter hairs. 
e membrane which constitutes Mr. Brown’s character of 
Leptostomum is here rather om than horizontal, and the edge 
jagged; there is too a faint appearance of longitudinal lines 
like the cohesion of short obtuse and tin drat padi teeth ; 
but as I had only one specimen to examine, I cannot sae wi ith 
that certainty of its structure that I could ak 
Fig. 1, tuft of plants, mat. size. Fig. 2, single plant. Fig. 3,3, 
leaves. Fig. 4, perichetium. Fig. 5 , leaf of ditto. Fig. 6, por- 
tion of a leaf, to show the minute " cellules. Fig. 7, ca apsule. 
Fig. 8, =< Fig. 9, mouth of the met showing the 
annular brane.—magn, 
