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 A THIRD LIST OF MOSSES FROM WESTERN INDIA. 



BY 



L. J. Sedgwick, I.C.S. 



Reference is invited to the first and second lists published in this 

 Journal on 28th February 1910 and 20th May 1911 respectively. Since the 

 latter date I have had hardly any opportunities for collecting, and the 

 mosses mentioned below belong almost entirely to the collections, made by 

 me in 1909 at Mahableshwar and Panchgani, in 1908-09 at Lonavla and in 

 1910-11 at Purandar Fort. Mr. Dixon has published two more articles in 

 the Journal of Botany (for May 1911 and May (?) 1912) describing both 

 mosses sent by me, and mosses sent by several other collectors from 

 various parts of India. Two more new genera have been founded, one in 

 the family of Pottiacece, to which the name Syoiyliilopsis has been assigned, 

 and one in the JEntodontacece which has been named BryosedgwicJcia. The 

 former, if maintained, will fall naturally between Fottia and Hyophila. The 

 latter, belonging as it does to a family of pleurocarps which it is difficult 

 to break up satisfactorily into genera, may or may not be accepted by 

 other bryologists. Mr. Dixon differentiates it from Pylasia, to which genus 

 he was at first inclined to refer the moss, on the ground of structural 

 peculiarities of the endostome only. This moss appears to be very common 

 on trees throughout the Western Ghats. HyopMlopds on the other hand I 

 have so far only found on the chunam of one house at Purandar Fort. In 

 addition to these two new genera Mr. Dixon describes two new species of 

 Bryuin with one variety, and one new variety of an already known species 

 of Bryum. Bryuvi ghaiense, and B. ghatense, var. Satarense, both appear to be 

 common mosses of the Ghats, as I have gathered the type at Mahableshwar, 

 Lonavla, and Purandar, and the variety at the first and third of the places 

 named. On Purandar they are especially common on dry banks and 

 rock faces. The type and the variety frequently grow together. Bryum 

 Sahyadrense also grows in similar situations on Purandar Fort, which appears 

 to be a locality particularly suitable to this group of Bryum, called on 

 account of the lax areolation of the cell-structure of the leaf Areodictyon. 

 Bryum ])seudo-al2nnum Y&r . latifolium also grows in damper places on earthy 

 banks on the Fort, bu.t is only found sterile. 



New genera and species are marked with an asterisk. Unless otherwise 

 stated all mosses mentioned below were collected by me. 



Philonotis hetero^^hylla, Mitt. Purandar, on earthy banks in shady 

 places, st. 



* Hyopliilopsis entosthodontacea, Card, and Dix. gen. et. spec. nov. (Dixon 

 in J. of B. for 1911, p. 137), on wall of a house, Purandar Fort, c.fr. 



* Bryum Sahyadrense, Card, and Dix., sp. nov. (Dixon in J. of B. for 1911, 

 p. 144), on rocks, Purandar Fort, c.fr. 



* Bryum ghatense, Broth, and Dix., sp. nov. (Dixon in J. of B. loc. cit. 

 p. 146), on stones of a wall, and on a stone pillar, Mahableshwar, on stone- 

 work of a bridge, Lonavla, on earth banks, and on the face of a quarry, 

 Purandar Fort, all c.fr. 



* Var. Satarense, Broth, and Dix., var. nov. (Dixon loc. cit.), in the same 

 localities, c.fr. 



Bryum argenteum, var. Australe, Rehm. ms. in sched. (= B. oranicum, 

 C. M. in Hedwigia, 1899, p. 68), Castle Rock, Western Ghats, October 1892, 

 C. A. Gammie (in Herb, of Agricultural College, Poona), st. 



* Bryum 'pseudo-alpinmn, var. latifolium, Card, and Dix., var. nov. 

 (Dixon in J. of B. for 1911, p. 149), Purandar Fort, on earthy banks, st. 



Entodon Thomsoni (Mitt.) Jeeg. on banks and rocks, Purandar Fort, c.fr. 



