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bearing broad leaves with a triangularly acute apex, other very 

 slender branches with narrow leaves, specially characterized by 

 being finely and longly acuminate (the apex being sometimes 

 almost filiform) — in fact, presenting exactly the same characters 

 as those found in the Java and Sumatra specimens mentioned 

 above. In Hampe's herbarium there occurs a plant labelled 

 ''A. fim-inen-is C. M. MSS. Rajmehal hills, S. of Sahibgunj, c. 

 500 ft. (S. Kurz). Oct. 1870, no. 2780." On the sheet Hampe 

 has written : '' A. dcvoluto Mitt, proximus," and " Ab A. deroluto 

 Mitt, differt foliis longioribus acuminatis tenuioribus diaphanis 

 perichaetialibus brevioribus celhilis anguste ovalibus magis pellu- 

 cidis." The plant undoubtedly belongs to A. Toccocb (A. devolutus), 

 with which it agrees perfectly m habit, areolation, &c. Another 

 plant in Hampe's herbarium is labelled " Anomodon Fersmanni. 

 Java; Mt. Gedi & Salak ; misit Fersmann." This name is ob- 

 viously a slip for " Teijsmanni " ; the plant is A. Toccoa. 



Outside its recorded distribution we meet with A. Toccom under, 

 I believe, three distinct names. The first is yeckem (Papillaria) 

 scinroidesH^m^Q Enum. Muse. Brasil. 43 (1879) { = A.{Herpetineu' 

 ron) janeirensh C. M. MSS.) from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (Glaziou, 

 no. 9222). On this plant Cardot has already remarked (in Paris' 

 Index Bryolog. Suppl. p. 14), " vix ab A. Toccoa; diflert." These 

 Brazilian examples are mostly fi.agelliferous (in Hampe's diagnosis 

 the description " ramis siccis teretibus curvatis, sciuroideis, inter- 

 dum apice filescentibus " is given), the flagellae in some cases 

 measuring 4 cm. in length. On account of this character it is 

 probable that anyone not having a full series of specimens of 

 A. Toccom available for comparison might hesitate to regard the 

 Brazilian plant as belonging to that species. With a large number 

 of specimens before one, however, it is at once seen that the occur- 

 rence of flagellBS is by no means confined to the Brazilian example 

 of the species ; we find the flagelliferous habit as strongly marked 

 in Ceylon specimens, "Central province, 5000 ft. Thw^aites, no. 254," 

 where many of the branches run out at the apex into a slender 

 thread-like flagella h cm. or more long. The same flagelliferous 

 branches are also to be found in some of the original specimens of 

 "J. dei'olutus'' collected by Wallich in Nepal, the flagella often 

 attaining a length of 2 cm. Subflagelliform branches can also be 

 seen in some examples of the American plant (Muse. Bor. Amer. 

 no. 240). In all other characters (habit, areolation, &c.) " Neckera 

 sciuroides" agrees perfectly with A. Toccoce, and must, I think, be 

 regarded as identical with that species. 



The second name is Anomodon (Herpetineuron) jiagclligernsy 

 which has been given by Miiller (Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 1897, 

 p. 273) to a supposed new Chinese moss. The specific diagnosis 

 contains the characters : — " Bamis brevibus usque ad poUicares 

 accedentibus valde flexuosis apice subcirciuatis tenuibus plus minus 

 remotis simplicibus, sed ex summitate flagella nonnuUa tenerrima 

 viridissima minutifolia exmittentibus." The description concludes 

 with the remark: " Surculo flagellifero ab omnibus congeneribus 

 serratis prima scrutatione distinctissima species." The description 



