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nous ; nerve thick, papillose, extending almost to the apex. Male flowers 
gemmiform, on very short axillary branches which usually spring from an 
innovation ; perigonial leaves ovate, suddenly acuminated, nerved to the 
apex. I have not seen female flowers or fruit. Habitat: rocks at 
Blackhall, near Banchory, where it was discovered by Mr. John Sim.— 
Entosthodon minimum, Hunt, sp. nova. Annual, dioicous ; stems grega- 
"araphyses, perigonial leaves usually like the upper stem-leaves, but occa- 
sionally (together with all the stem-leaves) obovate, when they contain 
chætial leaves; vaginula short, cylindrical ; seta an eighth to a quarter o 
an inch long, erect ; capsule with a distinct neck, smooth, when dry ob- 
conical, widest at the mouth, operculum conical-acute. Calyptra, when 
young, brown, very narrow-conical, cleft on one side for a third of its 
length, cells spirally arranged; peristome half immersed, teeth sixteen, 
very slender, linear-subulate, transverse articulations distant. Fruit ma- 
tures in August. Discovered near Glasnevin, Dublin, on the top of a 
ongly reeurved, apex cucullate, serrated ; inner perigo- 
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short filiform paraphyses. Perichætial leaves linear-lanceolate, recurved 
at the margin, strongly nerved, nerve vanishing below the apex; seta ge- 
n young, pale reddish-brown when mature. Fruit matures July to 
August. Habitat: abundant on wet débris o slaty rocks near springs, 
on the table-lands above the head of Glen Callater, also Loch-na-gar, and 
in Canlochan Glen. Its companions above Glen Callater are Dicranum 
arki, D. falcatum, Oligotrichum hercynicum,and Polytrichum sezangulare. 
n the springs themselves abound the following, viz. Philonotis, several spe- 
cies ; Splachnum vasculosum, Mnium cinclidivides, and several allied species ; 
glacialis, and numerous other interesting plants.— Philonotis adpressa, Ferg. 
Plant widely ceespitose, erect, two or three inches high, either dull glaucous- 
green or with a fine red tinge; leaves papillose, when moist erect, wit 
one wide plica on each side of the nerve, incurved towards the apex, when 
dry slightly twisted, widely ovate, froin an amplexicaul . base, not acumi- 
