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elongate rectangulares, perpellucidoe ; superiores pagina dorsali 

 papillis majusculis 2-4, seriatim dis-positis, pellucidis plei'umque 

 inconspicuis praeditae, parietibus omnibus tenuissimis ; cellula) ad 

 marginem 2-3 seriebus angustissime lineares, limbum i^&vc^'ngustum 

 optime (lefiniUim flavescentem per totmn folii amhitnm efi'ormantes. 

 Seta ad 1 cm. longa, inferne rubra, superne flavida ; theca breviter 

 cylindrica vel angustissime elliptica, castanea, collo perbrevi dis- 

 tincto, opei'culo rostrato, tertiam partem tbecae aequante. Calyptra 

 cucullata, saepius scaberula. Exothecii cellulse regulares, rectan- 

 gulares, in seriebus longitudinalibus dispositae, orificium versus 

 nonullae aliquot breviores, vix quadratae ; stomata sat numerosa, 

 magna. Annulus latus, bene evolutus, ut videtur longe persistens. 

 Peristomium generis. Sporae 8-10 ft, laeves, virides. Dioicum, vel 

 potius revera rhizantoicum ; fl. masc. terminales, in caulibus cum 

 femineis intermixtis, aetate propriis, imprimis verisimiliter e cauli- 

 bus fertilibus ortis sitae. 



Hab. On walls and mortar, very common, Purandhar, Poena 

 District, Oct. 1910; leg. Sedgwick (no. 119) c. fr. 



A verj^ distinct plant, and one somewhat difficult to place in Pot- 

 tiacece, the fruiting characters being very nearly those of HyoiMla, 

 while the areolation is rather Pottioid. The capsule, however, 

 is not gymnostomous, as the basal part of a peristome is quite 

 distinctly present, though reduced to very small dimensions. The 

 leaves, bluntly pointed, extremely thin and pellucid, with lax thin- 

 walled cells and a narrow, distinct, not thickened border, are, at 

 first sight, suggestive of EntostJiodon, whence the specific name. 

 The papillae, of course, at once distinguish them, but they are 

 frequently inconspicuous, and often (except in profile) masked by 

 the chlorophyll ; in their well-developed condition and on empty 

 cells, on the other hand, they are very distinct, and their arrange- 

 ment a very unusual one in this family ; the only close resem- 

 blance that I remember seeing being in the lower cells of one or 

 two New Zealand species of Tortula (e. g. T. Petricei Broth, and 

 T. rubra Mitt.). 



Ancectangium Steacheyanum Mitt. Earth-banks, Fort Puran- 

 dhar, Poena District, May, 1910 ; leg. Sedgwick (nos. 81, c. fr. ; 

 89, a dense, yellow, sterile form, with closely curled leaves when 

 dry ; 106, c. fr., a vivid green form ; 107, a rather robust, sterile 

 form). Near Binsar, Almora, 1910 ; leg. Miss E. Shepheard 

 (no. 14), c. fr. 



A. Walkeei Broth. On stones, Panchgani", W. Ghats, Feb. 

 1909 ; leg. Sedgwick (no. 44), st. ; teste Brotherus. The cells are 

 very short quite to base, only a very few at extreme base next the 

 nerve shortly rectangular. 



A. Thomsoni Mitt. Binsar, Almora, 1910 ; leg. Miss E. 

 Shepheard (no. 12), c. fr. A robust plant, closely resembling in 

 habit Trichostomum mutabile Bruch. It should be noted that 

 Wilson's name {A. crispulum) cannot be maintained, being only a 

 nomen nudum. 



A. BicoLOR Ren. k Card. " Taulea, India, 12-13,000 ft., 



