WEISIA CRISPATA IN BRITAIN. 875 
Hab. Buluwayo, Rhodesia; Dr. R. Frank Rand, May, 1898 
(Herb. Mus 
Caulis gat robustus, circa 0°4 cm. diam., striatus, deinde glaber. 
Folia modica 3:0-5°0 cm. long., 0°4-0°8 em. lat. -, in sicco plus minus 
atrata, membranacea. reas 0'7 cm. long. circa 0°4 em. lat. 
hylla omnia membran 
Near the last two, bit easily distinguished by its indumentum 
linear-lanceolate leaves, and always congested capitula; also by the 
shape of the ee scales, and the outer pappus- pales some- 
times ending in a short awn 
GEIGERIA PROTENSA Buby’ var. PUBIGERA nob. A typo discrepans 
ob indumentum minute tomentosum mox pubescen 
Hab. Buluwayo, Rhodesia; Dr. R. Frank Rand, Dec. 1897 
(Herb. Mus. Brit.). 
(To be continued.) 
WEISIA CRISPATA IN BRITAIN. 
By H. N. Drxon, M.A., F.L.S. 
Weisia crispata was first published, as Hymenostomum egitieo 
by Nees and Hornschuch in the Bryologia Germanica (ed. 1, 1828). 
Under this name, too, it was ledexibed and figured in the aig Eur. 
in the Muse. Gallica, has reduced it to a variety of H. tortile, 
‘‘feuilles plus longues, a bords plus fortement involutés; orifice 
de la capsule plus étroit.”” Boulay asks with point, ‘If the var. 
‘1 ; 
° « Ui 
plur. auct.), and describes it, for the first time, so far as I am 
aware, as peristomate, under the name of Weisia crispata (Bry. 
erm.) Jur. Laubm. v. Oesterr.-Ung. 11 (1882).* 
I have lately received from Mr. 7: Wheldon a plant gathered 
in N.W. Lancashire by Mr. A. Wilson in February of this year, 
labelied “‘ W, tortilis peristomate?’’ Subsequently Mr. Wilson and 
Mr. Wheldon were able to supply a larger quantity gathered from 
several localities within the same district, and in more mature 
* This appears to be an error. Juratzka (I. c.) cites it as W. crispata C. M. 
It should stand as W. crispata C. M. Synopsis, i, 662 (1849). 
