CEYLONESE MOSSES 267 
I think there is no doubt this is Mitten’s species, although the 
type (Hook. & Thoms. 561, Simla, coll. Thomson) has the leaves a 
little less regularly arranged and more flexuose, the margins only 
very little recurved, the excurrent nerve shorter, more rigid and 
more too 
Fleischer reduce es P. nitida to P. Turnertana, to which it is 
no doubt nearly allied; but the very glossy leaves, not appressed, 
but rigidly divergent when ine seem to warrant its being kept 
apart. Jn all the specimens I have seen of P. Turneriana the 
leaves are quite without tie when dry, and are almost always 
closely appressed. 
? Philonotis mollis (Doz. & Molk.) Bry. Jav. A plant from 
) 
‘Kandy (10) may perhaps belong here, but is doubtful. 
BERACEZ. 
Webera fasciculata (Mitt.) C. M. Rock in stream under Ped. 
(356 a) 
PoLYTRICHACER. 
? Catharinea Henryi Salm. Below gerne, N. E. (264). A 
sterile plant, in everything but the taller stems, up to 3 cm. high, 
agreeing with C. Henryz Salm., in which ts: (fertile) stems are 
rarely if ever more than 1 cm. tall. This, however, in the absence 
of fruit, together with the fact that C. Henry: is only known from 
shortly spinulose). C. flaviseta Load ae oe ears to me to 
e a dioicous species—and C. obtusula C. M. have leaves more 
obtuse, more undulate, and the ect and teeth weaker. Here 
clearly differentiated 
oe aloides (Hedw.) Palis. Common about N.E.,c. fr. 
(123, 2 
- ‘Nees (C. M.) Mitt. Syn. P. hexagonwm Mitt 
y dis i 
P. Neesti; the description does not suggest any difference, nor 
does Mitten compare the two. I think there can be no doubt of 
their identity. 
P. Teysmagmianum Doz. & Molk. “Abundant about N. E. 
and on Ped., c. fr. (124) ; —— c. fr. (406, 407).” In 
these latter specimens the leaves are more abruptly re at 
the base than usual, but I anne find any other differ 
P. microstomum (R. Br.) Brid. N. E., ¢. fr. (28 7). 
(To be concluded.) 
