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mistaken for the nerve itself; the true pagina of the leaf, as in the Leucobryoe, being in all 

 these mosses distinguishable for the most part only at the base. 



The genus Leucophanes was founded by Bridel on Leucophanes octoblepharoides, 

 Leucophanes sguarrosum, and Leucophanes fragile; its essential character being the six- 

 teen teeth of the peristome, which distinguished it from Octoblepharum as then known. 

 Now, however, with species closely resembling Octoblepharum albidum, except in having 

 sixteen teeth in their peristome, it is evident that the eight teeth in Octoblepharum albidum 

 are but coherent pairs of the normal number of peristomial teeth, analogous instances of 

 which occur in Orthotrichum, and therefore any distinction on this character is of small 

 value. 



Octoblepharum (Leucophanes) octoblepharoides, Mitt. 



Leucophanes octoblepharoides, Brid., Bryol. Univ., i. p. 763; C. Mull., Synopsis Muse. Frond., i. p. 82. 



Admiralty Islands. — Small barren stems, scattered among other mosses. India, and 

 throughout the Malayan Archipelago. 



Octoblepharum (Leucophanes) densifolium, Mitt. 



Octoblepharum (LeucopTianes) densifolium, Mitt, in Bonplandia, 1801, p. .360. 

 Admiralty Islands. — Also found in the Fijis. 



Growing in large tufts on trees overhanging the sea. Similar to Octoblepharum 

 sguarrosum in size, but the foliage is not divaricate. 



Octoblepharum (Leucophanes) smaragdinum, Mitt. 



Octoblepharum {Leucophanes) smaragdinum, Mitt, in Bonplandia, 1861, p. 366. 



Admiralty Islands. 



The fruit of this is not yet known ; the species is found in the Samoan, Solomon, and 

 Fiji Islands, in the Ellice group, in Palmerston Island, and also in the Philippines. The 

 description of Leucophanes albescens, C. Mull, in Bot. Zeit., 18G4, p. 347, appears to 

 indicate another similar or perhaps the same species ; but its particularly distinctive 

 character as given — Folia siccitate crispatula nervo validissimo oculis nudis nitore jam 

 distincto robusta — scarcely agrees with a moss with foliage, very slightly or not at all con- 

 torted, each leaf being straight in direction, but twisted and with the carina prominent, 

 the whole upper portion being only of two strata of cells. 



This is not enumerated by C. Midler in his list of the Samoan and Vitian species, but 

 he describes three others, which brings up his number to the same as that included in the 

 Flora Vitiensis, and he divides the species in the following manner, considering all the 

 species, with the exception of Arthrocormus dentatus, as a species of Leucophanes :—Trachy- 

 notus, containing Octoblepharum asperum and Octoblepharum sod/rum; Leionotus, con- 



