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KRYOLOGICAL NOTES. 



BRYOLOGICAL NOTES ; 



By C. J. WILD. 



I. 



Many descriptions of Queensland mosses occur in publications 

 difficult of access; I intend, therefore, from time to time, to trans- 

 late where necessary and bring before the Society, such of these 

 descriptions as come to hand. On the present occasion I restrict my 

 attention to three, characterised by V. F. Brotherus in Botanisches 

 Centralblatt, No. 42, viz., Splachnobryum Biileyi, sp. nor., Meteo- 

 rium (Papillaria) Baileyi. sp. nov., and Isopierygium robustum 

 sp. nov. They were originally reported (but without descriptions) 

 as occurring in Queensland, vid, 2nd Sup. Synopsis Queensland 

 Flora. 



Splachnobryum Baileyi, Brotherus. — Dioecious ; loosely tufted, 

 tufts somewhat extensive, bright green, reddish brown below r 

 sparingly radiculose ; stem 6 m.m. high, erect, thick, stiff, 

 red, simple, leafy from base ; leaves firm, chlorophyllose, 

 lower remote, upper somewhat denser, erecto- patent, when dry 

 laxly adpressed and somewhat flexuose, concave, 9 — 1*1 m.m. 

 long, lower ligulate-oblong, shorter, margin plane, the others 

 oblong, with both margins or on one side strongly revolute, apex 

 only plane, apex in all rotund, the prominent cells causing it to 

 appear minutely crenulate ; nerve somewhat thick extending almost 

 to the apex, areolation pellucid, very lax, smooth, cells large, basal 

 elongate, gradually shorter towards apex, perichastial very similar to- 

 stem leaves, vaginula narrower above, 0*7 m.m. high, green, apex 

 fuscous ; pisillida few without paraphyses ; seta 5 m.m. high, erect, 

 smooth, apex pale, smooth, when dry strongly twisted to the right ; 

 capsule sub-cylindric, not constricted above, base unsymmetrical and 

 attenuate, erect, smooth, and rather shining when dry, pale, mouth 

 reddish, 1*3 m.m. long, 0'4 m.m. thick ; annulus none : peristome 

 very short, teeth in pairs, reddish, strongly papillose, very narrow, 

 base broader, acute, exceeding the orifice by 0*24 m.m. spores 0*021 



