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ScHP. ; with abundant fruit near Borgund, Lærdal. G. torquata, 

 HoRNSCH. ; Maristuen. not infrequent. G. decipiens, Ldb. Simo- 

 dal, Maabødal &c, c. fr. ; in smaller greyer more cushion-like 

 tufts than G. elatior. G. elatior, B. & S. Maabødal & Lærdal c. 

 fr. In large blackish spreading patches ; very fine and abundant 

 in the Maabødal. 



G. Doniana, Smith. Type, and var. sudetia Wils. Rocks 

 about Maristuen, c. fr. 



G. anomala, Hpe. Loose stone walls at Seljestad, Eide, 

 Vossevangen, Vinje and Stalheim; also on rocks near the Buar 

 Brae; widely distributed in the district which we first visited, 

 w^ith a fev^ capsules at Seljestad. The capsule is shortly cyHndri- 

 cal, smooth, irregularly wrinkled when dry; operculum with a 

 long straight beak ; peristome teeth bright orange-red, entire or 

 slightly divided above, highly papillose in the upper three fourths; 

 smoother below; spores • 10 to • 016 mm. Careful comparison 

 of these capsules (the first discovered in Europe) with fruiting 

 specimens of G. Philibertiana, E. G. Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. 

 Club, 18, 51, (1891) by European bryologists and by Mrs. Britton 

 herself has established the identity of the two plants, G. Philiber- 

 tiana must therefore be suppressed in favour of Hampe's name, 

 published by Schimper (Syn ; Ed. II) in 1876. 



G. ovata, Sghvs^æg. : and var. cylindrica, B. & S. Rocks 

 Simodal, c. fr. Common. G. commutata, Hüb, Rocks by the 

 Jordalsvand, Odde, c. fr. poor. Not uncommon in the Lær- 

 dal, but either sterile or with very poor fruit; a slender form 

 of the c5^ plant w^ith attenuated stems and short leaves occurred 

 near Husum. G. leucophœa, Grev. Common in the Lærdal, 

 fruit poor. G. elongata, Kaulf. Rocks near the summits of 

 the mountains round Maristuen; hair points of the leaves very 

 variable and sometimes almost absent; a form occurred low 

 down near the old bridge below Maristuen, growing in yellowish 

 tufts and the leaves having a rather larger more elongate and 

 clearer areolation. Dr. Hagen writes that he has the same form 



