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Tortula casspitosa, Schwcegrichen. 



• Tortula ccespitosa, SchwEegrichen, t. 31 ; Mitt, in Melliss's St Hel., p. 360. 

 St Helena. — Indigenous? Old stone walls on the high land — Melliss. 

 South America and South Africa. 



Macromitrium (Macrocoma) microphyllum, Hooker. 



Macromitrium (Macrocoma) microphyllum, Hooker et Greville in. Brewster's Edinb. Journ., i. p. 121, 

 t. 6 (Orthotrkhum) ; Mitt, in Melliss's St. Hel., p. 360. 



St Helena. Melliss. 



South Africa ; Australia ; New Zealand. 



Macromitrium (Goniostoma) urceolatum, Hooker. 



Macromitrium (Goniostoma) urceolatum, Hooker, Musci Esotici, t. 124 (Orthotrichum) ; Mitt, in 

 Melliss's St Hel., p. 360. 



St Helena. Menzies, 1798; Haughtoii; Melliss. 



South America ; Juan Fernandez. 



Macromitrium (Goniostoma) seemanni, Mitt. 



Macromitrium (Goniostoma) seemanni, Mitt, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., iii. Suppl., p. 51 J and in 

 Melliss's St Hel., p. 360. 



St Helena. — Endemic ? Summit of Diana's Peak, &c. — Burchell ; Seemann ; 

 Melliss. 



It is most probable that the specimen of this species from Dickson, marked as from 

 the East Indies, and now preserved in the Kew Herbarium, was really gathered in St 

 Helena. 



Physcomitrium flexifolium, Mitt. 



Phi/scomitrium flexifolium, Mitt, in Melliss's St. Hel., p. 361. 



St Helena. — Endemic. Only collected by Burchell. 



Bartramia (Philonitis) heleniana, Mitt. 



Bartramia (Philonitis) heleniana, Mitt, in Melliss's St Hel., p. 361. 



St Helena.— Endemic. Only collected, by Burchell. 



Very closely allied to, and perhaps not specifically different from, the common 

 Bartramia fonta na. 



Specimens of another species were gathered by Mr Melliss, indicating a small species 



