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MANUAL OF THE NILAGIRI DISTRICT. 



CHAP. VI. 



Flora. 



Tribe XVIII.— Hypne^. 



Fabronia secimda, Mont. 



,, Goughii, Ilitt. 



,, Schmidii, C. Muller. 

 Hypniim discriminatum, Mont. 



„ Wightii, Mitt. 



,, Bonplandi, Mitt. 



,, phimosum, Mitt. 



„ lychnitis, C. 3fiiller. 



,, prociimbens, Mitt, 



,, hiimillimum, 3Iitt. 



,, Biichanani, Hook. 

 Rhegmatodon orthostegius, Mont- 

 Trachypus crispatulus, Mitt. 



Trachj'pus bicolor, ScJnv. 



,, atratus, Mitt. 



,, Biichanani, C. MiiUer. 



,, plicfefolius, C. Miiller. 



„ brevirameus, C. Miiller. 



Tbuidium cymbifolium, Doztj and M. 



„ glaucinum, Mitt. 



„ blepbarophylla, C. Miiller. 



„ pristocalyx, C. Muller. 



„ tamariscella, G. Miiller. 



Plcuropus Nilagiriensis, Mitt. 

 Leskea consanguinea, Mont, 

 „ prionophylla, Mitt. 



Tr:be XIX. — Skitophylle^. 



Fissidens anomaliis, Mont. 



Schmidii, C. Miiller. 



Fissidens serratus, C. Muller. 



„ Ceylonensis, Dozy and M, 



Tribe XX. — Polytriche.'e. 



Pogonatum Neesii, C. Miiller. 

 „ microstomum, £r. 



„ aloides, Brid. 



Pogonatum hexagonum, Mitt. 

 Polytrichum perichtutiale, Mo>d. 



Tribe XXI. — Bitxhaimie.?;;. 

 Diphyscium sp. | Diphyscium sp. 



LICHENALES. 



Lichens. There are numerous lichens on these hills, but they have never been worked out. 



— Fungi. 



Books of 

 reference. 



Introduced 

 plants. 



FUNGALES. 

 Fungi are numerous, but little is known about them. 



The above is a complete catalogue of the flowering plants, 

 ferns, and mosses of the Nilagiris as at present known. The 

 descriptions are nowhere to be found in a collected form, though 

 " The Flora of British India " by Dr. Hooker (very slowly 

 progressing) will in time supply this want. For the present, the 

 student must consult Wight and A.rnott's " Prodromus " and 

 DeCandolle's " Prodromus " for most of the plants ; for the 

 orchids. Dr. Lindley's '^ Genera and Species Orchidacete " and his 

 papers in the Linnaean Journal; for the grasses Kunth's "Enume- 

 ratio Plantarum " and SteudeFs " Syn. PL Gram. ; " and for the 

 mosses the works of Miiller and Mitten. 



Very many of the flowering plants are figured in Dr. Wight's 

 " Icones,'' and most of the trees and shrubs, or at least one or more 

 of each genus, in Colonel Beddome's " Flora Sylvatica,'' aod all 

 the ferns in Colonel Beddome's " Ferns of Southern India " and 

 " Ferns of British India,'^ all of which works arc to be found 

 in the Ootacamand Library. 



The list does not include introduced plants. The Australian 

 EacaJijj)ti and Acacias have given quite a new character to Oota- 



