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HYPNUM UNCINATUM Hedw., var. suBJULACEUM Sch., forma Hol- 
zingeri Ren Forme voisine de la forme orthothecioides Lindb.; en 
différe par la couleur verte, les touffes compactes encombrées de terre 
4 la base, l’acumen plus court denticulé et le tissu plus délicat, non 
€paissé.— Base of Sperry glacier. 
Minor extensions of range will be noted in a fuller report on this 
collection.— Joun M. Houzincer, Winona, Minn. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. 
(Nachet’s objectives 3 and 6, oculars 1 and 3, with camera lucida. All 
drawings are reduced % in photo-engraving.) 
1. Dicranowetsia subcompacta. a, entire plant, nat. size ; 4, 4, 4, 6, leaves, 
X 32; ¢, basal areolation x 135; @, marginal areolation in the middle X 135; 
¢, point of a leaf x 135. 
the same of B. aciphylla from a specimen of Styria X 285. 
‘yp~num Cardots. a, entire plant, nat. size; 4, 6, 6, leaves X 32; ¢, 
marginal areolation in the middle X 285; d, capsule X 13. 
NOTES OF TRAVEL. III. 
RIO AND PETROPOLIS, BRAZIL. 
‘oe : Professional traveler and to a botanist Rio de Janeiro and 
"polis have more to offer than any other easily accessible place in 
Ny America, Mr. Barbour Lathrop, with whom the writer has the 
ae traveling as assistant, is familiar with many of the pictur- 
] © spots in the world, and even to him the region about Rio was a 
Most agreeable surprise. 
. Pit ies together in 1897 the harbor of Sydney, Australia, which 
id pepared with that of Rio, and were able to draw 
Sydne oe ich are decidedly favorable to Rio. 
row, gy arbor is long and, in comparison with that of Rio, nar- 
and which reat number of small coves separated by sharp points of 
of t jut out into the stream. These points of land, each side 
nate with the coves opposite, like the teeth of a 
. - harbor, alter 
ark. Th, ae 
ese low and rounded hilly points are covered with Australian 
