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2. Tribal Arrangement — 



At page 69, Sup. ii., Aulacopilum is placed under Splachnea?, 

 its true place being amongst Hypneae, preceding tlie genus 

 Fabronia. The description of this genus which is omitted, is as 

 follows : — 



Minute, creeping mosses, sparingly branched, inonoicous. Leaves 

 distichous, glaucous ; cells roundish ovate. Fruitstalk short, stout, 

 lateral. Capsule erect, ovate, truncate at the mouth, exannulate ; 

 teeth none. Operculum conical, beaked. Calyptra large, including 

 the capsule, and embracing the fruitstalk below it, grooved, split at 

 the side. 



Hypopterygiea, p. GO, Sup. ii., is placed between Orthotrichea: 

 and Splachnea 1 . It lias no affinity with either : it should have 

 followed the genus Txhizogonium. 



Splachnobryum. p. 70, Sup. ii., is placed under Neckereae. Its 

 true position is in Tortulere, although the areolation of the leaves 

 resembles those of Splachnea?. The structure of the peristome and 

 the calyptra entirely accords with Tortula, also the place of growth. 

 Annexed is the description of this genus, which is omitted Jrorn the 

 ii. Sup. to the Syn. Queensland Flora : — 



Splachnobryum, C. Mueller. — Calyptra dimidiate, enclosing 

 the whole of the tbeca, and embracing spirally the upper part of the 

 seta, cleft at the side, smooth, fugacious. Peristome simple, arising 

 below the orifice of the capsule, teeth 1G, very narrow, linear, 

 lanceolate, acicular, with the articulations remote. Columella 

 immersed. Dioicous, male flower terminal, gemmacous, without 

 paraphyses. 1 lants small, slender, with distant spathulate leaves. 

 Mostly natives of equatorial America and India. — London Journ. 

 Botany, July, 1872. R.B. 



The generic description of Rhyncostegium at p, 73, Sup ii., is 

 placed under Tribe Skitophyllea?, whilst it truly ranks as a 

 Hypnum. 

 o. Habitat — 



Neckera pennata, Holler, p. G8, Sup, i , should be struck out. 

 it being a strictly European moss. Its occurrence has nut yet been 

 reported in Australia. 



