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interest from the geographical point of view. The species was 
found originally in the West Indies. Mitten (J. c.) Sag hon cigmef 
i reg 
Index Bryologicus (Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xlix. p. 238). Here 
the distribution of the species is given as “Am. Sept. Ins. 8. Mar- 
garit. Am. Merid. Ins. Trinitat.” The locality given by Mitten, 
however, certainly does not refer to the island of Santa Margarita 
off Lower California, but either to the island of Margarita off Vene- 
zuela, or, what is perhaps more probable, the words ‘‘ Margarita, 
Palma Real” refer to a single locality in Trinidad. ‘Palma 
Real” is the Spanish name for the common Royal Palm (Oreodowa) 
of the West Indies, and as the habitat of EF. piliferus is, according 
to Mitten, ‘in arborum cortice,” it may well be that by ‘ Palma 
Real” was intended, not a locality, but the name of the tree on 
which the moss was found. The only other station hitherto known 
. 
for the plant is Guadeloupe, whence specimens were distributed in 
fornia, whereas the island of Guadeloupe in the French Antilles is 
intended 
It is strange that so conspicuous a species as EF. piliferus should 
have remained so long unrecorded from Fiji. Graeffe, apparently, 
can only have collected a few specimens of the moss, as no mention 
of the species is found in the papers by Miiller in which Graeffe’s 
collection was worked out—‘ Musei polynesiaci presertim Vitiani 
et Samoani Graeffeani’’ (Journ. des Museum Godeffroy, vi. 51-90 
(1873-74) ) and ‘‘Die Flora der Samoa-Inseln; Musei’”’ (Engler’s 
nda mit einem kleinen Zusatze eigen- 
thiimlicher Arten. Dehnt man sich im Geiste unsere fragliche 
Moosflor bis zu den Sandwichinseln, der Gala gosi 
follows 
Eucamptodon piliferus Mitt. Muse. Austr. Amer. 69 (1869). 
mei ricre i cavifolium Schimp. in Husnot, Pl. des Antilles, no 192 
A, piliferum Besch. Florule Bryolog. des Antilles Francaises (Ann. 
Sci. Nat. vi. sér. iii, 189 (1876) ); Paris, Index Bryolog. 
(Actes ‘ 
Solmsia inflata Hpe. MSS.; C. Mill. Gen. Muse. Frond. 251 (1901). 
Dicranum inflatum Schimp. MSS. in herb. 
