"o0 Original Articles. 
RECENT ADDITIONS TO OUR MOSS FLORA—Part V. 
By R. Brarruwaitt, M.D., F.L.S. da 
(Prares CXXIII. and CXXIV.) 
TRICHOSTOMACE. 
Weissia calcarea, C. Müller, Synop. i. p. 659. Gymnostomum 
calcareum, Nees and Hsch. Bryol. Germ. 1. 3 5 
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reddish mouth, reeds and a little contracted below the mouth 
when old ; annulus persistent ; lid conical-subulate. Calyptra cucullate, 
pes ‘pias with a darker subulate point. 
à. brevifolium, Schpr. Synop. p. 40.— Plants very slender = 
bran hed Lower leaves very minute, distant, upper cr rowded ova 
lanceolate, recurved in the upper part, short; capsu ule oval. Plentiful in 
the South of Europe on pee rocks and walls in calcareous districts. 
ew barren foeioens of t r. 8. were sent to me in August, 1871, by 
the Rev. ed it was s doused by Mr. Sim at Blackhall, near 
Banchory, Does 
See QNIN C. Müller, Verhandl. z. b. Wien, 1869, p. 501. 
Calyptra dimidiate, enelosing the whole theca, and Pepe, tnr 
the upper part of the seta, cleft at the side, smooth, fugaci 
tome simple, arising below the orifice of capsule ; teeth 16, d narrow 
linear-lanceolate, cower, with the articulations remote. Colum a im- 
n Dioicous, male flower terminal, gemmaceous, without para- 
physes. Plants small, slender, with distant spathulate leaves. Natives 
ia 
8. W — is Müll. 1. c. Entosthodon minimus, Hunt, Proc. Lit. and 
Phil. Soc. ester, xi. p. 19 (1871). Amblyphyllum hibernicum, 
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Patent, flattish, obovate or spathulate, rounded at apex, the margin some- 
What reflexed in the lower half, entire or minutely serrulate in “the male 
plant, crenulate in the upper part in the female; nerve e thick, prominent 
ve baok, vanishing below apex, less clearly defined in the male plant ; 
VOL. I. [suL¥ 1, 1872.] 
