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and is liable to be passed over for L, perenne. It may be 

 distinguished by the seabrid raehis, but is connected with the 

 type by an intermediate state, which has some of the flowering 

 glumes shortly awned. A very variable species ; when growing 

 under luxuriant conditions, as it does at Kew, the spikes often 

 become branched. 



L. perenne x italicum. A grass which Dr. K. Domin thought 

 was this combination was not uncommon at Kew last August 

 wherever the parents occurred. 



Selaginella krausiana, A. Br. Occurs in a naturalised condition 



in the Rhododendron dell and in the Rockery. Is not uncommon 

 naturalised in warm parts of Devon and Cornwall. A native of 

 Cape Colony, Fernando Po, Azores, &c. 



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MUSCINEAE. 



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Decranoweisia cirrata, Lindb. This wumivu «!**;«*» uau uui 



been known to fruit in the gardens nntil Mr. Nicholson found it 



in amall ftno«+Ui» a« aT~ ^ l t * ,, ^ ^ . . 



common 



Grounds. In a barren state it has 



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??-^i rU1 i 0ak ancl elm - Thi8 is a Sequent species in the 



Midlands, sometimes covering thatched roofs with its green 



cushions which bristle with capsules. It is however somewhat 

 erratic m its distribution, and is still unrecorded from Cambridge, 

 store Norfolk. It is very rare or extinct in Oxford- 



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Barbula tophacea i Mitt. On blocks of Oolite by the small pond 

 l° tD * Himalayan House or Korth win S of ^e Temperate House. 

 Marsh Gm^cestereh^ 6 *** Bt ° ne W&S brought from Moreton-in- 



intTnlnt?!^ °* Muell . er - s ame habitat as the last and doubtless 

 introduced at the same time. 



NictTson°fS : Wriehtii ' G : M ^ller. In August last Mr. 

 hacl somTw W h. I £f ,° f £ e forcing h ouses a moss which : 

 ^^t^^^^/ i88id ^^ «ood fruit on woody 

 leclon sent It? n&PW 1 *-* tropical African Monocoty- 

 M cro^conk f««i„ B ?. tlBh ,° entlal Africa b y Mr. J. McCIounie. 

 ZZ c C! ,tl0ri t°r d that this ™>ss belonged to the 

 ^roSSS^SS^^^ »"* f ntirel >' o f tropical and 

 1007, p. 81) described »n««T Dl - X01 \ who re c e ntly (Journ. Bot., 

 alien ^iickwoikfn er u^ ec : ies ' S ' Micatulum, found as ar 



on seeing a n^oTZ^f ^TV* BaMer8b y Park ' Yorks 

 u_i , & " °F5> UIien ol the Kew nnvfiH.Tr ail «^ ^,i +u„* .-4. — i^.Vwj 



might 

 Wien.. 



Koyal Botanic GardZm P6C1 - e8 ' ^ blcb was also detected in the 

 ia^ceT^fe^ 16 ^. Dubli ?> ^ere it was no doubt 

 Braithwaite (Journ . fc^fe gff ^scribed and figured by 

 with drawings of the w « a } ' , lne Kew P lant agrees well 

 Mr. W. R. S f errin m s l 0f ™? "J^on of S. Wrightii, which 

 Museum materia? Tolled I ^ *? make for me from British 

 however, to whom T all I ^ lght in Cuba ' » r - Brotherus, 

 undescribed moss, point i™ ™t- a J 8 P eci men, considers it an 



oss, pointing out in addition that the habitat was 



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