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BRYOLOGICAL NOTES, BY C. J. WILD. 



BRYOLOGIC AL NOTES; 



By C. J. WILD. 



The following mosses were recorded (but without descriptions) by 

 F. M. Bailey, in the Synopsis of Queensland Flora and 1st Sup. 



Octoblepharum albidum {Linn. Sp. PL 1583 — Bryum). 



Stem short. Leaves arising from a broad unequal base, 

 shortly ovate, erect, obtuse, somewhat plane, patent, sometimes 

 recurred, terminated by a short small apiculus, nerve dilated, 

 beyond the oval part forming the whole leaf, lamina of lax pellucid 

 rhomboid cells, with narrow ill-defined cell-walls ; pericha3tial leaves 

 smaller, of similar form. Seta short, capsule orange- coloured, 

 operculum subulate, teeth of peristome short, weak, distant, often 

 perforate. 



Stem 3-12 lines high. Leaves 3 lines long, white with irides- 

 cent cells. Peduncle 3 lines long. W. Mitten. Musci Austro- 

 Americana, London, 1869, 109. 



Ilab. — On orchids, tiopical Queensland (F. M. Bailey) John- 

 stone River ; Mount Perry (J. Keys). 



Syrrhopodon fimrriatus [Mitt.) 



Compactly tufted, lower part of stem with purplish radicles. 

 Leaves erecto-patent incurved, somewhat tereiely imbricated, margin 

 with a narrow pellucid border, above incurved, apex with a few 

 small teeth, cells hyaline, elongated in the lower end of leaf, in the 

 upper half round, minute, pale green, papillose. Capsule on a red 

 seta ^in. long, oval, plicate, shining, red ; operculum of equal 

 length, subulate ; calyptra subplicate descending below tha capsule 

 and embracing the seta, split on one side, teeth of the peristome 

 short. 



