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AUSTRALIAN MOSSES— SOME LOCALITY PICTURES 
Rev. W. Walter Watts, 
(Concluded) 
This may be allowed to end our trip. But, to complete my records for 
the district, I must add one or two notes. 
Some parts of the district produce native pine trees ; and, so far, these 
are the only bush trees on which I have found any trace of mosses. The 
species are Tortula vesiculosa , C. M., a species so-named on account of the 
vesiculose character of the green brood-bodies that abound on the nerve of 
the leaf; and Tortula Baileyi , Broth., which produces elongated brood 
bodies, very beautiful to see, at the tip of the stem. These two mosses 
occur on the poplars planted in the town of Young T. vesiculosa most 
plentifully. 
At one spot 12 miles from Young, I collected Bryum tasmanicum, f. seta 
breviore, Broth. From Weedallion Mountain, 30 m. from Young, comes 
Bryum sublaevigatum, Broth., sp. nov. Poly trichum juniperinum , Willd. > 
is not uncommon. At Grenfell, 32 m. away, on the sides of an excavation of 
rock, I collected Dawsonia longiseta, Hamp. ; on the Wedden Mountain, a 
locality which I intend to explore later, Pohlia nutans (Schreb.) Lindb. 
Finally, at KOorawatha, some 25 m. from Young, in a deep valley among 
the mountains, I collected Stereodon cupressiformis (L); Mielichhoferia 
Forsythi , Broth.; Mielichhoferia turgens , Broth., sp. nov.: Grimmia apo- 
carpa; Racopilum convolutaceum , C. M.: and the interesting Pilonotis 
remotif olia, H. f. W. , a moss which has so much the appearance of a Thuid- 
ium that, when first found, it was named Hyf 7 ium (Taman's cella ) scabri- 
folium. Sullivant, who first received the fruit, named it Bartramia exigua, 
and that name is retained by C. M. in his Genera Muscorum. At one time 
H. et W. called it P hilonotis appressa; but the name was subsequently 
abandoned as inappropriate to the female plant. Brotherus, in Bryales, 
gives precedence to Ph. Scabrifolia (H. f. W.). 
Other species, especially of Bottiaceae and Bryaceae, are certain to be 
found in this district; but this paper will give a good general view, I trust, 
of the Moss Flora of this part of N. S. Wales. I may add that for many 
determinations I am indebted to S. Brotherus. 
Aug. 29th, 1905. Young. N. S. W. 
(Concluded) 
THIRD BOTANICAL SYMPOSIUM. 
The third annual meeting of the Botanical Symposium will be held from 
July 2d to 9th, at Mountain Lodge, Little Moose Lake, Old Forge, New 
York. Through the courtesy of the members of the Adirondack League 
Club, the privilege of occupying the Club House for one week is extended to 
the members of the Conference. Tickets should be bought to Fulton Chain 
Station, on the Adirondack Division of the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. Single fare 
from New York City $6.46. Board $2.50 to $3.00 a day. Stages will meet 
