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are preserved at Kew in Hooker’s Herbarium. In 1841 Hooker 
and Wilson distributed as “ Bruchia brevipes Harvey M. S.,” 
No. 16 of Drummond’s Southern Mosses, collected in Louis- 
jana, with the remark « Capsulis sessilibus foliis non crispatis.”” 
In September of 1892 we received from the Natural History 
Museum at South Kensington a duplicate set of Drummond's 
Southern Mosses, on No. 16 of which I find pencilled B. Drum- 
mondu, Wilson M.S. I learn from Mr. Wright that « No. 16 of 
Drummond's second collection bears no note in the Kew set, but 
has been laid in with Bruchia flexuosa. nan index to the set in 
Wilson’s handwriting it is referred to thus: “ Bruchia elegans 
Hrsch. 16 « brevipes’ is crossed out with red ink.” 
Wilson must have been mistaken, however, for Plascum 
elegans, Asch. Linnza, 15 : 114 (1841) was collected at Newland’s 
Cape of Good Hope by Ecklon, and is cited as the same as 
Hooker’s 8. brevipes (1840), collected by Harvey, and not our 
American specimens as will be shown below. : 
Finding that Sullivant (Icon. Musc. p. 24) had not seen 
Harvey’s specimens, I asked for the privilege of seeing Hooker’s 
type, and have compared it critically with Drummond’s 16. This 
comparison proves that they are closely allied, but sufficiently dis- 
tinct to warrant their separation. At the first glance the aspect 
of the plants is different, Drummond’s being densely gregarious, 
bright yellowish green and glossy, Harvey’s scattered, and dull 
dark green ; in size also they differ, the American plants being 
throughout from a third to a half larger than the African ones, as 
the descriptions will show. 
Bruchia brevipes Hooker, Icon. Plant, ¢. 2377 (1840). 
; Plants Scattered, only 2 mm. high, dull dark green, stems 
simple, erect, leaves 6-10, lanceolate-subulate, longest 2 mm. en- 
re or faintly appressed serrulate, vein broad occupying all of the 
Mick plane apex, or occasionally channeled, and roughened on — 
the back, narrow at the base. Seta short, 25 mm., capsule erect or 
inclined, almost entirely exserted, .5 mm. long, apiculate and 
Orange colored above; neck short, not conspicuously truncate. 
alyptra small, . 33 mm., campanulate, (less beaked and lacerate 
than figured in (t. 231) spores rough, spinose, opaque, yellow, .037— 
‘040 mm., maturing in July (S. Africa). Collected by Harvey 
along roadside near Newlands, Cape of Good Hope, with Phascum 
yirvosum. A specimen was sent by Dr. Ward to Dr. Torrey 
labelled Bruchia Bbrevipes ? C. B.S. W. W. H. 3 
