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 A SECOND LIST OF MOSSES FROM WESTERN INDIA 



BY 



L. J. Sedgwick, i. c. s. 

 The following list is a continuation of the " First List " pub- 

 lished in this Journal for February 1910. As mentioned in that 

 article some of the specimens .collected by me at Mahableshwar 

 and Panchgani in January and February 1909 had remained to 

 be determined. Of these several proved to be new, and one small 

 plant from a cave at Panchgani has resulted in the foundation of 

 a new genus Merceyopsis, closely allied to Merceya, but differing 

 in the arrangement of the cells in the nerve of the leaf. To this 

 new genus have been assigned the Panchgani moss, and six other 

 species, some new, and some previously included under Merceya 

 and other genera. A full account of the genus will be found in 

 an article by Mr. H. N. Dixon, F.L.S., in the Journal of Botany 

 for December 1910. In addition to this Merceyopsis Mr. Dixon has 

 described in the same article four new species from Western India, 

 all of which are included in the following list, and marked with an 

 asterisk. This does not conclude the publication of the results of 

 my Mahableshwar collection, a good deal of which, together with 

 some specimens gathered recently at Purandhar Fort, remains to be 

 treated of in a subsequent number of the Journal of Botany. 



Since the "First List" was printed I have visited Purandhar Fort 

 twice, and have also received from the Rev. Father Blatter, S.J 

 the names of a few mosses collected by him in this part of India. I 

 have also, through the courtesy of Mr. W. Burns, B.Sc, Economic 

 Botanist, had the pleasure of seeing a few specimens at Poona col- 

 lected by Professor C. A. Gammie, mainly at a place named Sakar 

 Pathar, near Lonavla. Dr. Gammie's specimens are mainly dupli- 

 cates of the commoner species recorded in the "First List,'" Two 

 however, one a Bryum and the other apparently a Pylaisia, are 

 new to me, and have been sent to England for identification. 



As one recorded habitat after another comes to light it will 

 gradually become possible to determine the approximate range and 

 distribution of each species. But at present I do not regard the 

 data as sufficient to attempt anything definite It must be remem- 



