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(13). Barrula Blyttii Schp., Syn. Muse, 2 ed. p. 208 

 (1870). _ This moss, since its original discovery by D"" Blytt 

 in Finmark and its publication in Schiinper's Synopsis in 

 1876, lias not been found by any ^or^Yegian bryologist. For 

 this reason, D'' I. llagen suggested to me that an examina- 

 tion of Schimper's type specimen in the Kcw Herbarium 

 would be of interest. In Schimper's herbarium there is a 

 specimen bearing the following label in Blytt's handwriting : 

 « Ob folia madefacta rccurvala pro nova species habui, et in 

 Herbario meo Bnjum recurvi folium nominavi. In Alten, 

 Finm. occid. Blytt ». On this label Schimper has written 

 « Tfkhoslomum novum » and « 7V. anrjusllfolium ». This 

 specimen, as shown by the locality, collector, and charac- 

 ters of the plant, is the Darhula Bhjtin of Schimper's Synop- 

 sis. An examination of this material shows it to consist 

 (besides a few fruiting stems of Wehem elongala) of barren 

 plants of Amphoridium Mougeolii (Bryol. Eur.) Schpr. The 

 examples of the latter are slightly different from the usual 

 habit of the species in being a little more rigid with the 

 leaves perhaps more erect and more solid than usual, and 

 often broken off above. They are in these characters identi- 

 cal with some of the type specimens of « Barbula Woodn » 

 Schpr. from Killarney, Ireland), which has been shown to 

 be a form of A. Mougeolii, Schimper separated « Barbula 

 Bbttlii » from « Bnrhula TT ondii » by the characters « fohis 

 angustioribus, solidioribns, angustius rcticulatis, utroque 

 margine e medio ad insertioncm basis rellexo «, but these 

 distinctions do not hold good in the specimens examined. 

 As regards the rather stiff habit of « Barbula Bhjlln » there 

 are forms of A. Mouqeotii in the Kew Herbarium, from 

 several places on the continent qnite similar in this respect 

 and there is, I think, no doubt that Barbuh Blglln must be 

 considered a svnonym of the la Iter plant, with which it 

 agrees exactly in the shape jand areolalion of the leaves. 



(14) Meteorium pendulum Sv\\\i\. in China. — Amongst 

 the collection of Chinese mosses, of which I have given a 

 list in the Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), AWIV p. 449 (10(0), 

 there occurred a species of Melmrium which, from the 

 figure given in Sull. Ic. Muse, seemed to agree with M. 

 pendulum Sulliv. Being unable, however, at the time to see 

 specimens of M. pendulum, I could not complete the uhni- 

 tincaHon. Just lately, however M^^ Britton l^j'S sent to Kew 

 a fruiting specimen of M. pendulum, from Thibbadanaville, 

 Louisiana, U. S. A., (coll. D^ Chas. Mohr), and on comparing 

 this with the Chine£? plant the .specific identity of the two 



