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BRYOLOGICAL NOTES, 
By Eryesr §. Saumon, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 279.) 
(Puate 443.) 
(28). Taz Genus Oscunatia & Bryum (Droranosryum) GLogosum. 
In 1859 De Notaris, in a paper entitled ‘‘ Musci Napoani sive 
Muscorum ad flumen Napo in Columbia a clarissimo Osculati lect- 
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founded a genus of mosses with these characters :—*‘ Osculatia n. gen 
Flores dioici terminales. Capsula alte pedunculata, spheroidea, 
levis, annulata, operculataque. Peristomium si 8 
Flos masculus gemmiformis. antula facie, forma et directione 
rimo systematis naturalis muscorum frondosorum conditore, W. Ph. 
Schimper, typum novi generis Catoscopium cum Meesiis nectens 
prebens, quod strenuo Columbie superioris peregrinatori, deque 
. a LB 
Sules, several stems with sete but without capsules, and a few 
barren stems. There is also a tracing of a drawing (with “‘peristom. 
Osculatia” written beneath) representing a simple tome of 
sixteen teeth. This i drawing which appears as fig. 7, 
tab. vi. in De Notaris’s published account of the species. On dis- 
Secting one of the capsules of this specimen, it was found that the 
Peristome was far too immature to allow of its structure being 
studied. I then obtained on loan, through the courtesy of Prof. 
R Pirotta, the type-specimen of O. columbica from De Notaris’s 
rium at the R. Istituto ed Orto botanico di Roma. The type- 
Specimen consists of a stem bearing one capsule, a few stems with 
Sete but without capsules, and a few barren stems. Not having 
Permission to dissect the single capsule, I endeavoured to ascertain 
om the other characters shown by the plant—habit, shape of cap- 
Journat or Borany.—Vot. 40. [Nov. 1902.] 2D 
