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But with that exception we were fortunate. Timmiella flexisela, 
it is true, proved rather a will o’ the wisp, at first. We spent many 
hot hours and lost our tempers and our epidermis on the Cistus- 
covered slopes of Picota, under which shrubs, teste Solms-Laubach, 
Timmiella loves to congregate, and gained little by our trouble but 
gum ladanum on our garments. When we did find a Trichostomum 
it was always Tr. mulabile, which seemed to take an impish delight 
in raising vain hopes, even going to the length of a flexuose seta 
on occasion; and when an undoubted Timmiella appeased it 
was either barren and useless, or if in fruit was at once recognised 
as T. Barbula. At last, however, a few tufts of a veritable Tim- 
* miella with a curiously twisted seta rewarded our efforts; but it 
appears to have modified its habits somewhat during the last 
half-century, and we rarely if ever found the large tufts on the 
higher slopes under Cistus bushes which we had been led to 
expect. Once indeed we gathered it, and fruiting, under bushes 
on a hill side, but it was then mostly under Myrtle and Quercus, 
and much mixed with Trich. mulabile. Perhaps the best speci- 
mens, and these none too copious, were found under the shade of 
boulders by streamlets on the hill side. For Fissidens algarvicus 
we were, in May, of course too late; but we scraped together a 
few plants on already parched up banks close to Caldas de Mon- 
chique. Plychomitrium nigricans we found in two or three spots 
about, Caldas, and in fair quantity. Anomobryum juliforme was 
abundant, and fruited freely and quite rashly, being in many 
cases quite dried up before the capsules were nearly mature, 
Rhaphidostegium substrumulosum evaded us in Algarve, where 
it is probably extremely rare (Solms-Laubach only saw it on one 
tree); but we were fortunate in finding it in good fruit and fair 
_ Quantity in the woods of Bussaco. 
One of the plants we especially desired to study was the one 
referred (erroneously) by Solms-Laubach to Thuidium punclu- 
lalum. This we found after a good deal of search, in stations simi- 
lar to that in which it was originally discovered, viz. on bare 
ground under Chestnuts; but we gathered it much more abun- 
dantly and in better condition in other localities, notably the 
bed of a streamlet near Caldas, and the moist perpendicular wall 
-of a heading driven into a hill-side. Careful examination of the 
plant at home showed that it was a Claopodium,and so close as 
probably to be identical with C. Whippleanum and C. leuconeu- 
_ already being dealt with at length by Mr. Nicholson in the pages 
of the Bryologist. te 
_ron of North America, This interesting discovery is however, . 
