Bryophyte notes

Abstract

In the description of the Mosses of Tasmania recorded in Papers and Proceedings for 1913, a specimen of Ephemerum cristatum, H.f.W., not being available, Mitten's description was used. This is vague and insufficient to assist the junior student. The plant is minute, barely one millimetre in height, the capsule is globose as in Acaulon, but the leaves are very distinct. These are of thin texture, ovate-acuminate, the margin and midrib armed with relatively long simple or compound spinous processes. The cells are rectangular, but very irregular in size and shape. This description is from a specimen gathered at Bellerive by A. J. Taylor in 1886.