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only places on the island where I found Mosses and 
Hepatics having a look of undisturbed nature about them. 
With a shore on which there is no sandy or even pebbly 
strand, and where there are great rocks and accumulations 
of large boulders out of the reach of the tide, there are 
many places where the muscologist would expect to find 
Grimmias flourishing, but there are none, except one httle tuft 
of Grimmia apocarpa. The only species of Orthotrichum 
that I found was 0. diaphanum, of which there is a small 
colony growing on one of the stunted trees in what was 
the garden in front of the dwelling-house. 
The unusual smallness of the few cushions of Campy- 
lopus and Dicranum, which become perfectly dry when 
there has been no rain, accounts for the absence of severa 
Hepatics that elsewhere abound in such companionship. 
Only one colony of Sphagnum was met with (by Mr. 
Praeger), it is near the west end of the island, where two 
species are comparatively abundant over a few square 
yards, these were the only patches of moss of any size that 
I saw. 
My notes and specimens show that the Mosses and Hepa- 
tics of most frequent occurrence were in this order : 
Mosses. 
Hepatics. 
1. Hypnum praelongum. 
I. Lophocolea bidentata. 
2. Barbula fallax. 
2. FruUania tamarisci. 
3. Hypnum rutabulura. 
3. F. dilatata. 
4. Mniuni hornum. 
4. Scapania undulata. 
5. Stereodon resupinatus. 
5. Lepidozia reptans. 
6. Dicranum scoparium. 
6. Anthoceros punctatus. 
List 
OF 
Species. 
Mosses. 
[As in Braithwaite's 
" British Moss-Flora."] 
Polytrichum aloides. 
Ditrichum flexicaule. 
sexangulare. 
tortile. 
piliferum. 
Dicranella curvata. 
juniperinum. 
heteromalla. 
Fissidens viridulus. 
Amisothecium rubrum. 
bryoides. 
var. tenellum. 
