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secondary stems esespitose, not pendulous ; the leaves much longer, 

 undulate when dry, etc. 



The synonymy will stand thus : — 



Sematophyllum replicatum (Hampe) Dixon comb. nov. 

 Hypnum replication Hampe in Nuov. Giorn. bot. ital. iv. 279 



(1872). 

 Sematophyllum pilotrichelloides Card. & Dixon in Records 



Bot. Surv. India, vi. 88 (1914). 



RlGODIUM DEINTATUM Dixon. 



I described this species in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 43 : 79, from 

 "Pretoria, Transvaal, 1914, communicated by the Rev. Hilderic 

 Friend.'' I have since been informed by Mr. Friend that the above 

 labelling was an error, and the locality should have been given as 

 " Cape Town." It seems desirable that this correction should be 

 made known. 



EliRHYNcniuM meridionale in Britain. 



Some slight doubt has been attached to the claim of this species 

 to be a British plant, as no specimens of Mr. Binstead's plant from 

 Wells are to be found in Braithwaite's collection, and it seemed 

 possible that it might have been recorded in error. The figures in 

 Braithwaite's Brit. Moss Flora are without doubt from the true plant, 

 but there was the possibility of these having been drawn from a 

 continental specimen, the more so that Braithwaite figures a fruiting 

 specimen, while Mr. Binstead's plant was sterile. Mr. Binstead has, 

 however, lately found a letter from Dr. Braithwaite stating that the 

 drawings of the leaves, though not of the fertile stem, were made from 

 the Wells plant. And the status of E. meridionale as a British 

 plant has been finally set at rest by its discovery at Portland, Dorset. 

 In 1917 Mr. E. Cleminshaw sent me for confirmation some mosses 

 from the herbarium of the late Wm. West, then in his hands for 

 examination ; one of these proved to be undoubtedly E. meridionale. 

 It was labelled " Eurhynchium meridionale De Not. . . Portland. 

 W. C. P. Medlicott leg., Sep. 1881, teste H. Boswell (as E. striatum 

 var. meridionale).'''' 



This interesting moss was refound at Portland, by Messrs. Sherrin 

 and Chipperfield, on Aug. 21, 1919; the specimen which I received 

 from Mr. Sherrin agrees in all respects with the continental plant. 



Tortula inermis (Brid.) Mont, as a British Plant. 



The evidence for this South European plant as a native of Britain 

 rests entirely on a specimen " Near Cowie Moss, Stirlingshire, coll. 

 Kidston and Col. Stirling, 3 June, 1895 " in Braithwaite's herbarium. 

 This is, however, without doubt due to an unfortunate error on the 

 part of Dr. Braithwaite. The specimen sen© to me belonged un- 

 doubtedly to Tortula inermis; but the locality seemed a most unlikely 

 one. Meeting Dr. Kidston in 1910,1 asked him about the habitat of 

 the plant ; he told me that it was on a tree frequently submerged by 

 a stream. Now this is a quite impossible station for T. inermis, a 

 plant of hot, dry banks in the Mediterranean region ; but is precisely 



