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however, all the specimens I have seen under that name 
belong truly to H. stellatum. 
Mr. Wilson, to whom I am indebted for the synonym of 
Myrin, and who thinks he has found * H. Sommerfeltii some- 
where in Wales," observes **the Yorkshire Hypnum Sommer- 
Jeltii does not exactly correspond with Myrin’s original spe- 
cimen, which has the leaves more decidedly patulo-recurved, 
but on the whole I am inclined to think them only states of 
one species." 
7. Hypnum pratense, Koch, caule subramoso ; foliis laxe im- 
bricatis, secundis, deltoideo-lanceolatis, subacuminatis, in- 
tegerrimis, enerviis; capsula cernua, oblonga; operculo 
conico. 
H. amenum, Drummond's Musci Americani, No. 196, (nec 
Hedwig). 
Has. *Road-sides, among thin grass, near Capel, Surrey, 
and Henfield and Shindon, Sussex; without fruit ;" Mr. 
Borrer, who adds, * I sent this moss when I first found it, 
nearly forty years ago, to Dawson Turner, whose note on 
it, preserved in my collection, is: ‘I have no moss like 
this in my herbarium, nor do I find any description of it. 
Its characters are few and plain. 
* < Caule indiviso, ramo uno alterove brevi erecto; foliis 
circinalibus deltoideo-acuminatis striatis enerviis." 
* Hooker also thought it new.—Arnott (without examina- 
tion perhaps) thought it H. aduncum.—Wilson has called it a 
var. of H. cupressiforme, and remarked : * It is, I believe, the 
same as H, amenum of Drummond's Musci Americani, 
No. 196, but certainly not H. amænum, Hedw. Sp. Musc. 
t. 77, which represents a much smaller moss with decidedly 
falcate leaves, and very like H. incurvatum.’” 
By means of specimens received from M. Bruch, I have been 
enabled to identify Mr. Borrer's moss with Hypnum pratense, : 
Koch, and to decide that it is truly distinct from H. cupreasi- s 
forme, as will be seen by the following diagnosis. SUAE 
Plants resembling H. aduncum in habit, and often present- — 
ing the brownish hue usual i in that pee Stems s very sper : p 
