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Distribution. — N. America: U.S.A.: Northern Georgia, Toccoa 

 Falls (Lesquereux) ! 



S. America : Brazil, Kio Janeiro (Glaziou, no. 9222) ! 



Asia : India : Nepal (Wallich), c. fr. ! ; Khasia, Moflong (Hb. 

 Griffith, no. 3) ! ; Khasia, Kollong (Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. & Thom- 

 son) ! i'Kashmir (Little Thibet), Nubra, alt. 11,000 ft., coll. T. Thom- 

 son (Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. & Thomson) ! ; Chota, Nagpore 

 (Ball) ! ; Binsar, 7-8000 ft. (Strachey) ! ; Dehra Dun district, San- 

 sidhara, 3000 ft., Oct. 1895 (J. F. Duthie), c. fr. ! ; N.W. Hima- 

 laya, Jaunsar district, below Kathyan, 5-6000 ft., May 17, 1893 

 (J. F. Duthie, no. 12,929), c. fr. ! ; Rajmehal hills, S. of Sahibgunj, 

 c. 500 ft. (S. Kurz, Oct. 1870, no. 2780) !. 



Ceylon: Central prov. 5000 ft. (Thwaites, no. 251) !. 



Sumatra ! 



Java : Mt. Gede and Salak (Teysmann) ! 



Celebes (Lacoste) I 



China: City wall, Ningpo (Oldham, .June, 1861)!; Hongkong, 

 1879 and 1889 (G. Ford, nos. 223, 282) ! ; prov. Schen-si, Sche- 

 kin-tsuen, ad latera montium Tsin-liu (J. Giraldi, 28 Dec. 1895) ! 



Japan: (Moseley, 'Challenger' Expedit., April-May, 1875) ! ; 

 Nagasaki (J. G. Veitch) ! ; Shikoku & Tosa (Makino) (fide Bro- 

 therus). 



Africa : Natal ; in monte Kwatlamba ad Laingsneck (Reh- 

 mann) ! ; Transvaal ; in umbrosis mont. Kwatlamba supra Lyden- 

 burg (MacLea) !. 



(19). AxoMODON tristichus Schimp. MSS. 



Jaeger, Adumbr. ii. 306 (1878) ; Par. Index bryolog. (Actes Soc. 

 Linn. Bord. xlvi. 55 (1893). — The moss bearing this name in 

 Schimper's herbarium, from " Gronekloof, Cape of Good Hope," 

 proves, on examination, to be identical with Triquetrella tristichaC. M. 

 in Ost. Bot. Zeit. 1897, p. 422 (Zygodon tristichus C. M. in Bot. Zeit. 

 1855, p. 764). 



(20). African Mosses. 



The following species of mosses have been collected on the Gold 

 Coast by Mr. W. H. Johnson, Curator, Botanic Gardens, Gold 

 Coast ; and at Old Calabar by Mr. J. H. Holland, late Curator of 

 the Botanic Gardens, Old Calabar. The specimens are in the Kew 

 Herbarium. 



Gold Coast : Octohlepharum albidum Hedw., c. fr., on soil in axils 

 of palm-leaves, swamps near Aburi, Jan. 1901 ; Plagiothecium 

 aptijchopsis C. M., c. fr., Aburi, Jan. 1901 ; Huokeria (Gallic ostella) 

 africana Mitt., rocks, waterfall, Aburi, Jan. 1901 ; Xeckera disticha 

 Hedw.,c. fr.,on trees in swamps, E. Akim, Dec. 1900; Ectropothecium 

 {Vesicularia) oreadelphum (C. Miill.) Broth., c. fr., swamps, Aburi, 

 Jan. 1901 ; Thuidium involvens (Hedw.) var. Thomeanum Broth. 

 (= T. petradelphus C. Miill. in sched.), rocks, Aburi, Jan. 1901 ; 

 T. gratum (P. Beauv.) Jaeg. (= T. micropteris C. Miill. in Dusen 

 Muse. Afric. nr. 65), c. fr., rocks, Aburi, Jan. 1901 ; Thamnium 

 leptopteris C. Miill., clinging on rocks, M'praesu Hills, 1700 ft., April, 

 1900; Syrrhopodon disciformis Dusen., M'praesu Hills, 1700 ft., 

 April, 1900. 



