Additions to the Bryophyte flora

The mosses of Tasmania have had a very fair amount of attention paid to them, so that it is improbable any large number of new species will in future be added. The Hepatics have not been neglected, but their variability and the exceptional richness of form found in Tasmania have made their study more obscure. No doubt in the future many new species will yet be discovered, also some which we now recognise will be suppressed. Still, we can safely say that the hepatic flora of Tasmania approaches three hundred, which means it is almost the richest in species of any locality in the world.
Of the following mosses the Andreaeas would by some collectors be clubbed with A. petrophila, but then they would have to be treated as varieties. A. petrophila is most variable, and it is certainly desirable that prominence should be given to the principal forms. Blindid acuta was recorded as Tasmanian by J. D. Hooker. It is a European species, and as no specimen was present in any available collection it was left out of the previous work.
The Tasmanian form differs from the type, its leaf margin being quite entire, and the absence of quadrate cells at the basal angles. It may yet be described as a distinct suecies.