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16, but not with the description cited above. The description of 
the pedicel as elongated would seem to preclude this. The only 
other species, then, to which this description seems to fit, would 
be B. curviseta L. & J. This species occurs in several sets of 
Drummond's Mosses under No. 15, from which it was described — 
and is the only one of Drummond's which had not been definitely 
named, by number, when the Manual was issued in 1884. It 
agrees with the description in its small capsules, which are pyti- 
form and exserted on a long pedicel, and also long apiculate, with 
a smooth calyptra. It is very probable that this species will prove 
to be Wilson's lost species. We cannot be certain of this, how- 
ever, as the number cited for B. microcarpa by Lesquereux and 
James is No. 14 of Drummond’s Southern Mosses. In our set, 
which was formerly the property of G. J. Lyon, and came to ? 
recently from South Kensington, on No. 14, there is pencilled 
above the name under which it was distributed « B. flexuosa val- | 
microcarpa.” These specimens have been examined and agree 
with B. Sudlivanti Aust. It therefore seems. as if B. microcapa 
Wilson would remain uncertain, as we learn from Wilson’s Her- 
barium at South Kensington that his specimens are B. Rai renelit. 
It is probable that Wilson sent Jager the specimens preserved in 
his Herbarium, as he credits the species to Wilson “ in litt.” in 
which case it would become one of the synonyms of 4. Drum- 
_mondi, this name having priority of place in Jager’s Musci Cleisto- 
carpi; but if it should prove to be the same as B. Sullivanti 0 
B. curviseta it would replace these names, over which ithas priority: 
Bruchia Hampeana C. Miiller, Syn. Musc. 1: 18 (1849). 
_ Sporledera Schwegrichenii Hpe. in litt. fide Miiller |. ¢- 
Bruchia Schwegrichenti Jeger, Musci Cleist. 36 (1869)- 
The description given by Miiller refers only to the one 
specimens sent him by Hampe from Herb. Schweegrichen, a) Be 
cites no North American locality for this species. In a po® 
card dated March, 1893, he says: . 
“Br, Hampeana Chilensis in America septentrionalis non occurrit.” 
On consulting Jeger’s description of B. Schewegrichenti find 
he cited B. Hampeana Miiller as a synonym, and besides: 
original Chilian Coe! says, “in Louisiana el; Dray 
