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latis inter se squalibus vel paullulum ons. ese corolle tubum 
posers gme eho 2 minimis, corolla calycis lobos excedente 
dé usque medium in lobos lineari-lanceolatos divina, capsula apice 
a oerkis Ppl. hiopidals ceteroquin glabra. 
Hab. Sani. No. 7 
Planta circa spithamea, Folia modice 4:5-5:0 cm. long., 0-2 em. 
(rarissime 0-4 ¢ at. Stipularum pars basalis 0-4 cm. “i 
sete 7-9, picods, + 0:3 em. long. Corolla tota 0-5 cm. lon 
lobi 0-25 cm. long., acuti apice barbellati. Anthere bavi ex. 
serte, 0°12 cm. long. Ovarium 0:3 em. long. Capsula 0-4 em. 
ng., 0°2 cm. lat. Semina oblonga, fusco- -purpurea, polita, 
ong. 
r T. scabra Hiern (Spermacoce Ruelli@ DC.), but different in 
the narrow 1-nerved leaves and in several floral details. 
NEMATODE GALLS ON MOSSES. 
By H. N. Dixon, M.A., F.L.S. 
Wuaen recently siomerntae specimens of Porotrichum aC sig 
Mitt., gathered in 1894 at Becky Fall, Lustleigh, Sou 
ee that they were male flowe ry on dissection they proved 
o be bodies of a gall- ens natn containing numerous minute 
Nematode re or Anguillule. 
of this nature ae to be very uncommon on mosses—I 
have ay 0 nce come across them elsewhere among the many 
thousands of specimens that have passed through my hands in the 
last. twenty years or more; they have recently been described in 
nde 
to Mr. A. Gepp. M6 pce published a short erticle (Hedwigia, 
xli. Beiblatt 22, 1902) o Hypnum fluitans L., mit Anguillula- 
gallen’’; and again: within the last few weeks, a more detaile 
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number of species of moss acting as hee plait to the se having 
Anguillulide. He also detected them on H. cupressiforme, where 
they occurred at the apex of the bentishor’§ and he points ont that 
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