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XXIV. Musci Nepalenses; or Descriptiojis ofjfeveral new Mosses 

 from Nepal. By William Jackson Hooker, Esq. F.L.S. 



Read June. 7, 1808. 



It is through the kindness of Dr. Smith, who has favoured me 

 with specimens for the purpose, that I have now the honour of 

 laying before the Linnean Society figures and descriptions of 

 such of the mosses gathered by Dr. Francis Buchanan, during 

 his journey to Nepal, as appear to have escaped the attention 

 of former writers on this subject. His collection contained also 

 a few others already published, the names of which I have 

 thought it best to insert, as nothing whatever is at present known 

 respecting the Muscologia of that very extensive country. 



1. Sphagnum iridans. 



S. iridans. Bridel. Suppl. I. p. 20. 



S. javense. Bridel. Hist. Muse. II. p. 27. t. 6. /. 3. 



S. clandestinum. Palisot de Beauvois. Prod. Mth. p. 88. 



The only specimen that Dr. Smith has received of this is bar- 

 ren. It is most probably a Dicranum, as Bridel suspects, and 

 there is a plant with fructification in Mr. Turner's collection, 



2 r 2 gathered 



