REVUE BRYOLOGIQUE 37 
have already been fully described by Solms-Laubach, sot hat 
there is no need to repeat what is so admirably treated there. 
À single day was spent at Portinao, but the season was too far 
advanced there for mosses; there being but little shade and the 
sun having already attained great power everything in the Way 
of bryophytes was dried up except in a very few sheltered rocky 
nooks. The same was the case at Silves, where we spent a day 
or two on our return journey. 
Returning north to Lisbon we had a day’s botanizing in the 
neighbourhood of Cintra and Colhares. The little electric road 
tramcar at Cintra station was somewhat grandiloquently label- 
led « Cintra âo Oceano », but failed to live up to its promise, as 
the current gave out a mile or so before we reached the « Ocean »; 
we left the driver and conductor in amicable converse by the 
roadside, and walked through a maze of sand dunes, pine woods 
and vineyards, to Colhares, whence we returned to Cintra by 
Eugaria and the Quinta de Monserrate. There on walls by a stream 
we found Homalia lusilanica in quantity, one of the mosses 
which we had vainly hoped to see in the south. 
A day or two at Coimbra gave us an opportunity of penetrating 
into the Serra d’Estrella ; from views of the scenery we had the 
hope of finding some good bryological ground ; but the slackness 
Of things Portuguese, especially in the matter of travelling, pre- 
vented us from doing much, as the day was chiefly taken up in 
the journey to and from Louza, although the distance from Coim- 
bra was less than 20 miles. We were glad however to see again the 
Claopodium, though in small quantity, and here Fissidens ser- 
rülatus, which in the neighbourhood of Caldas had been very 
scanty, began to appear in some quantity. One of our best finds, 
however, was in very unpromising ground during a walk taken 
from Coimbra, during which we came upon nothing whatever 
of interest till the road took a turn through a rather deep cutting, 
on the sides of which we found small tufts of what looked much 
like Trichostomum mulabile var. litlorale, and indeed for the 
most part was that moss, but having mixed withit another, sterile 
moss with the leaves rather markedly toothed at apex, reminding 
us of Zygodon gracilis. This proved, on our return home, to be 
an undescribed species of either Didymodon or Hyophila, deseri- 
bed and figured below. à 
From Coimbra we went up to Bussaco, where a day spent in 
the beautiful but somewhat sombre woods was well rewarded by 
Fissidens serrulatus, freely fruiting in places, but over mature; 
by the Claopodium yet again, and the much desired Rhaphidoste- 
