THE BOTANY OF GOUGH ISLAND. 265 
POLYTRICHUM COMMUNE, Lina. Sp. Pl. ed. 11. p. 1573 ; C. Muell. 
Syn. Muse. 1. p. 220. 
Distribution. Cosmopolitan, but not recorded from Tristan da 
Cunha. 
RUYNCHOSTEGIUM RHAPHIDORHYNCHUM, Paris, in Actes Soc. 
Linn. Bordeaux, ii. (1897) p. 170. 
Hypnum (§ Aptychus) rhaphidorhynchum, C. Muell. Syn. Muse. 
ii. p. 354. H. (§ Rhynchostegium) raphidorrhynchum, 
Mitt. in Chall. Bot. i. 11. p. 175. 
Distribution. Australia, South Africa, and Tristan da Cunha, 
Hepaties. 
By C. H. Wnranr, A.L.S. 
MancHANTIA POLYMORPHA, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 11. p. 1603; Taylor, 
in Lond. Journ. Bot. (1844) p. 480; Mont. in Voy. Póle 
Sud, * Astrolabe,’ i. p. 212; Mitt. in Chall. Bot. i. 11. p. 178; 
Steph. Sp. Hepat. i. p. 164. 
Distribution. Cosmopolitan, except that it has not been 
recorded from the African continent. Tristan da Cunha. 
JAMESONIELLA COLORATA, Spruce, in Journ. Bot. xiv. (1876) 
p. 202. 
Jungermannia colorata, Lehm. in Linnea, iv. (1829) p. 3606; 
Gottsche, Lindenb. & Nees, Syn. Hepat. p. 865 Mitt. in 
Chall. Bot. i. 11. p. 176. 
Distribution. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Kerguelen, 
Tristan da Cunha, and Temperate South America; and Clarence 
Island, South Shetlands. 
LOPHOCOLEA BIDENTATA, Dumort. Recueil Obs. Jung. p. 17; 
Gottsche, Lindenb. § Nees, Syn. Hepat. p. 159. 
Jungermannia bidentata, Lina. Sp. Pl. ed. 1t. p. 1598. 
Distribution. Cosmopolitan. Recorded from St. Helena, but 
not from Tristan da Cunha. 
Fungi. 
MERULIUS AMBIGUUS, Berk. North Amer. Fungi, n. 165; in 
Grevillea, i. (1872) 69. M. fugax, Rav. Fungi Car. i. p. 24; 
Succ. Syll. vi. p. 416. 
Grows on the trunks of Phylica nitida. 
Distribution. North America. 
