468 DB. LINDBEBO'S CONTBIBUTIONS TO BBITISH BBYOLOQT. 



. (1827). We 



/3 



Nechera 



(Lob.), Jur., not yet noticed as English. 



Neckera Besseri {Lob,) Jur. 



Omalia Besseri, Lob. in Haiding. Naturw, Abh i. p. 48, no. I 



(1847). 



MS.: CMiil 



(1850). 



Mono a 



Wien 



descriptus). 



Homalia Sendtneri, Schpr. Synop. p. 473. no. 3 (1860). 



Delin, — B. S. Bry, Eur, L c, 



Var. p. rotundifolia(HGr^), Lindb. 



N. rotundifolia. Hart. Sk. Fl. ed. 5, p. 338. no. 5 (1849). 



Homalia rotundifolia, Schpr. Syn. p. 474. no. 4. 



Is easily recognized from iV. complanata by its rounded obtuse 

 leaves, wholly composed of rhombic cells. 



■ 



X. SpTiagnum curvifolium^ Wils. 



Of this I possess only the male plant, collected by the author 

 near Holyhead (March 1856 and October 1857) and at Vale 



with 



subsecundum. 



(Efv 



xxi. p. 201 (1SG4), as Mr. Sullivant first pointed out to me, a 

 species found previously in North America and Scandinavia, It 

 id a collateral species to S. subsecundum^ but distinct by its cortex 

 (rather corJc^ analogous to the velamen radicum on the aerial roots 

 of epiphytical Orchidese, as I, have already pointed out in my 

 essay on Bog-Mosses) formed of two or three layers of cells, as 

 also by its perichsetial bracts. It is also a rather polymorphous 

 species. 



Sphagnum neglectum, Angstr, in (Efv. V. Ah. Fork. xxi. p. 201 

 (1864). 



S. subsecundum {hand N. Es., C. MuL Synops. p. 234. no. 14 



(1851). • 



S. contortum {haud Schuliz), SulL Moss. [7. S. p. 11. no. 3 (1856). 

 S. cur vifolium , fVils. MS. 



Delin. — SulL Icon. Muse, Sup. (nondum publicatum). 



Ilelsingfors, 30 Dec. 18G9. 



