452 ON THE NEW SPECIES OF MUSCI. 



Funaria glabra, may be a distinct species, but the charac- 

 ters are very much those of F. Fontanesii. 



Schistidium Drummondii. — If this Moss had a nerve, as 

 stated, no question would exist concerning its separation from 

 Anictanyium imberbe. No such character exists in A. aus- 

 trale (MSS. nob.), which is only a variety of A. imberbe. 



Fabronia incana, is F. tomentosa (Hook, et Wils. Ic. PI. 

 t. 739), and also F. Hampeana (Sonder in Hampe, Ic. Muse. 

 t. 13). The latter name was published the first. 



Pterogonium Jamesoni is Neckera leptocarpa, (Hook, et 

 Wils., MSS.)— (Tab. XVI. L.)— Certainly a Neckera, allied 

 to N. Beyrichii, but the leaves larger and serrulate above, 

 and the perichsetial leaves closely sheathing the base of the 

 short seta, capsule long and narrow, when old pellucid, so as 

 to show the columella within, 



Neckera Jamesoni, may perhaps be a variety of N. Dou~ 

 glasii, (Hook.) 



Neckera luteovirens, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, 

 operculo conico-subulato, calyptra mitriformi glabra conacea 

 rufo-fusca.— (Tab. XVI. N.) 



Hookeria erectiuscula, allied to Neckera scabriseta (Schw.)» 

 from which it differs in the longer seta, and wider more sym- 

 metrical leaves. 



Hookeria chloroneura, still more like Neckera scabriseta, 01 

 which it may even be a small slender variety, with the nerves 

 of the leaf more evident than usual. 



Leskea superba, (Tab. XVI. M.)— Perhaps two species are 

 included. The principal specimen from the westerly declivity 

 of Pichincha is identical with Hypnum flagelliforme (Hum- 

 boldt), in Herb. Hook. 



Leskea gymnopoda.—By means of intermediate specimens 

 gathered in Brazil by Mr. Gardner, it would appear that this 

 is only a state of Hypnum expansum (Taylor). 



Leskea angustata, is apparently the same as Pterogonium 

 consanguineum (Montagne in Crypt. Nilgh.) which may be only 

 a variety of P. nervosum, whose peristome is that of Leskea. 



