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Dedicated to Mr. J. G. Baker, of the Ro}'al Herbarium at Kevv, 

 in grateful acknowledgement of the many kind favors received 

 from him while at work, under his charge, on Dr. Rusby's Ferns 

 and Mosses, and also as a small recognition of the task he accom- 

 plished in mountmg and putting in order the Herbarium of W. P. 

 Schimper, presented to Kew by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. 



This species was first named H. castanea, from the description 

 only, and when submitted to Dr. Miiller he discovered three new 

 species in it; but as we can find but one specimen in our packet, 

 and have no means of determining which of his names apply to 

 our species, we have discarded all his manuscript names. 



HooKERiA PURPUREOPHYLLA CM., n. sp. Near Yungas, 6000 ft. 



1885 (3164). 



Plants small, light reddish brown, .7-1.5 cm. high; stems 

 branched, distichous, or flattened ; leaves small, i mm. long, 

 closely imbricate, appressed with flexuous, filiform spreading 

 points; veins ending below the rounded part of apex, toothed at 

 the back of the leaf above; margins serrate to below the middle, 

 more coarsely so above ; cells papillose, upper wine-color, lower 

 colorless and longer; pedicel purple, 15 mm. long, arched at 

 apex; capsule 2 mm. long; neck tapering; lid conic-rostrate. 

 Peristome not yet matured, torn off with lid. 



Compared with H. {Callicgstelld) mfcsccns Mitt. (Spruce, no. 

 629) from which it differs in the longer acuminate leaves; they 

 also are more slender and not so crisped as those of H. pui'piirea 

 and are too acute for H. incurva. Our plants are mixed with a 

 small, golden yellow Hypmnn in fruit, and a brown Hepatic, but 

 we cannot find the two species of Hookcria, indicated by Dr. Miiller 

 in his letter by two other manuscript names. 



Hookeria crispa CM. Near Yungas, 4000-6000 ft. 1885 (nos. 

 3161 and 3161a). 



Hookeria falcata Hook. Near Yungas, 4000-6000 ft. 1885 

 (3162). 



Braunia canescens Sch. in G. Mandon, Plantae Andium Bolivien- 



sium, Exsicc, no. 1641. Vicinius Sorata, 1858, Mandon. 



Sorata, loooo ft., February, 1886, H. H. R. (no. 3153). 



Plants crowded in brown masses', stems copiously branching, 

 less than 2 cm. high, discolored beneath, green at tips of branches; 

 leaves closely imbricated, lower ones with short white tips, those 

 at the ends of the branches frequently prolonged into flex- 



