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ferences from G. trichophylla as another specimen collected on 
Palma, but clearly was referable to G. azorica. It contained a 
single withered woh not distinguishable from G. trichophylla 
in a similar conditio: 
e remaining pet a were made on Palma, at an altitude 
betwee 3000 and 6000 ft. They included about twenty species, 
several of them represented by only a few stems. It is rather 
remarkable that in so small a collection so large a number, com- 
paratively speaking, should be new to the Canaries, and in some 
cases to the Atlantic Islands as a group; and it would seem to in- 
dicate that a thorough investigation of the bryology of these 
islands would be repaid still further. In the following list those 
ene _ to the Canaries are indicated by ee asterisk (*) ; those 
he Atlantic Islands ae a whole by a dagger (+). As data 
poo roe conclusions I have used as a basis a list given of the 
Mosses of the Atlantic fans i Renauld and Cardot (Bull. Herb. 
Bowssier, 1902, tome ii, p. 448), supplemented by the following 
publications, which are all, so as I have any knowledge, issued 
since the compilation of tha 
Carpot, J. ‘Nouvelle Gonictindiot & la Flore Bryologique 
des Iles Atlantiques,” Bull. Herb. Boissier, 1905, tome v, p. 201. 
(It may be worth noting that the date —_ the a of the tirage 
a part is given by error as année 1904, tome iv). 
Luister, A. ‘ Mosses of Madeira,” Bull. Soc. Portugaise de 
Sct. Nat. it, Lisbonne i. (1907), p. 71. 
PirarD, CorBizRE & Nass “Contribution 4 l’Etude des 
inadacee des Iles Canaries,” Bull. Soc. Bot. de France, Mé- 
moires, No. 7, 1907 
Polytrichum piliferum Schreb. st. Two fragments. 
*Grimmia fgg: on Ren. & Card. st. A small tuft. Well- 
marked in its distinguishing characters from G. trichophylla. 
hale pres in this specimen are short, and, indeed, usually 
Pe Racnigpis streptocarpa eee st. A few short stems only. 
Mnium rostratum Schrad. 
Anacolia Webbii Schimp. s 
*Fontinalis antipyretica var. azorica Card. st. Quite differ 
in habit from the type, and referable, L have no doubt, - Cardot’s s 
variety, with the description of which it very well agree 
a complanata Hib. cfr—N. crispa Hedw. ae This is 
quite neta Hedwig’s plant, and not the N. intermedia Brid., 
which would appear to be far the more frequent plant in the 
Canaries. I should feel no doubt, after examining the specimens 
in the British Museum Herbarium (and I find the conclusion 
ely not ee a ie the — plant, a branch may ee 
and there be found on typical N. intermedia bearing all the 
