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BRYOLOGICAL NOTES 



Originally recorded, in 2nd Sup. Syn. Queensland Flora, with- 

 out description. 



Isopterygiam robustum, Br other us. — Dioecious, prostrate, robus^ 

 bright green, very shining ; stem elongated, branches scattered» 

 °omplanate, elongated, flexuose, obture, simple or with short 

 branchlets, branches and branchlets ending in a gemmate not 

 cuspidate apex ; leaves densely crowded, distichous-compressed 

 patent, hardly subsecund, from an ovate-lanceolate unsymmetrical 

 base, shortly acuminate, margins plane, minutely serrulate, two 

 nerved, short but distinct, areolation smooth, cells narrow, elongated, 

 shorter and laxer at base and apex. Other parts of plant not 

 present. 



Brisbane River — F. M. Bailey. — It differs from J. Teysmanni 

 (Lac), its nearest ally in the much more robust habit, and in the 

 leaves being less distinctly serrate, also in the more prominent nerve 

 V. F. Brotherus, in Botinisches Centralblatt, No. 42. 



The above is not an uncommon moss ; it occurs on rocks at 

 Helidon, Kedron Brook, Pimpama, &c. 



II. 



Through Mr. F. V. Baiiey's kindness in communicating to 

 me the determinations of a European specialist, who has had 

 examples of the different mosses, mentioned, submitted to him' 

 I am enabled to report the following additional species to the flora 

 of the colony : — 



Weissia pimpamce C. Muell. Mss. Sp. Nov. — Pimpama, South 



Queensland. — C. J. Wild. 

 Hyophila augusti folia, C. Muell. Mss. Sp. Nov. — Toowoomba, 



South Queensland. — C. J. Wild. 

 Macromitrium mucronatulum, CM. Mss. Sp. Nov. — Burpengary, 



South Queensland.— C. J. Wild. 



MaCromitiium pusillum, Mitt. — Leaves when dry spirally twisted ; 

 when moist spreading ; linear lanceolate, apex obtuse, apiculate ; 

 nerved nearly to apex, keeled, margin plain ; pericluetial leaves 



