106 NOTES ON THE PRITISH SPECIES OF CAMPYLOPUS. 
(5). There is a Femareeble diversity of opinion among authors 
as to the presence or absence of auricular cells in these species. 
With regard to C. bagel Sehiampe says, — —— 
nullis’’; Braithwaite writes, ‘‘ Leaves not au eae - kirk 
(Synops. of Brit. Mosses), ‘* Leaves et auricled ix bas Roawell, 
in describing the var. elongatus, speaks of the * iii of dia. 
phanous vesicular cells (of C. Schimperi) near the base of the leaves 
on either side, absent in brevifolius.” Husnot (Muse. Gall.) has 
*‘ pas d’oreillettes —— * On the other ste Boulay (Musct- 
nées de la France) writes, ‘‘cellules basilaires un peu gonflées, le 
plus souvent incolorées, een t lieu 4 des oreillettes séuibiablos a 
celles du C. brevipilus les moins caractérisées.’ is latter condition 
is exactly what I find in specimens gathered by the wih J 
Fergusson at Fern, while in Gravet’s specimens and in plants of 
this species gathered in 1889 in the New Forest, I find the sation 
ite as mu 
specimens of C. Schimperi that I have seen. mr in original 
specimens of C. brevifolius var. elongatus, kindly sen Mr. 
Boswell himself, I find in the upper leaves especially ches distinct 
tufts of vesicular basal cells, sometimes wider than the leaf-base 
respect, as is found in C. brevipilus, where the auricular cells 
sometimes barely eae agree at chess very highly develo sell 
(6). The straight seta certainly seems a point of more import- 
ance, but I am not aware that the fruit of C. <a here os that has 
been found shows the young seta to be cygneous; if not, no con- 
clusions can be drawn from it as to the relative standing of the 
p ants in question. I am inclined to think, therefore, that Husnot 
is justified in reducing C. Schimperi to a variety. 
The following are, I ist new records for the two 
C. rari near Lyndhurst, New Forest, 1889. C. Duane, 
Dalwhinnie, Inverness, 1883 ; Giant's s Causeway, Co. Antrim, 
1890. (Recorded doubtfully in Jowrn. Bot., Dec. 1891, and since 
confirmed. ) 
C. flecuosus Brid.—Few writers call attention to the variable 
nature of this species, which is the most common and the most in- 
constant of the oes Besides the vars. paradoxus and paludosus, 
there is to be found vith every conceivable variety of habit, 
pei more robust and more tomentose than, but in other respects 
much like the var. paludosus ; one with the leaves regularly faleate, 
and the aspect ~ a Dicranum; another cannes identical in habit, 
lutus, to nero ith ode flexuose points, rarely becoming “setose 
and hyaline, as in (. setifolius; they are sometimes entire, or very 
