TEANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
VOL. IV. 
SOME NEW SOUTH AFEICAN MOSSES. 
By Horace A. Wagee, A. E.G. Sc. (Professor of Botany and Zoology 
at the Transvaal University College, Pretoria). 
(Plates I. II.) 
These new mosses have been collected amongst others by me from 
time to time, and the number is now sufficiently large to justify me in giving 
descriptions and illustrations of them. I am greatly indebted to H. N. 
Dixon, Esq., C. Wright, Esq., of Kew, and Professor Brotherus, of 
Finland, for their kindness in helping me with the identification and 
naming of the species described. I hope to bring out very soon a 
preliminary list of all the mosses already recorded from South Africa. 
FissiDENS Wageki, Dixon. (Plate I. A.) 
Caespitosus, non magnus, nullis ramis. Caulis circa 1 mm. longus 
cum 5-7 paribus foliorum. Folia superiora longiora et maiora, inferiora 
sensim breviora et minora, vel lanceolata vel subspathulata sine limbo, 
apice acuto, paululum asymmetrica, sine nervo sed celluhs ab inferiore 
parte nonnunquam ad centrum convergentibus ; cellulis plus minusve 
regularibus 100-120 mu. longis, 17-20 mu. latis acutis chlorophyllosis, 
usque ad marginem paribus, margine integerrimo. Lamina secundaria 
JMNI2 1914 
