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will be noted, at first sight seems rather suspicious. There is certainly 

 no such mountain as Mouna Kaah in the Sandwich Is., and Lindley 

 was never there nor anywhere near. The specimen clearly raised a 

 ])roblem, which, however, with the assistance of Mr. Skan, I have 

 been able, I think, to settle quite satisfactorily. The name of Lind- 

 ley on the label does not necessarily impl}^ that he was the collector; 

 it may only mean that Hooker received the specimen from him. Now 

 David Douolas visited Hawaii in Jan. 1834, and made the ascent of 

 Mouna Kuah, where, as described at some leno^th in his Diary, he 

 made many observations and collected plants. The mountain is now 

 known as Mauna Kea, but it has gone through various forms of 

 transcription, including Mowna Kaah and Mouna Keah. One of the 

 plants collected by Douglas on Mouna Kuah is referred to by him as 

 '' Argi/ropliyton Douglasil ''''■=: Arcjj/roxiphium sandwicense Hook. 

 Ic. PL t. 75. Now the locality given by Hooker for the plant repre- 

 sented on t. 75 is " Mowna Kaah " ; and among the sheets of that 

 plant at Kew is one in Hooker's herbarium written up by Hooker in 

 precisely the same hand as the label of the Cyrto'pns : — " Monna 

 Raah ; coll. Macrae." The E, is unmistakable ; the final Ji is written 

 so that with scarcely any alteration it might easily be taken for a h. 

 In the label of the Cyrtopus Hooker has gone just a shade further 

 and actually transcribed it as a h. 



A further sheet of the Argt/roxipluuvi, also from the same 

 mountain, coll. Macrae "ad Montem Keah," came from the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Collection. Now Lindley was in close touch with 

 the Hort. Soc, and he was a friend of Douglas. It almost saute aux 

 yeux that Hooker's label of the Cyrtopus indicates that he received 

 the specimen from Lindley, Lindley in his turn having probably 

 received it from the Hort. Soc, to which it came with other plants 

 collected on Maima Kea either by Macrae or Douglas. 1 do not 

 know that Macrae collected mosses at all ; but Douglas was a noted 

 moss collector (cf. Nechera Douylasii Hook.) ; and in his Diary of 

 his ascent of Mouna Kuah he makes more than one reference to the 

 mosses. I think it can scarcely be doubted that this specimen of 

 Oyrtopiis setosus was collected by Douglas on that occasion, and that 

 the distribution of the species in the Sandwich Is. is thorouo-hly 

 established. 



The transitions of spelling which the place-name has undergone 

 are perfectly obvious aud natural when the handwriting is consulted, 

 though less so when shown in the printed character; but the 

 *' phylogeny " of the name may be traced thus : — 



Kaah 



/\ 



/ \ 



Kuah Raah 



/ \ 



Keah Eaab 



/ 



Kea 



