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Mr. James; but in Mar. 1877, Capt. Donnell Smith sent me from 

 the Indian River, Florida, a little Fissidens which I described at the 

 time as new, and sent a specimen to Mr. James. He replied that he 

 already had it diagnosed and ready for publication, under the name 



my specimens. I have since found it myself in southwest Florida, 

 on shells, rotten wood and roots of trees. It also occurs on coquina 

 rocks. Here again the authors are at fault with their inflorescence. 

 They say "flos bisexualis." I have invariably found the species 

 pseudo-dioecious, e. g., as in F. obtusifolhis, Wils. 



(10.) Fissidens Floridatms, L. & J. Hab. Florida, Garber.—l 

 have not been able to get any clue to this moss. Mr. James informs 

 me that he has none of it; having left his only specimen with Prof, 

 bchimper. We are not told whether it grows on the ground or else- 

 where. The leaf IS said to have a " large pellucid border." This 

 character belongs to but two species in this country, known to me, 

 and both of them are common in Florida. They are F. decipiens and 

 F adiantoides,—\\iQ former dioecious, the latter monoecious :— (both 

 have^ lateral inflorescence.) In one place the inflorescence is said to 

 be monoecious, with the male fls. terminal on longish lateral 

 branches, and the female fls. axillary on the middle of the stem " 

 In another place, "the species," it is said, " is related to F. osmun- 

 dioides Hedw. [which is dioecious !] by its monoecious, terminal in- 

 tlorescence _ In one place the capsule is said to be oval-oblong and 



wf.'T^K ' ^" ^"°.^1^^^" oblong-cylindrical and curved." Upon the 

 whole, the ambiguity of the description, together with the paucity of 

 the specimens, would seem to exclude this " new moss "from the 

 category of things havmg an actual existence. 



(II.) Cryphaea pendula, L. & J. Hab. Florida, j.u. ^nni/i 

 {C glomerata var., AusT., Muse. Appalach. Suppl. n. 526.)_In t e 

 first place I beheve the specific name is not well chosen ; for, if I ant 

 not greatly mistaken, the plant is the reverse of pendulous n the 

 second place, excepting that the leaves towards the ends o^ he 



d ffe' e'n rfetwr^.^" ^""/? ^^"-"^^^^' ^ ^^ ^^^le to find any 

 four/a^fn^r. /^^^^J.^^!!^.^'^^ ----\ P'-t which is sometime's 



L D. Smith. 



Jersey 



^omerata^ Sch,mp. In the fo^ if the o d i'naV^t mTeaves'?^^^^^^^^ 

 tionofthe same, perichaetial leaves, capsule, Valyptaroperculum" 

 annulus peristome, spores, and in the ramification I am unable to 

 find a shadow of difference between them. In l\:lT.y.T^);'^ 



ties unon Cfv^h..^ J -'^-'^"-^" L.icui. in mis case the authori- 



Hybmim Wats or. 



L; & J. Hab. Colorado, Watson. 



(comnaref^ witK n • ^ -^^^ ^^ufleuri, JURATZKA. (l86l> 



Colorado, Oregon and R^, V \ f ^ """y specimens of it from 

 latitudes ;„TafpTne region o^°i™; rh'^" °"""/-" "j^ '''S'^ 



V cgions ot h^urope. 1 he most striking feature 



