466 MR. E. 8. SALMON ON 
H YPOPTERYGIACEÆ. 
HYPOPTERYGIUM Faurier, Besch.—Japan: Kobe (C. Ford, 
Noy. 1890, no. 283). 
In Bescherelle's (18) diagnosis of the species the nerve of the 
* folia stipuliformia ” is described as “ad $ producta" and as 
“ disparaissant bien au-dessous de la partie rétrécie." In Ford's 
specimens the nerve is nearly always excurrent, and forms the 
cuspidate point of the leaf, although very rarely it vanishes at 
the base of the point. In an authentic specimen of H. Fauriei, 
however, kindly sent to me by M. Bescherelle, the nerve is 
similarly variable. Mitten (7. p. 156) reports the same kind of 
variation in H. japonicum. Only barren examples of H. Fauriei 
have hitherto been known; Ford’s specimens are in fruit (with 
deopereulate capsules) and show the following characters :— 
fructibus aggregatis (2-3), eapsula in peduneulo longo (2-34 
cent.) flexuoso ruberrimo levi vel summo apice sublevi turgide 
vel late oblonga (2-21 mill. longa, 1j mill. lata) horizontali 
nutanteve subito in pedunculum contracta, peristomio normali, 
sporis parvulis 11-13 diam. levibus. 
NECKERACES. 
LEUCODON DENTICULATUS, Broth. MSS.—China: Kiukiang 
(Miss Reid). Agrees with specimens so named by C, Miiller 
(Bryoth. E. Levier, no. 1491). 
(EDICLADIUM SINICUM, Afitt—Japan: Kobe (C. Ford, Nov. 
1890, no. 284). Hitherto kown only from the single locality Tsus 
Sima (Wilford). The calyptra of this species is cucullate, narrow, 
smooth, and reaches to a little below the base of the capsule ; 
the operculum is rostrate. 
CLIMACIUM JAPONICUM, Lindb.—China: Lao-yeh Ling, and 
other hills near Mukden (H. E. M. James, May-Aug. 1886); 
Hupeb, Chienshih (Dr. A. Henry, June 1889, no. 5934); Sze- 
ehuen, N. Wushan (idem, Sept. 1889, no. 7059); Tientai Mt., 
3000 ft., Prov. Chekiang (Dr. E. Faber, 1889, no. 5). 
C. japonicum is only very briefly described by Lindberg (9. 
pp. 232,249), and no description of the leavesis given. The nerve 
of the branch-leaves has on the dorsal surface several (2-6) teeth 
at its apex (in this respect recalling C. ruthenicum, Lindb., see 
