(375) 
BRACHYTHECIUM PLUMOosUM (Sw.) Bruch & Schp. 
Mt. Santo Tomas, 2000 meters, on rock and logs, Oct. 
1904 (I71I, 1719, 1720). 
Oxyrrhynchium distantifolium sp. nov. 
Apparently dioicous: plants in very thin, loose, yellowish 
green mats with creeping stems IO-I5 cm. long, bearing 
few leaves, scattered radicles and irregular and distant, 
more or less flagelliform branches from 1 to several cm. 
long; stem and branch-leaves selene distant and widely 
spreading, not decurrent, the terminal much smaller; the 
larger leaves up to 1.35 mm. long au I mm. wide, broadly 
ovate, coe plicate, the margins flat and serrulate to near the 
base, the apex forming a short, very acute point; costa 
ae about three fourths way up the leaf, often ending 
in a thorn dae cells of leaf very narrow, more or less 
vermicular, wit in walls, sometimes minutely papillose 
at the upper ie the median 4-5 wu wide by 60-80 uz long, 
the alar broader and shorter, pale, scarcely forming a dis- 
tinct cluster; perichaetial leaves somewhat spreading- 
squarrose, the inner about 2 mm. long, from a broadly 
clasping base gradually narrowed to a lanceolate, serrulate 
point; seta smooth, 2-4 cm. long; capsule more or less 
horizontal, 1.5 mm. long without the lid, curved and 
much contracted under the oblique mouth when dry and 
empty, the exothecal cells from nearly square to twice 
longer than wide, with somewhat unequally thickened walls, 
the stomata small, in several rows near the base; annulus 
broad; outer peristome with teeth 120 w wide at the base 
and 750 4 high, reddish brown, cross-striate below with 
hyaline margin, the apex pale and papillose; the inner 
peristome from a high, golden brown, minutely ease 
membrane bearing segments nearly equalling the 
teeth in height with narrow slits along ae keel and with 
2 or 3 slender, elongate, papillose cilia between them; lid 
highly convex, with an oblique beak sometimes as long as 
the rest of the capsule; spores not quite smooth, 14 in 
diameter; calyptra nearly smooth at the apex, eae 
to a little below the lid. 
Baguio, 1570 meters, on rock, Oct. 1904 (1718). 
RHYNCHOSTEGIUM CELEBICUM (Dozy & Molk. Bryol. Jav.) 
aeg. 
Baguio, on damp earth and roots, Oct. 1904 (1717). 
