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species that I had seen. Arrived at home I soon found by the aid 
of the microscope that it was C. brevifolius Schpr. (Bryol. Kur. 
Suppl.), which appears to be the same thing as C. subulatus. Both 
i British Moss-Flora, now issuing. But C. brevifolius is 
described and figured as a very dwarfish species, and ved specimens 
I possess from Forfarshire and the Continent were dwarfish 
enough, with a starved aspect quite agreeing with the deserption ; 
while the Wye plants are about two inches high, freely grown, a 
forming large bold patches. The leaves, however, present no 
difference, but the habit and aspect are so different that it may be 
well to take notice of it as a rather remarkable variety, charac- 
sesinod thus 
Casctiraitis ae Schpr. = * SUBULATUS ejusd. 
ELONGATU 
Tufts broad, ee Pitas int solid; stems — 
filiform, elongate, cop ously radiculose below, repeatedly in 
vating with fastiginte biediebes above ; branches without peidiidoe 
Leaves as in min 
In sandy sid a the Wye, near Builth, growing in omen 
ae Tortula cylindrica, Trichostomum tophaceum, Hypna, &e.; 28th 
y, 1 
al its forms C. subulatus (or brevifolius) is readily known 
from C. fragilis by the shorter subula and narrower cells; from 
C. Schimperi, which it more resembles, by the absence of the 
diaphanous vesicular cells near the base. OC. Schwarsii is more 
robust, and has large well-pronounced auricles 
SPICILEGIA FLORA SINENSIS: DIAGNOSES OF NEW, 
AND HABITATS OF RARE OR HITHERTO UN- 
RECORDED CHINESE PLANTS. 
By H. F. Hanor, Ph.D., Memb. Acad. Nat. Cur., &., &c. 
Vail, 
1. Clematis (Flammula) songorica Bunge. — Ad Ha-mi, Turkes- 
tanie chinensis, Maio 1881, leg. W. Mesny. Agrees well with a 
Sai-sang-nur specimen of Bongard’s. 
2. Vidlicocees Fortunet 8. Moore —Cirea Wu-hu, prov. An-hwei 
Maio 1881, leg. T. L. Bullock. The fruit of this plant is so much 
narrower and more compressed, so attenuated at the — and so 
deeply furrowed, whilst that of typical 7. baicalense Tur Reg 
Uebers. d. gattung Thalictrum, t. 2, f. 2) is ovoid, and with slightly 
raised ribs on an even surface, that I cannot possibly believe it to 
ae 3). And, both in Hancock's Grigiaed ‘Nin ngpo specimens, 
and in the present ones, I find the — either very sparingly or 
