264 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
M. suleatum Brid. Roadside rock, half-way to Hakgala, N. E., 
c. fr. (94), a form with short capsules; roadside, N. E., c. fr. (96). 
This seems equally at home on rocks and trees. 
M. ceylanicum Mitt. Tree, 8000 ft., Ped., c. fr. (98). 
M. ee m Mitt. Roadside, N. E. (58) ; mossy bank, in thin 
jungle, N. E a ae damp vertical sandstone rock by road, half-way 
to Hakgala, E. (80); roadside bank, Rombodde Pass, ec. fr. 
(269) ; ea, Pail (271). This fine species appears frequently to 
occur as a purely terrestrial moss, a very unusual condition in 
Macromtrium. 
Macromitrium (Kv- DS § Lerostoma) assimile 
cee & Dixon, sp.nov. (PI. 540, fig.4.) M.japonico Doz. & Molk. 
; caules dense ee ageregati, humiles, subrobusti ; 
rami Sonora vix 3 mm. longi, densifolii ; — saigtorien conferte 
incurvo-crispata, 2 mm. ‘ena. late oblongo-lingulata, apice rotundo, 
gu 
brevi-apiculato ; costa sat angusta, in apiculum desin ens ; cellule 
theca elliptica, sicca laniterp 
ab. Sunny rock, Uiapassallaa 05). 
Closely allied to M. j japonicum (M. spathulare Mitt.), but 
essentially different in the morules leaves, which are also wider, 
and with less obscure upper areolation. 
FUNARIACE. 
oP ant ragoaaae, japonicum (Hedw.) Mitt. Syn. P. pulehellum 
(Griff.) Mitt. 
Gritty a of bank, Udapassellawa, ¢. fr. (404). 
am unable to separate P. gn hellum by any satisfactory 
characters icon P. japonicum. There is little in the deser riptions 
to suggest any difference; the leaves are descri i ‘subentire’ 
in P. pulchellum, and as “entire” in P. japoni badd Cardot 
says of P. subacuminatum Broth. (which its Sat later Panis 
sinués,” so that the leaves in P. japonicum are not abedbatels 
of transversely compressed cells at the capsule orifice i is in a plant 
of Griffith’s from Bhotan 4-5, while in Maingay’s Japanese 
rors of P.japonicum itis only 2-3; but in Thunberg’s single 
specimen at Kew of P. a sirease’ it tly (so far as can be 
roader. i 
Ceylon plants might be the twin ee of Thunberg’ $ sg te 
Specimen in habit and appearance. P.japonicum is recorde 
Hong-kong, as well as from Japan, so the geographical distribution 
does a present any 2 objection to the union of the two. 
é at oe Buseana (Bry. Jav.) Broth. Sandy bank, N. E., 
c. fr. 
Bendabis (Hampe) Par. Peaty ditch near lake, and road- 
