MUSCI AND HEPATICA RECORDED FROM JAPAN. 198 
DIPHYSCIUM, Mohr. 
212. D. FULVIFOLIUM, Sp. n. Caulis brevissimus. Folia inferiora spathulato-ligulata, 
apice obtusa, mucrone brevissimo, dimidio inferiore pallido, elongate areolato, sub- 
pellucido, superiore cellulis densis obscuro, margine apicem versus minute crenulata, 
nervo lato concolore percursa; superiora patentia duplo longiora, basi pallidiore 
breviore, nervo crassiore, in mucronem plus minus elongatum excurrente ; peri- 
cheetialia plurima a basi brevi lanceolato-subulata integra, nervo crasso ubique 
scaberrimo fulvo sensim attenuato excurrente. Theca parva, leptodermis ; peristomio 
pallido inferno carinis pluribus pliceeformibus. 
‘Challenger’ Exp. 
Habit and size that of D. foliosum ; but with longer perichetial leaves, and those of 
the stem have not so dense an areolation. 
TETRAPHIS, Hedw. 
213. Т. GENICULATA, Girgens. 
А few stems on decayed wood, * Challenger’ Exp. 
ANDREA, Ehrh. 
214. А. PETROPHILA, Ehrh. ? 
One or two stems amongst Grimmia, Nantaizan, Bisset. 
SPHAGNUM, Dill. 
215. S. GIRGENSOHNII, Russ. 
Shiranesan, Bisset. 
216. S. CYMBIFOLIUM, Ehrh., was gathered by Siebold. 
НЕРАТІСЖ. 
; PLAGIOCHILA, Nees et Mont. 
1. P. OVALIFOLIA, sp.n. Caulis ascendens arcuatus, ramis etiam arcuatis divisus. Folia 
distiche explanata patenti-divergentia, late ovalia, inferne dorso convexa, margine 
dorsali breviter decurrente e medio ad apicem rotundatum, margineque ventrali ad 
basin usque dentibus brevibus acutis approximatis armata, e cellulis parvis rotun- 
datis limitibus angustioribus cinctis areolata ; involucralia eonformia, dentibus 
apiealibus ventralibusque majoribus. Perianthium oblongo-obovatum, labiis rotun- 
datis dentatis. | 
Fragments gathered amongst Mosses by Maingay ; Maries; and at Nikko by Bisset. 
Caulis 1-2-uncialis, cum foliis ubi latius expansis 7 mm. latus. Folia 3 mm. longiora, 
2 mm. lata. Perianthium foliis involucralibus sequilongis compressum, labiis versus 
medium eorum longitudinis in angulum obtusum ascendentibus, inde ad latus ventrale 
profundius fissum descendentibus. 
All the fragments of this, until the perianth had been found, were supposed to belong 
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