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Hypnum (Rhynchostegium) praelongum, Linn. 



Eypnum (Rhynchostegium) jir&longtim, Linn., Sp. PL ed., p. 1591 ; C. Mull., Synop. Muse. Frond., 

 ii p. 446 ; Mitt, in Melliss's St Hel., p. 365. 



St Helena. — Indigenous ? Collected by Haughton and Melliss. 



All over Europe ; also in Madeira, South America, &c. 



Hypnum (Brachythecium) athrocladum, Mitt. 



Eypmim (Brachythecium) athrocladum, Mitt, in Melliss's St Hel., p. 365. 



St Helena. — Endemic. 

 Only collected by Burchell. 



Fissidens helenicus, Mitt. 



Fissidens helenicus, Mitt, in Melliss's St Hel., p. 366, t 56, fig. A. 



St Helena. — Endemic. Burchell ,■ Haughton. 



This is perhaps the Fissidens chioneurus, C. Mull., in Linnsea, xxxvii. p. 167, a species 

 described from a St Helena specimen. 



HEPATIC^. 

 Plagiochila insularis, Mitt. 



Plagiochila insularis, Mitt, in Melliss's St Hel., p. 366. 



St Helena. — Endemic. Haughton; Melliss. 



Fragments of another species, like very small states of Plagiochila spinulosa, have 

 been seen from St Helena. 



Jungermannia obtusata, Tayl. 



Jungermannia obtusata, Tayl. in Hook., Lond. Journ. Bot., 1845, p. 80; Mitt, in Melliss's St Hel., 

 p. 367. 



St Helena. — Endemic. Hooker; Haughton. 



G. L. S. (Synop. Hepat., p. 664) reduces this to Jungermannia subcomplicata. 



Lophocolea humistrata, Tayl. 



Lophocolea humistrata, Tayl. in Hook., Lond. Journ. Bot., 1845, p. 82; Mitt, in Melliss's St Hel., 

 p. 367. 



St Helena. — Endemic. Hooker; Haughton. 



Lophocolea bidentata, Nees. 



Lophocolea bidentata, Nees, Hepat. Eur., ii. p. 327 ; G. L S., Synop. Hepat., p. 159. 



St Helena. — In large patches, but barren — Mrs Wilde. 



(bot. chall. bxp. — part il — 1884.) B 14 



