THE 
JOURNAL“ OF, BOTANY 
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
eile 
BRYOLOGICAL NOTES. 
By Ernest 8. Saumon, F.L.S. 
(Continued from Journ. Bot. 1902, p. 374.) 
(Puate 445.) 
ier CatypropoGon MniorpEs (Schwaegr.) Broth. 
2 Schwaegrichen (Sp. Muse. Frond. Suppl. iv. tab, ecex b 
(1843)) vublished a moss under the name Barbula mnioides The 
leading characters given in the diagnosis were tbe following :— 
‘** Folia Mnii, erecta, oblonga vel ovato- oblonga, marginata, tener- 
rime crenata, siccitate plicata et margine crispa. Folia calycis 
soem circiter sex, exteriora tria pedunculo longiora, e lanceolata 
lon acuminata, integerrima, marginata, madore et siccitate 
aiesa acl Calyptra capsula paullum brevior, subulata, 
latere fissa... Plantula inter Barbulas elegantissima, caule et foliis 
Mnio, peristomio Barbulis similis, pee inprimis Tortula leucocalyct 
tagnei. Habitat in Chile. very fine plate of the species is 
given, in which the crisped and a stem-leaves, and tle very 
long erect convolute perichetial leaves, reaching up to or beyond 
the base of the capsule, are well represented. 
N ja aistanding Weheacerichen s clear description and excellent 
plate, much confusion has Molin: round his species. 
In 1849 Miller (Syn. Muse. Frond. i. ~~ described under the 
name ‘ Barbula mnioides Schwaegr., tab. 310,” a very different 
plant, as the following hivaolels given here by Miller would le 
us to expect :—‘‘ Folia recurvo-patula, margine revoluta, apice 
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cylindrico-elliptica curvula.” In Miiller’s : Ciognees the most im- 
portant and characteristic features’ of Schwaegrichen’s plant are 
omitted, viz. the crisped and twisted oma — the po marked- 
off, convolute perichetial leaves. n fact, was describing 
as B. mnioides a totally distinct plant, v viz. "B. preate Mont. I 
Bae already referred to the meine here created in a previous 
note (Journ. Bot. xxxix. p. 857 (1901)), where I pointed out 
that the moss referred to B. Blt Boers: gr., both in Hampey s 
and Bescherelle’s herbaria, was really the widely different 
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