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to R. pilifer, is the same. Paris (1. c.) gives the distribution 

 of R pilifer as Tonkin, Borneo, Java et New Guinea; there 

 are specimens, however, in the Kew Herbarium from the 

 Malay Peninsula (on rocks, Waterfall Hill, coll. L. Wray, 

 Herb. Mas. Perak, n° 1722). 



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6. Erpodhnn domingensc (Spreng.) Brid. 



Mr. A. Vaughan Jennings has brought me a specimen of 

 a fruiting moss (collected by him this year in Jamaica), 

 which belongs to the above species. Mr. Vaughan Jennings 



gives the following details of the habitat : — « The speci- 

 men was collected from a tree — trunk on the roadside 

 about a mile North of the Constant Springs Hotel, and 

 therefore some eight miles from Kingston. The moss was 

 growing among rhizomes of a species of Polypodium, on 

 the bark of a tree. The tree was not identified, but Pithe- 

 colohhim Saman Benth. (locally known as the Guango) 

 is very common along the road, and it was very probably 



that. » 



Erpodium domingcme has been known hitherto only 



from St. Domingo, where it was collected by Bertero in the 

 beginning of the present century. It seems curious that it 

 has not been noticed before in Jamaica, as several collec- 

 tions have been made in the island. 



Bridel (Bryol. Univ. II, 167 (1827) has erroneously been 

 given as the author of the present species, instead of Spren- 

 gel, who described the moss ais Anoectanr/ium domingrnse 

 (Neue Entdeckungen, III, 3 (1822), and to whom Bridel 

 himself refers in Bryol. Univ. I, 122 (1826). 



7. Gymnostomiim inconspicuum Griff. 



Miiller, in a paper entitled a Triquclrella genus musco- 

 rum novum », etc. in Oesterr. Bot. Zeit,, XLVII, p. 420 

 (1897) has described a barren moss from India under the 

 name of Triquetrella laxifolia n. sp., citing as synonyms 

 the unpublished mss. names of « Uymenostijlium trique- 

 triim Mitt, in Hb. Griffith nr. 843 b and « Zygodon triquctcr 

 Ilpe in Hb. » The new trivial name was given by Miiller to 



avoid a pleonasm. 



I have, however, recently (Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 

 XXXIV, p. 450, pi. 17 (1900) given a description and 

 figures (based on fruiting examples in Griffith's herbarium 

 and on Chinese specimens, also fruiting, collected by 

 D"- E. Faber) of the moss called by Mitten « Uymenoslylhun 



triquetrvm », and pointed out that this is the plant 

 originally published by Griffith (Not. II, p. 394 (1849) as 

 Gymnokomum inconspicuum, and referred to as? Hyme- 

 nostyliitm inconspicuum by Mitten in Muse. Ind. Or., p. 33. 



