29, THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
pseudo-reptans are much alike, differ apne from 
M. cavifoliwm and other allied spies referred to above 
NeckERA HoEHNELI C. no N. Hornneiana C. M. 
_C. Miiller, in Flora, eg in describing the mosses of four 
satbaes) reste eli C.M. On the pest page (490) he describes 
ing to Brotherus’s arrangem n the Muscz. 
. Hoehneliana C. M. a eee aoe of Neckera of the 
section Cr ryptopodia, whist | “ppeuts s to be mon in the moun- 
tain districts of Central East Africa, frequent fruiting, and need 
not detain us. Pari oa this alto 
. is more itieatte Brotherus, writing in ‘Engler tind 
Prantl, ae anzenfam Bat ii. 792 (1906), under fe Gebinge 
ll. al 
Mitt., citing Rehmann’s no. 332 alone from S. byte and a 
giving four or five localities in Usambara. He conga no reference 
whatever here to Neckera cia eniay C. = More re ently, in his 
specime y Mr. W. BR. 
Sherrin, collected on Mt. Elgon, Brit. E. Africa, in Sept. 1909, 
necessitated a comparison of these plants, and I was led to the 
conclusion that the ane were certainly geen? There is a 
densely branched and nals as compared with the Mt. Elgon 
keep the two distinct, I have no hesitation in forming the opinion 
that it is an immaterial one. 
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