BRYOLOGICAL NOTES 871 
The keeling of the basal membrane of the inner peristome in bands 
alternating with the teeth of the outer peristome is found in B 
tom examination of the material mentioned above. have not 
seen the male plant, and quote therefore the description given by 
De Notaris :— 
Bryum (Bracuymenium) couumsrcum (De Not.). 
Osculatia columbica De Not. in Mem. Acead. Sci. Torino, ser. 1. 
xvili, 445, tab. vi. (1859); Jaeger, Adumbr. i. 516 (1875) ; 
ii. 698 (1879); Paris Index Bryolog. (Actes Soc. Linn. Bor- 
deaux, 1. 192) (1896). 
Bryum (Dicranobryum) globosum Mitt. Muse. Austr. Amer. 289 
1869 
Brachymenium globosum (Mitt.) Jaeger, Adumbr. i. 112 (1875) ; 
Paris Index Bryolog. (Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xlvi. 132) 
1893). 
Has. Amer. Austr.; Ecuador:—*In Columbia Superiore ad 
Fl. Napo” (Osculati), c.fr.!; Andes Quitenses, in sylva Canelos 
loco Pueblo de Los Jibaros (3000 ped.) (Spruce, Muse. Amazon. et 
And. nr. 312), ¢. fr.! 
‘‘Dioicum ” (teste De Notar.), cespitosum, rigidiusculum, fus- 
] plice vel o 
cum, caule breviusculo erecto ad 2 cent. alto simplice vel ob inno- 
crasso rufescente dorso valde prominente excurrente longe cuspidatis 
; i rvo 
dentiformibus dentibus exterioribus oppositis apice serealb ie ‘ 
Membrana supra dentium medium exserta impositis, oe a 
2D 
