THE EUROPEAN SPECIES OF SEMATOPHYLLUM 855 
eunteie leaves. It seems doubtful, pe ea it can be the 
species. No mention of thes species is made by Cardot in 
his Mosses of the Azores and of Madeira, and it i is avideak as he says 
in the preface, that further exploration and collecting on these 
islands is necessary. 
2. SEMATOPHYLLUM DEmissum (Wils.) Mitt 
pnum demissum Wils. in Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2740 (1882). 
H, demissum De Not. Mant. Muse. xx. 85, 1836. 
One of the most curious coincidences in ms naming of this 
Species seems to be that Wilson and De Notaris should both have 
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appear to be the case, as = ee) Limpricht, who fails to give 
Sematophyllum among its syno 
This species has long been ‘erated to America, but Carl Miller 
Syn. Muse. ii. 827 (1851)) credited it only to Europe, an 
described the American species as H. carolinianum. A recent 
his conclusion, that fruiting specimens of the European species 
have been exceedingly rare in American sclleokiatl and that the 
two species resemble each other very closely. But Limpricht’s 
figures of the four-celled stomata are unlike the normal cal cells 
of the stomata in S. carolinianum, and the inner face of the teeth 
ore finely pointed in the American species, and th es have 
the walls of the cells less thickened and are not poros t 
be doubted, also, whether the speci Japan, referred to 
’ mens fro rT 
% ener by Brotherus (Hedwiyia, are 230, 1899), may not 
also be d 
8. te Nova-Cxsare& (Aust.) E. G. Britton. 
S. micans (Wils.) Braithw. Brit. Moss- fl. iii. 154 (1902). 
N. Nove-Cesaree E. G. Britton in Bryol. v. 66 (1908). 
Dr. Braithwaite has transferred the éldeat specific name for 
this species, and gives as his reason that both H. micans Sw. an 
H. micans Wils. have a referred to other genera. The fact still 
remains that at “ee r has precedence by four years, and the 
latter is a hom “9. Nove-Cesaree has only been collected 
once in fruit, and ‘tue teeth show remarkably deep cristate ridges 
on their inner 
- In the B ydlogtih for July I have printed in full the Byacnyory 
of the species found in the United oom having restored five old 
Specific names and reduced H. Jamesii to H. pallescens. I have 
also reduced three of Kindberg’s spadiek; described from Macoun’s 
Canadian collections. 
