OCTODICERAS JULIANUM BRID. IN BRITAIN 51 
as it does in the other species of the genus, but becomes contracted 
into the sporangium at the moment of separation of the lid. 
The fruit ripens in summer, and the plant appears to be less 
confined to decaying animal matter than the others of the or rder, 
iia: “Tt was ong before we > arena in ae ri this bani 
arctic species ; it o urs, however, rarely near the Jenisei at abou 
70° N. latitude, ad 18 apparently more frequent further north. tt 
maritime animals; in the northern part of the Scandinavian 
Peninsula it is widely scattered, reaching its southern limit in lat 
60° N. (Dovre 
he most southerly locality, however, given in various books and 
on the tickets of gs specimens in the Natural History Museum—viz. 
So that Widdy Bank Fell in about lat. 40° 11' is very considerably 
further south than the previously known limit. The plant was 
aering at an altitude of about 1600 
are greatly obliged to Mr. Salmon for very kindly drawing 
the ie ttancine plate 
Description or Prate 430. 
Figs. 12-19, —Tetraplodon Ver mskioldii Lindb. 12. Plant about nat. size. 
13, Single stem showing autoicous inflorescence, about nat. size. 14, 15. Stem- 
leaves, x 17, rginal anectaticn of same, a little below nae x nih 
. Ape ex of same, x 60. 18. Ripe ca sule, in dry condition, x 17. 
tooth . peristome, x 170. (igs. 12-17 drawn from Teesdale specimens ; 
18 & 19 from a continental specimen.) 
OCTODICERAS J ULIANUM Bap. IN BRITAIN. 
By J. B. Dunoan. 
(Prate 480, figs. 1-11.) 
E by Mr. J. BE. Bagnall on the discovery of this moss in 
ostomy appeared in the Journal of Botany, July, 1901, but 
as the plant is but little known to British bryologists, it would 
*ppear to be advisable to publish a description, with figures. I have 
therefore written the following notes on its discovery in this country, 
d and am Sreatly indebted to Mr. Horrell for geoy se Limpricht’s 
“ttiption, and to Mr. Salmon for drawin g the figures. 
he plant first si under my notice in May, 1901, o—_— 
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