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Region of New — (No. 776) agrees precisely with Baron 
Mueller’ s type at 
Chirita (§ Ev- chlees} Forbesii, sp. nov. Foliis erat en 
breviter acuminatis supra scaberrimis subtus hir -_ peduncu 
fasciculatis, involucri phyllis late ovatis 0°5 em. lon v pedioallis 
aoe oaige vel binis 0°5-2-0 em. long., calycis 1-0 em. Sati dentibus 
m. long. ee legen deltoideis 
Forbes, No. 1830 (Herb. Brit. Mus.). 
anta valsbuiiter erecta facie C. Blumei Clarke. Caulis pilis 
strigosis articulatis albis onustus, in longitndinem sulcatus. Folia 
opposita, pera inequalia. 16:0 x 9-0 cm., minora 
0-8:0 x 3-5 x 4°5 cm., basi rotundata, coriacea, crenulata ; 
erate _seoundare utrinque ne raro pauciores ; ecg i's 0- 
ong. ee —_ 2-4-ni, 8:0-4:0 em. long 
pabepst mox fere glabri. Bra more sectionis eeniie bene: 
extus puberule. Pedicelli fere pate: Calycis fere glabri dentes 5, 
acute. Coroll a 3:0 cm. long., infundibularis, extus fere omnino 
glabra. Staminum fertilium filamenta vix 1-2 em. ng., deorsum 
poe mer vii teretia; anthere fulvo- seiner” S em. long.; 
staminodia 0°5 cm. long., apice villosa. Ovarium eum stylo 1-5 cm 
long., paris: ifulvo-pa scens — ula pret matura 
7°5-8°0 em. long., 0-1 . dia : 
i plait, salebacondy like C. Blumei Clarke, but the free bracts 
must keep it out of § Liebigia. The corollas are somewhat different 
from those of C. Blumei, being a little shorter and narrower in the 
ovary is slender and not flattened, and the sed capsule is 
quite different “aint the broad capsule of the other s Some 
of the Museum specimens referred to C. Blumei, howarde; and 
notably Zollinger’s (No. 911), have slender capsules, and this 
creates the suspicion that two distinct species may have been given 
this name 
MERIONETHSHIRE MOSSES. 
By J. E. Baenatz, A.L.S. 
Ix July, 1898, I spent a week with Alderman Holden at his 
bungalow on = banks of the Afon Prysor, a mountain stream 
rising in Lly wi arti about four miles and a half north-west of 
the ieee and as my host was as keen a lover of mosses as 
myself, most of our time was spent in snlistiug and stadpttin those 
growing within a mile radius of the bungalow 
_ The valley of the Afon Prysor is narrow unded by moun- 
ins, and near the source of the river is crossed by the beautiful 
sad of the Bala and Festiniog railway. In its upper reaches both 
the valley and the river bed are filled with sce aane of every shape 
and size, many of them being quite colossal ; these ar eae va 
Andrewas, Grimmias, and other rock-loving species, an 
many charming and interesting species. The rocks at the valley 
