154 MR. W. MITTEN ON THE SPECIES ОҒ 
unknown condition of the Bryology of China permits of no comparison being made with 
that vast ап doubtless rich region, nor in the very limited extent of knowledge of the 
Japanese Moss Flora is it possible to compare the species with those of similar latitudes. 
The number of species of the genus Mniwm and also of Macromitrium is remarkable ; аз 
is also the entirely new aspect given to two genera of Hepaticze by the occurrence of 
sacculi in Mastigophora and Blepharozia, of which the known species had previously 
given no indication or expectation; and their presence seems to be a foretaste of other 
strange forms yet awaiting the assiduous collector. | 
In preparing this enumeration valuable help was kindly given by Mr. C. H. Wright, 
.of Kew, who made many extracts of the descriptions of the Species mentioned by Sulli- 
vant and Lesquereux, and also by Mr. A. Gepp, of the British Museum, who extracted 
many portions from Miquel's * Prolusio' and photographed Duby's figures. 
MUSCI. 
BRYOZIPHIUM, Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xii. 580. 
1. B. SavATIERI.— Eustichia Savatieri, Husnot, Rev. Bryol. v. (1883), p. 85, cum icone. 
A small tuft with one capsuliferous stem, ‘Challenger’ Exp. With old capsules all 
deoperculate in September, Nikko, Bisset. 
The capsule of this beautiful Moss is, as suspected by M. Husnot, borne on a seta 
curved in half a spire. Mr. Bisset’s specimens are 4 cm. high, and have the leaves 
abrupt at their points as figured ; in this particular they differ from all the American 
specimens of В. norvegicum. Now that the fruit has been found on both species, and is 
described as gymnostomous, it is possible to surmise that this genus comes nearer to the 
Angstroemiz than to the Fissidentes; for although the leaves of Angstremia vuleanica, 
C. Muell. (Dicranum filiforme, Beauv.), are not distichous, a glance at Schwaegrichen’s 
figure, Supp. ii. t. 122, will show how nearly similar in all other respects these Mosses аге; 
there is the same foliage, short and close below, much lengthened out near the periche- 
tium, the same short seta and elongated antheridia. This species, originally gathered in 
Bourbon, is found also in Jamaica and Peru. 4. Gayana has its upper leaves shorter 
and seta longer, and thus connects 4. Jiliformis with A. julacea and A. longipes; allalike 
have the glossy imbricated foliage as on Bryum Julaceum. 
No species of Angstremia proper has been described from India; but there is a very 
small and slender Moss which seems to stow not unfrequently with Polytricha :— 
А. ORIENTALIS, Sp. n. Caulis erectus ascendensve simplex, rarius furcatus. Folia bifaria 
erecta sese amplexantia, arcte imbricata, oblongo-ovalia, apice marginibus incurvis, 
subacuta seepius asymmetrica, apicibus subsecundis, interdum squarroso-subsecundis, 
costa latiuscula pallida sub apice evanescente, marginibus crenulatis subintegerri- 
misve, cellulis inferioribus subquadratis subrotundisve, superioribus parvis ovalibus 
inter se remotiusculis, parietibus limpidis firmis. Perichætium apicale foliis pluri- 
Bhotan, Griffith; Sikkim, Sir J. D. Hooker and W. Вей; Birma, Kurz. Caulis 
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