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even restricted t a single tree, Count Solms makes some interesting re- 
pia 
gamous plants of Portugal, I refrain here from any remarks on this his- 
torico-botanical matter, and return to my account of the bryological pea 
tures of. Count Solms' pa 
n chapter vii the author g gives us a complete list of all the mosses i 
with during his rambles in Al garvia, consisting of 107 species distributed 
under 52 genera, of which Barbula wit 19 KREA va with 9, and 
Hypnum (divided after Schimper’s generic views) with 21 species are the 
most numerously represented. Many of the PEA viz., Thuidium 
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bryological Flora of Portugal, and so are also Ceratodon corsicus, Dicranella 
heteromalla, Trichostomum flexi: es, Br. and Schp., Br, wns canariense and 
algarvicus, ee and Campylosteleum strictum, Sms., most t them met 
a Suricty. 
With reference to the main featüres of the bryological vegetation of 
Algarvia, the au uthor states its nearest, affinity to be with that of the 
arvian mosses with Sardinian, Corsican, and Algerian species. I may 
here be permitted to add that the Mediterranean character of the bryologi- 
may be seen by a perusal of Mr. Mitten's s based upon ‘my 
collection distributed in London by Mr. Pamplin, in the year 1852. 
eren 
moss-vegetation is met with, indicated by the successive appearance of 
Howe lia lusitanica, Hookeria lucens, Fissidens grandifrons, dontium 
An Enumeration of the Musei and Hepatice collected in Vue, oco 1842-50 by 
Dr. F. Welwitsch, with brief Notes and Observations by William Mitten, A.L. 
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