228 RECENT ADDITIONS TO OUR MOSS FLORA. 



in favour of T)llriclinm. Besides the following l>ntish species, D. pul- 

 Udiim and D. raginans are European. 



1. D. tmne, llauipc, Flora, 1867, p. 182. TricJwslomum lenue, 

 Iledwig, Sp. Muse. (Plate CIX. fig. 3.) — Dioicous, dwarf, branched. 

 Leaves from an erect base, patent or secund, narrowly lanceolate, up- 

 permost lanceolate subulate ; perichsetial sheathing for half their length, 

 quite entire. Capsule oblong, erect, or a little curved ; lid conic, ros- 

 trate. /3. glaciale ; in long, broad tufts, with broader, erecto-patent 

 leaves. — Canlochan and Mael Girdy, 1863 (Eev. J. M. Crombie). Clova 

 (Mr. Fergusson). Tall, barren tufts, referred by Mr. Wilson to var. ^. 



2. D. pusiU am, T'lmm. 3. D. 7iomomallum,llam^e. 4-. B.JIexicaule, 

 Hampe. 5. I), f/laucescens, Hampe. 6. D. subulatum, Hampe (Ply- 

 mouth, Mr. Holmes, 1868). 



1. Oncophorm strumifer, Bridel, Bryol. Univ. p. 395, Dicranum 

 stnimiferum, Ehrt. Ci/iiodo)dium iwlycarpum, /?. struniiferum, Sch. 

 Syn. Muse. Eur. p. 62. — This is again to be restored to the rank of a 

 species, as it differs from 0. polycarpus in the capsule being more or 

 less cernuous, constantly strumose at base, with a compound annulus, 

 and in the leaves having papillse only on the upper surface. I do 

 not see how the name Oynodontimn can be retained for these species, 

 since it was established by Hedwig for C. capillaceum and C. inclina- 

 iitm in 1801, which Professor Schimper in 1845 formed into the genus 

 Distichimn, and transferred the name Cynodontiiun to Dulymodon Brun- 

 toni. As 0. polycarpufi and 0. strumifer formed a part of Bridel's 

 genus Oiicophoriis, and difl'er sufficiently in leaf-structure to be separated 

 from Dkranum, I think it will be in accordance with the law of priority, 

 to retain that genus, and leave Cynodontium for the species on which 

 it was founded. 



1. Blindia acuta, Br. and Sch., var. iricJtodes, Braithw. ras. Di- 

 cranum trichodes, Wilson. — This quite accords with B. acuta, in habit 

 and in structure of leaf; the leaves, however, are longer and more 

 falcate. Wet rocks near Bolton (J. Whitehead). 



1. Dic7-anum gIaciale,^^r^gx&\\,A.ci?i Univ. Lund. 1865. B. arcticiim, 

 Sehimpcr, Muse. Eur. Novi, fasc. 3. B. Starkii, /3. j??o/Ze, Wilson, Bry. 

 Brit. p. 74. — Monoicous, in wide tufts, without radicular tomentura, 

 yellowish-green above, brownish below, erect, 2-5 in. high. Leaves 

 erecto-patent, straight, glossy, lowest minute, lanceolate, nerveless, 

 upper oblong at base, lanceolate-subulate, deeply concave, with the 



