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It is interesting to find in the Kew Herbarium that 

 specimens of the present moss which had been examined 

 by Wilson bear the follo^ying note ; " opcrcuL dehis- 

 cent ?.,. capsida Ihiea siUiirali notata '\ and some of the 

 specimens are labelled " Eccremidium exiginnn ^\ In 

 examining the material 1 have found some nearly mature 

 capsules which under a sUght pressure throw off their 

 lids, — opening in fact in just the same way as the other 

 species of the genus Eccremidium, The capsule has a few 

 superficial stomata about its base ; the spores (hardly ripe) 

 measure from 50-G0[j. in diameter and according to a note 

 of Wilson'Sj are about 100 in number; the calyptra is 

 campanulate. 



It is quite evident from Miiller^s remark quoted above 

 that the specimens sent to him belonged to a cleistocarpous 

 moss quite distinct from the present species. In the Kew 

 Herbarium there is a specimum of Astomum Ki^auseanum 

 Hmp. (" Austral, felix ad flum. Yarra "); this is apparently 

 a true Plcuridium, The two other species of Eccremidimn^ 

 — E. arcuatum Hook. f. et Wils. and E, pulchcUum 

 Hook, f, Wils., are also both Australian mosses. 



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(9j. Amblystegium. hygrophiloides Schpr. mss. in 

 Herb. ; Savat. M. Jap. n. 715 (fide Paris, Index bryolog.). 



In the Kew examples (which, being in Schimper's her- 

 barium, and named in Schimper's handwriting, must be 

 taken as the type) there are two different mosses, both in 

 fruit, under the nameyl. %^ro/3Mo/^e.s(Yokoslca, Nippon 



(Savatier (1878)). One of these is a species of Pscitdoleskea 

 (with papillose leaf-cells and longly excurrent nerve) ; the 

 other has much curved capsules on rather long setae, and 

 by these characters recalls somewhat A, hygrophihim 

 Schpr. Upon closer examination, however, this latter moss 

 (which may safely be considered the A. hygrophiloides of 

 Schimper) is seen to evidently belong, in habit, arrange- 

 ment of leaves, areolation, etc., to the section Campy Hum 

 oi nypmim. Moreover, a close comparison of Schirtiper's 

 plant shows, I consider, that it is identical with certain 

 "European forms of Ihjpnum chry soph y Hum Brid., — a 

 species which has already been recorded from Japan. 



(10). IlYPNUM Savatieri Schpr. mss. in Herb. 



There are two 

 and ^' Yokoska, 



Schimper's handwriting. On one of these specimens 

 '' Eurhynchium subspeciosum Schpr. " had first been 



Besche 



) specimens of this at Kew, from " Nippon " 

 , Nippon ", both named ''11. Sacaticri '' m 



itten, and then crossed through in favour of the Hypmim^ 

 scherelle has correctly given ^' Hypnum Smmtieri '' as 

 a synonym oiEurhynchiuin Savatieri^ch[)i\ mss. [E- subs- 



