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MU, H. K. DIXOlN : TUK MOSSES OF THE 



HcJwig. xliv 



in Ilodwig. xlv 



AKRORRYorsis LOXGissiMA (Doxj & Molk.), Fleiscli. in 

 (li)05) 305. 



(No. 50.) Forinii psondo-lanosa {Broth. & Gob.), Floiscli. 



Neckeliopsis Lepinean.v (Mont.), Fleiscli., Musci . . von Buiten^org, iii 



879. 



(No. 28.) 



ll0:irALIODEN-DKON SCALl'ELLIFOLIUM (Mitt.), Floiscll. 



(I'JOG) 75. 

 (Nos. 20, 27.) 



Camptooilete suBroROTRiciioiDEs (Brotli. & Geh.), Brotli. in Englor & 



Pi-antl, Pflanzeneam., Tell i. Abt. 3. ll.' 8(55. {Thamniella mlporotrlcliokUsy 

 Broth, k Goh. in Bibl. Bot. IleCt xliv. (1808) 22. Camptochde Jla<jelUfera,. 



Broth, in sched. et op. et loc. cit.) 



la montosis Mo-roka,. 



Porotrichuin Lor'uc det.. 



(No. 29.) '' Nova Gainoa aiistro-orlont. Brit. 

 1300 m., distr. Moresby, 1893, leg. L. Loria. 

 C. M., No. 719, nov. sp. in lit. 1895, Bryothcca E. Lcvler." Brit. New 

 Guinea, leo-, Mrs. Musgravo, 1897, det. Brotherus as C. fla<jeUifera, nov. sp. 



in sched. in herb. Binstead. 



Brotlierus and Gohecb described their Thamniella suhporotricholdes on fertile 

 specimens collected by Boccari on ^It. Arfak. From the descriplion and 

 fioin-es it is extremely close to C. porotrichoides (Besch.), Broth., from New 

 cSledouia, but differs according to the authors in the branch-leaves rigidly 

 patent, never distichous in the lid obliquely rostrate, and the cilia of the 

 inner peristome longer and nodose only, not appendiculate. I have not seen 

 fruit of the New Caledonian plant, but in specimens leg. Franc (comm. 

 Tbcriot) the branch-leaves while usually distichous indirection are sometimes 

 arranged all round the stem, exactly as figured by Geheel) for C. suhporofrl- 

 choUUs. This character, drawn from the direction of the branch-leaves, can, 

 I think, have no specific value ; in several species of the genus it varies quite 



plctely within the limits of the same gathering ; and precisely the 

 same is the case in the alHeil genus T!iamnium, e,g. in Thamidiim alopecnrum 

 (L.) and T. penncefonne (llornsch.), Kindh. ; am! I think the specific 

 distinction between the New Guinea plant and that of New Caledonia must 

 rest on the fruiting characters alone. Mr. Clark's siuH'inuMi has the leaves 

 rioi.lly distichous, but in other ways agrees exactly willi the description and 

 figures of C. sidmorotrirJioides, ami I feel no liesitation in referring it here. 



as com 



I also n-fer to this speeies, though witli not quite the same tlcgrcc of" 

 M-tainty, the plants determined by Brotherus as C.JIagcU'ifera. Although, 

 lis name is included In the 'Musci,' it is, as far as I can ascertain, an 

 nnpul)li>htHl name. I have in my herbarium, ex Herb. Binstead, original 

 sperimeus of the plant collected by Mrs. Musgrave, and 1 have studied tho 



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