gegen, 
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CTENIDIUM MALACODES, Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xii. (1869), p. 509. 
Mount Roraima, Ledge, 7500-8000 ft., McConnell & Quelch, 340. 
. Found in the mountains of New Granada and Quito. 
LESKEACE.E. 
Taviptum ANTILLARUM, Besch. in Ann. Se. Nat. Sér. VI. iii. (1876), p. 244. 
Roraima range, 3500 ft., McConnell & Queleh, 549. 
Found in Costa Rica and the West-Indian Islands. 
THUIDIUM PSEUDO-PROTENSUM, Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xii. (1869), p. 578. 
Hypnum pseudo-protensum, C. Muell. in Bot. Zeit. vi. (1848), col. 779. 
Mount Roraima, Ledge, 7500-8000 ft., McConnell & Quelch, 348. 
Found in Venezuela, 
SPHAGNACE.E. 
SPHAGNUM SANGUINALE, Warnst. in Bot. Centralbl. Ixxvi. (1898), p. 385. 
Mount Roraima, Ledge, 7500-8000 ft., McConnell & Quelch, 350, 541 in part. 
Endemic. 
SPHAGNUM MEDIUM, Limpr. in Bot. Centralbl. vii. (1881), p. 313. 
Mount Roraima, Ledge, 7500—8500 ft., MeConnell & Quelch, 349, 541 in part. 
Found in Europe and in America from Labrador to Patagonia. 
HEPATIC. By F. STEPHANI. 
The collection of Liverworts made by Messrs. McConnell and Quelch is a small one, 
but is of particular interest from a geographical point of view. Many plants were 
found which hitherto had been only observed in the Andes of South America; their 
unexpected appearance on the top of Mount Roraima is quite startling: the curious 
Frullania mirabilis, Jack et Steph., is of particular interest, as well as the very rare 
and beautiful Plewrozia paradoxa, Jack, both of which up to this time had not been 
elsewhere collected. 
It is possible that some of these plants may have intermediate stations of which we 
are at present ignorant; but a similar surprising collection was made by Mr. Ule (of 
the Botanic Garden of Rio Janeiro) in the Serra do Mar and the Serra Itatiaia, where 
Andine forms were collected, though stations forming connecting-links are altogether 
missing. 
There are also several new species, amongst which Metzgeria inflata is one of the 
most curious in the genus, being quite hairless and almost without any rootlets, lying 
like a small inflated cylindric pouch amongst other mosses. 
As cryptogamic plants, and in particular Liverworts, with few exceptions, have very 
small spores and live in sheltered and moist places from where the wind cannot easily 
