Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania (Volume 1864-1866) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...neck, sulcate when dry; peristome double; lid convex, short beak. Var. Stems slender, leaves crisped. Formosa (Barren specimens only, with pseudopodia). 40. BAETEAMIA, Hedwg. Named in honour of John Bartram, an American botanist. The English name is apple moss, common in Alpine and sub-Alpine localities. Key, No. 45. A. Bartbamidula. Capsule gymnostomous. 1. B. pusilla (glyphocarpa), Hook. /. And Wils. Stem scarcely two lines in height, the very short stem growing from a creeping stolon. Branches few, subfasciculate, curved, slender. Leaves erecto-patent, very small, ovate, slightly acute, cells lax, sub-entire, with a faint vanishing nerve; perichsetial, short, erect. Capsule reddish-brown, pendulous, and globose; fruitstalk short, arcuate at apex, pale; lid sub-conical. Brown's Eiver, Mt. Wellington. E. Philonotis. Capsule with, peristome, striate; with short branches of unequal height (fasciculate), male flowers discoid. Leaves distant, serrulate, margins flat. 2. B. remotifolia, Hook. /. And Wils. Stems-Jin. short, slender, not thicker than fruitstalk, fasciculately branched; branches short, slender, recurved; leaves glacous, distant, spreading, loosely crisped when dry, lanceolate-acuminate, serrulate, margin plane; narrow pellucid excurrent nerve; perichsetial longer, erect. Fruitstalk stout, long; capsule sub-erect. Philonotis appressa, Mitten. Brown's Eiver, Elliott Eivulet. Leaves serrulate, inner teeth connected. 3. B. tenuis, Tayl. Stems slender, fasciculately branched; branches slender, flexuous; leaves loosely spreading, secund, narrow, lanceolate, serrulate, margins flat, acuminate, with a long spinous point, nerve excurrent; perichsetial erect, setaceous point. Fruitstalk long, slender. Capsule inclined; cilia of internal...