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where, pect the group is composed of more nininkone cl 
with a more Shiskened seit wall ree figs. 8, a The stem oO 
ee i. Hampeana and W. pellucidens is com sed of one or two 
peripheral rows of cells with slightly thic ms pecans cell- — 
5 aan, a central mass of very delicate and very thin-walle 
cells. e basal membrane of the peristome is very reduced, bu 
is still ae  atabtot in W. pellucida ; in W. crispidens it is, although 
still small, more evident; while in W. Hampeana it is well marked. 
(26). Syrrworopon GaRDNERI ae ) Schwaegr. var. MacLELLANDIL 
(Gr 
Dr. J. Cardot sent me otic a moss labelled “« Syrrhopodon 
ela ‘Schw. ?, Sikkim; Kurseong, leg. Rev. Decoly, 1899,” 
‘Je remarque que sur mon ewes les feuilles sont wee étroites et 
making 
stem taller and more flexuous; leaves longer and narrower, “ee 
the margin more incrassate and more strongly doubly-toothed ; the 
cells of the leaf are more indistinct and slightly more papillose on 
S. Gardneri type ai re well seen in Hook. Musc. Exot. tab. oxlvi-s 
one in iced tne Jav. i. Hiab. xliii. 
there is in the Kew Herbarium a moss labelled, } 
ofan handwriting, “ Weissia Maclellandii; Myru ioe Z 
on decayed wood.’ ‘This is the type of W. Maclellandié Gr 
08 (1849), ii. tab. Ixx i 
(1849). Mitten (Muse. Ind. Or. p. 40) has quoted W. Mactellan uw 
Griff. as a synonym of Gar ‘dnert, rema king, ‘ Specim! 
Griffithiana non vidi, sed neque in descriptione nec in icone 
distinctionem a S. Gardneri invenio.’ 
In Griffith’s plant, however, we find the narrower, longer leaves, 
with more incrassate and more toothed margins, the denser cor 
lation, and the spinosely-dentate nerve characteristic of Dr. Cardo ? 
plant. We may note, too, that in Griffith’s diagnosis of his W. Mac 
lellandii the spinosely- dentate ventral surface of the nerve } 
remarke “ Polia a 
percursa vena solida, 
dorso inferne scabrella supeme serrulata.”’ Further, Griff = 
marks of his species, ‘‘ A Calympera Gardneri, saltem-4q uoad icon 
00. sr 
ot. $. 146 vix distinguenda, nisi ait foliorum 
serrulata et peristomio 
I propose, naire to use Griffith’s name Maclellandii, treating 
