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described by Montague in Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 8-11, but this 

 number is not referred to, though the adjoining ones (2208, 2210) 

 are cited. 



The plant was collected again by llobinson on Mt. Banajao, and 

 recorded as Myurium Foxworthyii Broth, in Philip]). Journ. Sci. v. 

 152 (1910), and again in the same locality and by the same col- 

 lector ; as far as I am aware, these are the only records of this very 

 rare and beautiful moss, and it seems worth while putting Cuming's 

 plant on record. Boswell's specimen is in the Herbarium of Oxford 

 University. 



FONTIXALIS IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



Hitherto no sp3ci.es of Foiifiiialis has been recorded from South 

 Africa. The peculiar monotypie and endemic genus TVardia of the 

 Cape is the only representative of the family. Recently, however, 

 Mr. T. Ii. Sim, of Maritzburg, has received a specimen of F. anti- 

 pyretica Linn, from Miss Dutliie gathered in June 19 IS in some 

 abundance, submerged in the mill-stream at Stellenbosch, Cape 

 Province. It is not the typical form of the species, but a fairly 

 common form with the leaves bluntly keeled, or sometimes scarcely 

 at all keeled (approaching the var. cymbi folia Nicholson). Mr. Sim 

 suggests that it has been introduced, perhaps by migratory birds, as 

 several other northern water plants have been. Whatever the actual 

 mode of transit, it seems pretty certain that it is a more or less recent 

 introduction, and is likely to spread itself over the province, though 

 as the plant is dioicous, it will probably have to be by vegetative 

 means. The specimen sent me is possibly the $ plant, as I have 

 failed to find S flowers, which, when present, are usually on the 

 upper part of the stems and conspicuous. 



HlPNUM SECUNDIFOLIUM C. M. 



Hook. f. & Wils. in the PI. Antarctica, ii. 120, refer a sterile 

 plant of Hooker's collecting, from Hermite I., Cape Horn, to 

 Hypuum lithophiluin Hornsch. C. Mueller (Syn. ii. 313) places it, 

 under the name H. secundifolium, after the species of Hypnuvi, 

 subsect. Aptychtis with nerve double or 0, as being of uncertain 

 position from want of information about the alar cells, adding the 

 sign indicating that he had not seen the plant. Mitten (Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, Bot. xii. 181) places it under Sematopliyllum, sect. Rhaphidor- 

 rhynchum, as Sematophylluin secundifolium. Jaeger, followed by 

 Paris and Brotherus, places it under Rhapliidosteyium as R. secundi- 

 folium (C. M.) Jaeg. 



Fairly good specimens of the Hermite Island plant are in both 

 the Kew and British Museum collections. It is a robust plant, 

 larger than an3 r Rhaphidostegium I know, with divided stems, 

 apparently erect, the divisions of which attain 8 cm. or more. The 

 leaves are strongly secund, ovate-oblong, rounded at the apex and 

 obtuse or bluntly pointed, very concave with the margins retlexed or 

 platter-edged, or widely recurved in the lower half; the nerve double, 

 reaching from | to g the height of the leaf. The cells are extremely 

 narrow, linear-vermicular, with firm walls ; gradually becoming 

 slightly wider and more incrassate towards base, the alar forming a 

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