168 МВ. W. MITTEN ON THE SPECIES OF 
eulo gracili elongato pendula oblonga, operculo convexo breviter curvirostrato, 
peristomio dentibus ceraceis. 
With fruit not quite mature in February, Maries; also by Bisset. 
Resembling M. punctatum, but differing in the smaller size of its leaves, which are 
composed of much smaller cells, in the longer and more slender setze, and possibly in its 
empty capsules being sixteen-plicate, a condition observable in the few available for 
examination. With this agree several small specimens collected in N.W. America by 
Douglas and Lyall; the denser areolation is the same, but the American specimens have 
the limb and nerve broader and thicker. 
81. MNIUM RETICULATUM, sp. п. Dioicum. Folia majora orbiculari-obovata, basi 
angusta, margine limbata integerrima, nervo infra apicem rotundatum evanescente, 
cellulis ubique majusculis hexagono-rotundis areolata. Theca in pedunculo elongato 
rubro ovalis, inclinata nutansve. Peristomium dentibus ceraceis, internum fuscum 
Ubago, Hakone, with old fruit in May, Bisset. То this the M. punctatum gathered 
in Sikkim by Sir J. D. Hooker appears to belong. 
Habit, size, and colour of М. punctatum; but the leaves have cells everywhere double 
in diameter those of European М. punctatum. The stems are more branched than is 
usual in the European species, and the capsules are rather smaller. M. punctatum, var. 
B. elatum, mentioned by Miquel, in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. ii. 204, may belong here. 
All the species referable to this section grow in the same manner from a stratum of 
brown interwoven radicles, and have a close resemblance to each other in habit and 
foliage. Тһе bisexual inflorescence sufficed to distinguish JM. subglobosum. ‘There is 
also a curious Indian species—J/. parvulum, Monoicum. Folia comalia spathulato- 
obovata, apice acuta, apiculo brevissimo. Flores masculi in apicibus ramulorum, infra 
periehzetium egredientibus parvifoliis. 
Simla, on dead trees at Fagoo, Griffith, 143. 
Stratum radieulorum rubiginosum latissime extensum panniforme. Caules 3-4 mm. 
alti. Folia majora cireiter 2 mm. longa. Pedunculus 1 em. altus, gracillimus. Flos 
masculus fere gemmiformis, facillime inter folia comalia preetervisus. 
Griffith's specimens are very old, and the capsules are mostly spoiled by insects. Тһе 
fertile stems are so short and small that they are almost covered by the thick mass of 
rootlets. The inflorescence in some stems, when not fully grown out, shows the male 
flowers in a small closed bud ; in others, the leaves surrounding the antheridia, although 
small, are of the usual form. 
This small species, if indeed it is always so small and short-stemmed as in the only 
specimens as yet known, is distinguishable by its inflorescence ; but the distinctions in 
the two Japanese species are not so readily made out. M. reticulatum has larger cells, 
И. striatulum smaller than in M. punctatum. Lindberg says (1. c. р. 228) that his 
specimen from Faxoni, Nippon, agreed exactly with European M. punctatum, but that 
others from Japan did not; and mentions some from Sitka, which are no doubt the 
same species with the British N.W. American, and these latter are remarkable for the 
thick limb; the few capsules seen do not afford any character, being almost exactly alike 
in all the species. | 
