ON THE OCCUERENCE OF A NEW DENDROOEROS 
IN QUEENSLAND. 
BY 
C. J. Wild, F.L.S. 
(Read on 6th July, 1893). 
Dendroceros is the name applied to one of the most interest- 
ing genera of Hepaticie or Scale Mosses. The species hitherto 
met with have a somewhat remarkable range of occurrence, 
having been recorded from the great South American Cordillera, 
the island of St. Vincent and from Queensland ; in fact, 
that now under consideration more nearly approaches 
an Andean fonn— D. foliatus, Spruce, than any other. These 
Scale Mosses seem only to have been found towards the 
summits of mountains, and unlike their allies the different 
species of Anthoeeros, Lunularia, Marchantia, &c., are strictly 
ai'boreal, growing upon the trunks of trees, usually towards their 
bases, Dendi-oceros muelleri and the present species are the sole 
Australian representatives of the genus, and the former of these 
has been collected only upon Mt. Bellenden-Ker where it was 
procured by Messrs. Froggatt and Sayer in 1886. As s 
Bendroceros subtropicus, mild, this has been found upon Mt. 
Tambourine and hitherto nowhere else. The following is a 
technical description of it : — 
Dendroceros subtropicus, sp, noiy Fronds deep green, 
<mspitose-procumbent, 15 lines, ascending, pinnate y ramo 
Costa weU-defined, narrow, of several layers of cells, pagina 
broad, deeply cleft into broadly Rnear lobes, imbricate and sinuate- 
crispate. Cells roundish hexagonal chlorophyllose, wa » nc 
Moncecious; female flower situate at the base of the furcations 
surrounded by large crispate lobes. Capsule bivalyed ^ 
lines long ; involucre about half the length, inear, cy in ^ , 
green, columella filiform persistent. Spores small, round reen, 
granulate •05mm. Elaters smooth flat and twisted in a loose 
spiral 'OX 007mm. 
