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abundance, I set about examining it carefully, and, first of all, 

 sought for male flowers on the same stem as the female flowers, 

 but could not find them. They were quite abundant however 

 on separate stems. This being the case a suspicion arose as to 

 whether the Glenshee plant were the true D. Greidlleana, a 

 suspicion made stronger still by the leaves not being entire as 

 Wilson describes them. I then examined authentic specimens 

 of £>. Grevillmna, gathered in Glentilt by Miss Maclnroy, at 

 Helsingfors by Lindberg, on Mount Splugen by Schimper, and 

 neai- Schladming (Styria) by Breidler. These varied very much. 

 The leaves in the Glenshee, Helsingfors and M. Splugen 

 specimens were more or less distinctly serrulate by a few coarse 

 shallow teeth at the apex, and tw^o or three lower down. In 

 the Glentilt and Schladming specimens they were entire. The 

 lid in the Helsingfors specimens was not longer than the 

 capsule. In the Glentilt and Mount Splugen specimens it was 

 rather longer, whilst in those from Schladming it was twice as 

 long. In the Helsingfors, Glentilt, and T^Iount Splugen speci- 

 mens, the capsules were faintly striate and substrumose; in the 

 Schladming and Glenshee specimens they were distinctly so. 

 But however much they varied from each other, there was 

 one point in which they agreed, there was Jiot a svigle case of 

 moftoicoiis inflorescence. 



Some considerable time ago Mr. Grant of Lossiemouth sent 

 me what he supposed to be a Mniiini, gathered by him in one 

 of his excursions among the Grampians. It seems to me to be 

 Bryiini cyclophylluni, a very rare European species, and new to 

 Great Britain. The specimens were barren, but agree with 

 European ones in the same state. 



Quite recently Mr. R. H. Paterson of Glasgow has sent 

 specimens of several mosses collected by him, principally in 

 Argyleshire, during the summer of 1875. Among these are 

 Pottia crinita from the sea side near Kilfinan \ Myurella iulacea 

 in fruit, and Hypnuni Halleri from Ben Tigh. A still more 

 important species consisted of two stems of the long lost 

 Neckera pennata, said to have been gathered by Drummond, at 

 Fotheringham, near Forfar, and by Mr. D. Orr, in Colin Glen, 

 near Belfast. Mr. Roy of Aberdeen and myself not long ago 

 searched the former station for it without success, and Mr. 

 Stewart of Belfast has repeatedly huntedfor it in the Irish station 

 with no better result. Its rediscovery by Mr. Paterson in 

 Balimore woods, Argyleshire, is most interesting, as giving us 



