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of the moss above quoted, together with the other characters given 

 in the diagnosis, made me suspect that Miiller was describhig 

 merely the°flagelliferous state of A. Toceom, and this supposition 

 was found to be correct on obtaining, tln-ough the kindness of Dr. 

 P. Hennings, the loan of the original specimen of " ^. JiafjelUgcrnHy 

 This specimen, from "China interior, prov. Schen-si, Sche-kin- 

 tsuen, ad latera montium Tsin-liu ; parce inter alios muscos (J. 

 Giraldi, 28 Dec. 1895, Bryotheca E. Levier, 1896, no. _ 1479)," 

 consists of only a few fragmentary barren stems, and in habit, 

 shape, and areolation of leaf, &c., agrees exactly with slender (often 

 flagelliferous) examples of A. Toccoa from India, Ceylon, Java, 

 Sumatra, and Japan. 



Under the third name we find a more remarkable extension of 

 the range of A. Toccoce. In looking through the species of Anomodon 

 in the Kew Herbarium, I was struck by the resemblance in habit of an 

 African moss named A. robustns Kehm. with that of A. Toccoa, and, 

 after a close comparison of the plants, I have not been able to find 

 any characters by which they can be separated. No description of 

 '' A. rohustiis'' has apparently been publislied ; the specimens were 

 issued, without a diagnosis, in Rehmann's Muse. Austr.-Afric. 

 nos. 639 and 689b, from respectively "Natal; in monte Kwat- 

 lamba ad Laing3neck(Rehmann)," and "Transvaalia : in umbrosis 

 mont. Kwatlamba supra Lydenburg (leg. MacLea)." These African 

 specimens represent a fairly robust state of A. Tocco(e, and in habit 

 and leaf-characters quite agree with the examples collected by 

 Wallich in Nepal, and with specimens from Hongkong. 



It appears, therefore, that the synonymy and distribution of the 

 present species are as follows : — 



Anomodon Tocco.e Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor. Amer. no. 240; 

 Sulliv. Muse. Unit. States, 658 (58 1 (1856); Sulliv. Ic. 

 Muse. 121, tab. 76a (1864) ; Lesq. & James, Man. Moss. N. 

 Amer. 306 (1884) ; Paris, Index Bryolog. (Actes Soc. Linn. 

 Bord. xlvi. 55 (1893)). 

 A. devolutiis Mitt. Muse. Ind. Or. 127 (1859) ; Pans, Index 



Bryolog. (I.e. 53). 

 Neckera {Papillaria) sciuroides Hpe. Enum. Muse. Brasil. 43 



(1879) ; Par. Index Bryolog. (/. c. 1. 150 (1896)). 

 Thamnium Toccocb (Sulliv. & Lesq.), Kindb. Europ. and N. 



Amer. Bryin. i. 44 (1897). 

 A. (Heypetineuron) fJagelligenis C. M. Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 

 n. s. iv. 273 (1897) ; Par. Index Bryolog. Suppl. 14 (1900) 

 (eviove fiag ell if rons). 

 A. janeirensis C. M. MSS. ; Par. Index Bryolog. Suppl. 14 



(1900). ^ ^ 



A. robustus Rehm. Muse. Austr. Afric. nos. 639, 639b; Par. 



Index Bryolog. (Actes Soc. Linn. Bord. xlvi. 55 (1893)). 

 Neckem nepaUnse Tayl. MSS. {fid^ Sulliv. & Lesq.). 

 A. Taijlorl Sulliv. & Lesq. MSS. 



Leskearevohibilis, L. gyrata, and L. circinata^Nih. MSS. 

 A. fascinervis C. M. MSS. 

 A. {Herpetineiu'on) rubig'momlus C. M. MSS. 

 A. Fersmanni [Teysmanni] Hpe. MSS. 



