338 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Those from the Mees of the Waterfall may have suffered from 
the rahe of its fr te 
gards rns osses and lichens, most of them were collected 
more. As to the “rainfall, Dr. Andrews says it is heav 
during the dry season (May to December) there are heavy dews, 
with occasional showers at night on the uplands. 
itherto only seven species of mosses, one hepatic, nine lichens, 
an ge have been recorded from the island. Mr. Ridley’s 
collection suas twelve m mosses, three lichens, aa twenty-two marine 
alow native and imm 
oa cher way from Batavia to the Cocos-Keeling Islands. These 
immigrants would naturally become established first at Flying Fish 
Cove, the landing-place of the island and the site of the settlement, 
and spread from there—the marine alge along the coast, the mosses, 
&c., along the roads already cut. The cryptogamic species hitherto 
discovered on the island are, as might be expected, nearly all of the 
Indo- Mala 
The no “ind deseribed below are a red alga, Halymenia poly- 
clada, and a pleurocarpous moss, Ectropothecium. micronesiense. For 
the detailed Bueeptea of the a and fa the identification of 
Isopterygium Jelinkii we owe our thanks to Herr Max Fleischer, 
whose unrivalled setae er “he moss-flora of Java and t, 
ALG. 
1, Ulva Lactuca L. Sp. Pl. ed. iii. p. 1632 (1764). 
Near Waterfall, n b. 
= Distr. Cnattispcisbin. 
. Enteromorpha compressa Grev. Alg. Brit. 180 (1830). 
Wa terfall Cove. Near Waterfall, no. 285c 
Geogr. Distr. Cosmopolitan 
8. Chetomorpha athe Kiitz, Sp. Alg. p. 876 (1849). 
Near Waterfall, no. 235d 
Geogr. Distr. Java. Mauritius. 
4. Cladophora repens Harv. Phye. Brit. tab. 236 ( 1851). 
Flying Fish Cove, no. 225. Near Waterfall, no. 234. 
Geogr. Distr. Mediterranean. N. Atlantic. Indian Ocean. 
