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agreeing better with Weddell’s no. 53 from the Andes of Peru, but 
our plants are smaller with shorter leaves, turning yellower with 
age, and more coarsely and doubly serrate at the apex. 
Entodon Jamesoni (Tayl.) Mitt. Unduavi, 8000 ft. October, 
1885 (3175). 
FAaBRONIA SINGULIDENS C.M., n. sp. Ingenio del Oro., 10000 ft. 
March, 1886 (3176); Mapiri, 10000 ft. (3182 pp). 
Plants in dense pale, yellowish-green mats; stems with numer- 
ous short branches 3-5 mm. long; leaves crowded, spreading 
minute, ovate-acuminate with a long subulate point, margins 
Spinose-dentate or rarely entire at the apex of the branches, vein 
ending above the middle; basal cells square at the angles. Peri- 
chetial leaves broad and serrate at apex, with a suddenly subulate 
Point; vein short. Pedicel erect, 5 mm. long; capsule small, little 
Over I mm. long, ovoid ; neck distinct, tapering into the pedicel ; 
lid conic-rostrate, small, yellow; mouth small, bordered by 4-5 
rows of transversely elongated, darker, denser cells; peristome 
short, teeth brown when old, pale when young, united in fours or 
divided when old, smooth, slender at apex. 
_ Closely related to F. polycarpa Hook. from which it differs in 
its abruptly subulate perichetial leaves and its ovate capsule. 
Hypnum (CUPRESSINA) ENTODONTICARPUM C.M., n. sp. Unduavi, 
12000 ft. October, 1885 (3186). 
Plants in dense, yellowish-green, glossy cushions; stems pin- 
nately branched, arcuate, 1-2 cm. long, branches 5-8 mm. long; 
leaves crowded, uncinate hooked, entire, veinless; cells of basal 
angles inflated, yeliow. Monoecious. Perichetial leaves longer, 
Outer uncinate, inner erect, subulate, all veinless. Pedicels red 
below, twisted above, 15-20, mm. long; capsules erect, cylindric 
Or arched; neck tapering; wails thin; mouth bordered by denser, 
brown cells; peristome double; teeth brown, short and thick, 
bordered by the adherent segments of the inner peristome. 
Compared with Drepanium hamatum Mitt., no, 1046, Spruce 
Musci Am. et And.), specimens of which are preserved at Kew 
but are not listed by Mitten. Closely related to this species, but 
differs in its more clearly veined leaves and longer pedicels. 
Leskea aciculata Taylor. Near Yungas, 6000 ft. 1885 (3177). 
Compared with Jameson’s specimens from Quito with which 
it agrees. 
LESKEA (ScuwetscukEa) Bortviana C.M.,n. sp. Mapiri, 10000 
ft., 1886 (3102). Sorata, 10000 ft., February, 1886 (3185). 
Plants in dense yellowish-green mats; stems 1-3 cm. Jong, 
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