OF THE GENUS SYMBLEPHARIS. 499 
S. pumila, Hook. f., Handb. New Zeal. Fl. p. 405 (1867)= 
Holomitrium pumilum, Mitt. Ms. 
Species not seen. 
S. jamaicensis, C. Müll, in Bull. l'Herb. Boiss. t. v. (1897) 
p. 555. 
S. Hildebrandii, C. Müll! I. c. p. 850 (1897). 
S. sinensis, C. Müll., in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. v. p. 171 (1898). 
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xxxi. p. 331 (1888). 
(4) Hooxzmn, Ie. Pl. i. xviii. t. 4 (1837). 
(5) Idem, Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. p. 5 (1540). 
(6) Wirsow, Kew Journ. Bot. ix. p. 292 (1857). 
(7) BrscukRELLE, Rev. Bryol. 1891, p. 88. 
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p. 39 (1897). 
[Sinee the above was written, Mr. C. H. Wright has kindly 
shown me a moss named Symblepharis obliqua, Broth., just 
received at Kew among some British New Guinea mosses deter- 
mined by Brotherus. The description of this moss has not yet 
appeared. 
The leaves show well-defined alar cells, and the plant, in my 
opinion, belongs to Holomitrium, with which genus it agrees well 
in habit, &c. It is probably the form of the peristome that has 
led to the moss being placed in Symblepharis. The peristome 1s 
composed of teeth approximated in pairs, and somewhat closely 
resembles that of S. helicophylla, Mont. But just as Symble- 
pharis, as mentioned above, must be widened to include mosses 
with equidistant teeth, so must Holomitrium be allowed to 
include species with the teeth arranged in pairs. This has, in 
