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Ctenidium malacodes, Mitt, in Journ. Linn. Soo. Hot. xii. (1869), p. 509. 

 Mount Roraima, Ledge, 7500-8000 ft., McConnell Sf Quelch, 340. 

 Found in the mountains of New Granada and Quito. 



LtiSKUACE/E. 



TuuiniUM A NULL ARUM, Bcsch. in Ann. Sc. Nat, St r. VI. iii. (1876), p. 244. 

 Roraima range, 3500 ft., McGonnell Sf Quelch, 5t9. 

 Found in Costa Rica and the West- Indian Islands. 



Thuidium pseudo-protensum, Mitt, in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. xii. (1869), p. 578. 

 Hypnum pseudo-protensum, C. Muell. in Bot. Zeit. vi. (181S), col. 779. 

 Mount Roraima, Ledge, 7500-8000 ft., McConnell Sf Quelch, 348. 

 Found in Vene/aiela. 



SPHAGNACE^]. 



Sphagnum sanguinale, Warnst. in Bot. Centralbl. lxxvi. (1898), p. 385. 



Mount Roraima, Ledge, 7500-8000 ft., McConnell Sf Quelch, 350, 541 in part. 

 Endemic. 



Sphagnum medium, Limpr. in Bot. Centralbl. vii. (1881), p. 313. 



Mount Iloraima, Ledge, 7500-8500 ft., McConnell Sf Quelch, 319, 511 in part. 

 Found in Europe and in America from Labrador to Patagonia. 



HEPATIC^E. By F. Stephani. 



The collection of Liverworts made by Messrs. McConnell and Quelch is a small one, 

 but is of particular interest from a geographical point of view. Many plants were 

 found which hitherto had been only observed in the Andes of South America; their 

 unexpected appearance on the top of Mount Iloraima is quite startling : the curious 

 Frullania mirabilis, Jack et Steph., is of particular interest, as well as the very rare 

 and beautiful Pleurozia paradoxa, Jack, both of which up to this time had not been 

 elsewhere collected. 



It is possible that some of these plants may have intermediate stations of which we 

 are at present ignorant ; but a similar surprising collection was made by Mr. Ule (of 

 the Botanic Garden of Bio Janeiro) in the Serra do Mar and the Serra Itatiaia, where 

 Andine forms were collected, though stations forming connecting-links are altogether 

 missing. 



There are also several new species, amongst which Metzgeria inflala is one of the 

 most curious in the genus, being quite hairless and almost without any rootlets, lying 

 like a small inflated cylindric pouch amongst other mosses. 



As cryptogamic plants, and in particular Liverworts, with few exceptions, have very 

 small spores and live in sheltered and moist places from where the wind cannot easily 



