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MOSSES FROM THE WESTERN GHATS. 
By H. N. Drxon, M.A., F.L.S. 
(PuaTE 4978.) 
From time to time during the last two years I have received 
from Mr. G. B. Savery small collections of mosses sent to him b 
the Bo ency, mostly within the region of the Western 
Ghats ; eee collected by Mr. Sedgwick himself, partly by Mr. 
ell, the latter reese gathered in the Kanara Tangles, 
Penile ithe Ghats and the sea. These mountains are, as is well 
known, subject to an extraordin nary rainfall, attaining one hundred 
tik ‘itiy fiched’ i in some of the localities from which the mosses 
cam 
The district is not very far north of that of Coorg, from which 
Brotherus has recently described a rich collect ot of mosses 
gathered by Dr. T. L. Walker (Cont i apteeted to the Bryological 
‘lora of Southern India, Calcutta, 1899), and the ver sent by 
Mr. Sedgwick ata an a close relationship with thege (as 
well as, though in what less marked degree, with the — 
mosses of the N: aaibery ‘Hills, still further south), and also, like 
them, indicate a very promising capi ney field of study. I give 
a list here of the species so far received (reserving one or two 
which have not yet been stisuctoril ‘dstatiained) with the hope 
that the interest ‘of those already sent may stimulate the collectors 
to further investigation of a region which is at present little known 
Aken eb but which has already materially contributed to our 
wledge of several genera and species. 
‘toblepharan seg (L.) Hedw. c. fr. Stems of Toddy Palm, 
Thana, Konkan, Feb. 1908 ; leg. Sedgwick (no. 5). 
Fissidens ee Broth. Earth banks on new road 
cutting, Thana, pe cagnt aes 1908, st.; leg. Sedgwick (no. 9). 
On earth sap a Nig by a stream, Trimbakeshwar, Nasile District, 
Sept. 1908, ; leg. Sedgwick (no. 7). 
These ‘ae “a differ somewhat in size, colour, and appear- 
ance, but are identical in structure, agreeing ies, oop the 
description of F’. splachnobryoides given by Fleischer (Mus 
von Buitenzorg, i. 21). It is not clear why Brotherus abet this 
species in his Section Reticularia (‘Zel’en ....stets parenchy- 
matisch’’), since the areolation, while w'de and Jax, i is distinctly 
Jee ne Morse 
F. sp nobryoides has hitherto been known from New Guinea 
and ee 3 and in the sterile (?) condition alone. I give, 
therefore, a short description of the fruiting characters :— 
_ terminal, flexuose, 2-3 mm. long; capsule minute, erect, 
symmetrical, wide-mouthed and subturbinate when dry, contracted 
alow ‘the mouth, 1 mm . long (incl. the lid) ; lid conical-subulate, 
JouRNAL oF Borany,—Von. 47. [May, 1909.] 0) 
