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CEYLONESE MOSSES 
COLLECTED BY THE Rev. C. H. Binsreap 1n 1913. 
By H. N. Drxon, M.A., F.L.S. 
(PuatE 540.) 
ConsIDERING the extent and interest of the bryological flora 
of Ceylon, there has been pea eabrree little published on it. 
Since Mitten’s Musci “ Or. in 1859, the only papers of im- 
portance known to me are C. Miiller’s rien A of Nietner’s 
collections in Linnea, 1869, with about thirty new species, 
itten’s “New Species of Mosses collected in Ceylon by Dr. 
Thwaites” (seventy-four new species), and eee paper on 
zur Laubmoosflora von Calon, ’ containing an account of mosses 
collected by him in 1906. The late T. W. Naylor Beckett collected 
many of his gatherings are recorded, how x Fleischer’s 
Musct der 7 von Buitenzorg, with gies "yalastea by the 
author him 
Mr. Binsioai’s visit was paid during February and March of 
1913. Owing to topographical and other considerations, recent 
collectors have covered very much the same ground, Nuwara ate 
and the mountain Pedrutalagala* (a name which rejoices in 
many variations in spelling as it does in syllables!) aoneas hpoaty 
in all the accounts, while Kandy and the Peradeniya Gardens are 
almost sally prominent. In spite of this, however, each collector 
has succeeded in adding a considerable number of new species to 
the flora. Thus, Herzog describes fifteen new species in the paper 
referred to, while the present paper contains another decade 
he greater part of the collections made by Mr. Binstead, 
er four hundred numbers in all, were from Nuwara Eliya and 
Pedratalagala some from Kandy and the neighbourhood, a few 
from Udapassellawa, about thirty miles from Nuwara Eliya, and 
a few from Nanuoya. 
The collection piste si as “avg a possible two hundred 
species; it may be mentioned that Dr. Herzog’s list contains. 
almost exactly the cn number, oa that just one hundre 
species are common to both lists. 
I have to acknowledge valuable assistance from Dr. Brotherus 
in the determination of some of the critical species 
ng ke 
Trematodon ceylonensis C.M. Stony ground in open, nea 
waterfall, N. on c. fr. (249): stony bank near Ragala, ae 
2). 
lawa, c. fr. (39 
* I have used the abbreviation Ped. for the mountain in the following 
enumeration, and N. HE. for Nuwara Eliya. 
JournaAL oF Borany,—Vot. 53. [Serremper, 1915.) v 
