D. TONER 
34 REVUE BRYOLOGIQUE 
Atlantic Is.), Bryum canariense, Anomobryum juliforme, Rhaphi- 
dostegium substrumulosum, pointed to a striking connection 
betweën the Algarvian moss-flora and that of Madeira and the 
Canaries, while such species as Fissidens algarvicus, Campylos- 
leleum striclum, Timmiella flexisela? Leskea algarvica, etc., 
unknown or scarcely known elsewhere, gave a special interest to 
its flora, These latter especially we were anxious to study in the 
field. Trichostomum flexiselum Bruch (now Timmiella flexiseta 
Limpr.) is only known elsewhere from Sardinia, with a doubtful 
record from California, and exists in few herbaria; Campylosle- 
leum striclum has only been found in two localities in Portugal and 
a single spot in Corsica, and the total amount in herbaria would 
probably go in a very small pill-box; while the plant referred by 
Solms-Laubach to Thuidium punclulalum De Not., but descri- 
bed as new by Schimper as ? Leskea algarvica, is a practically 
_ unknown plant outside Schimper’s herbarium, and might be 
expected, if found, to reveal its identity more clearly. 
On the other hand in a country so far south, with little preci- 
pitation of moisture during a long and extremely hot summer 
season, and with little or no dense woodland to protect plants 
from transpiration, we could not expect a rich bryological flora, 
and the interest of our collections was likely to prove rather 
intensive than extensive. The almost entire absence of calca- 
reous rock or soil, also, except in the plains, deprives much at 
least of Algarve of the richness which the bryological flora of 
other southern countries often exhibits. 
On the whole we found our expectations thoroughly fulfilled. 
We gathered all or nearly all the rarities listed by Solms-Laubach 
with the exception of the Campylosteleum. This little moss, in 
spite of the apparently exact particulars given of its locality and 
in spite of very careful exploration of all likely spots, we quite 
failed to discover. À shaded granite block « Solido eximia duritie 
prædito, ad ipsam viam quæ a Monchique Odemiram ducit, ante 
oppidi portam » seemed to offer little difficulty in locating. But 
alas ! There were many paths leading out of Monchique towards 
Odemira, and any one had as much (or as little) title to be con- 
sidered {he high road as any other; and whatever may have been 
the case in 1866, Monchique now boasts nothing on that side 
(nor indeed on any other) which might be called a « gate », and 
all our attempts to define the exact line of demarcation betwen 
the rural and the urban proved futile and abortive. Nor, though 
we searched diligently other promising spots in the district, were 
_ We any more successful. 
