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1 have purposely given all these details; they are distinctive of the 
age in which we live. It is a practical, commercial, unpoetical period, 
when commonplace railway trucks carry off romance—in tlie shape of 
Mistletoe—at so much per ton! Had good Sir Walter Scott lived in 
these days, it would never have occurred to him to send his “ merry 
men” to the ** woods" for it,—where, by the way, they would never 
have found it,—but the Mistletoe none the less would have reached 
him; and if he had chanced to look over his greengrocer's bill, he 
would, doubtless, have found some such items as these :— 
To a bunch of Mistletoe, fine and full of berries. £1 0 0 
To pieces of ditto ditto, for decoration . . . 0 7 6 
- DASFMITRIUM, NOVUM GENUS ORTHOT ARUM. 
Avcrore S. O. LINDBERG, M.D. 
DasyurrRIUM.— Calyptra cucullato-dimidiata, plicata, basi integer- 
rima, filis densissimis longis vestita, maximam partem capsule obte- 
gens. Peristomium simplex, a dentibus sedecim incurvis, haud tra- 
beculatis maxime papillosis, linea divisurali sat distincta donatis, 
formatum.—Planta repens, ramulis brevissimis, crassis, erectis. 
ss. Hoc novum distinctissimum genus a Macromitrio, Brid., 
Schlotheimia, Brid., et Cryptocarpo, Doz. e& Molk., optime diversum 
est calyptra eucullato-dimidiata ; a Zygodonte, Hook. et Tayl., calyptra 
plicata, dense vestita, capsula subobliqua, caule longe repente, ut et 
a Drummondia, Hook., calyptra, capsula, dentibus haud trabeculatis, 
crassis, densissime papillosis, etc. 
l. D. incurvum, Lindb.— Hab. In saxis insule Tschu-sehan (30? 
lat. bor.), imperii Chinensis, Hedwigie albicanti (G. H. Web., Lindb.*) 
associatum, anno 1862 legit navarchus Suecicus Z. dhistrom. 
* Hujus synonyma sun 
Vaill. Botan. Juris. p. 128, n. 3; tab. 27, fig. 18 (1727). 
Sphagnum nodosum, hirsutum f incanum, Dill. Hist. Muse. p. 246, tab. 22, fig. 5 
ain. 
B apocarpum, B, Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 2, i. p. 1115 (1753) ; a, Huds. Fl. 
Ap mg E p.4 403 (1762). 
ciliatum, Dicks. Plant. Crypt. Brit. fase. iv. p. 6 (180 
p ias allies ns, G. H. Web. Spicil. Fl. Gótt. p .88 (1 DT y 
Hedwigia an 'Ehrh. in Hanuov. Mag. 1781, p. 1095, et Beitr. i, p. 172 
(1787). 
