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vigorous than the Greeks themselves." Oddly enougli, these same 

 writers who must sLii^piy the aspirate to the e omit it from the v, and 

 write racJiii^ and raplic, instead of rlmchii^ and rJiapJie,- — wliich is exasp- 

 erating to lovers of uniformity. 



x'^ Some New Mrsci, by C. F. Austin. — Neckera (Orthostichella) 

 LuDOVici^, C. M. — Muller's diagnosis of this species was founded on 

 depauperate sterile specimens. It w^as found in fine condition in 

 p]ast Florida two years ago, by Capt. J. Donnell Smith, where it ap- 

 pears to be abundant. It is robust and ([uite different in appearance 

 from X. ct/}vh/foli)imj the stems being longer and usually furnished 

 with numerous short branches. Leaves fulvous green, abruptly acu- 

 minate, papillose; cells linear, tlexuose. Pericha^tial leaves with 

 much elongated, abrupt hair-like eroded points. Some of the para- 

 physes leaf-like. Capsule elliptico-ovate, erect, tapering at the base, 

 narrowed at the apex, solid, smooth, on a stout minutely roughened 

 pedicel about 6 lines long; annulus ; operculum convex or very 

 shortly rostellate ; peristomal teeth short and imperfect, linear, hya- 

 line, subpapillose, incurved ; calyptra with erect hairs. — X. rj/iubifn- 

 liiini is also abundant in East Florida, but has not yet been found in 

 fruit. 



Hypnum (Riiynchostegium?) Caloosiknse, n. sp. — A^toicum, pros- 

 tratum ; caule intricato 2-3 uncias longo sat copiose subpinnatim ra- 

 moso paraphyllato, foliis sub-complanatis late suboblique ovatis sub- 

 acuminatis, margine integerrima apicem versus obsoleteve serrulata 

 plana vel inferior! versus basin late incurva, costa gemella pro more 

 distincta longiuscula hand raro ad medium producta, cellulis p2rlaxis 

 rhomboideo-fusiformibus rectis ; paraphyliis conspicuis longe subula- 

 tis subfasciculatis; capsula late ovali in pedicello hi^vi subunciali 

 pendulasiccitate sub ore lato valde constricta basi valde obtusa: flores 

 cauligeni parvi ; bracteis acuminatis, acumine recurvo; paraphysibus 

 paucis brevibus. 



Low hummocks, along the Caloosahatchie River, Florida, March, 

 1878. J. B. ,S'. and C. F. A. 



In some respects like both //. dcplanatum, Schimp. and //. micans, 

 Swartz; but it is readily distinguished from the former by its aidtoi- ii 

 cous inflorescene, shorter pointed entire leaves, and much longer en- / 

 tire paraphyllia ; from the latter by its more obsoletely serrated 

 leaves, and by the presence of paraphyllia on the stem ; and from 

 both by its darker green coljr, subpinnately and more copiously 

 branched stems, much more loosely areolated leaves with the lower 



