BRYOLOGICAL NOTES 8 
shows, the areolation of B. crispatula is * eee gp csr caused 
by the thickening of the wall at the angles of the cells, in exactly 
the same ae as in B. mnioides. Miiller also, in his diagasaets, 
describes margin of the leaf as ‘‘integerrimus,” whereas in 
reality thie ie is distinctly crenulate- papillose, just as in B. mnioides. 
S. crispatula must therefore be sunk in B. ide and the distri- 
bution of the species can be ex stended to Pat 
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americani, p. 179, ** Folia ‘inferne erectiora, superne patentia va 
in Miller’s description of S. crispatula the leaves are called Os deal 
patula.”’ As a matter of fact, the stem-leaves of the present species 
are somewhat variable i in dir ection ; on some stems, as, e.g., On 
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of ‘8. crispatula”’ examined, also, the leaves vary in direction from 
patulous to erecto-patent. 
In Schimper’s herbarium at Kew there are three ent a 
referred to the present species. One of these is labelled i 
Schimper’s handwriting “ B. mnioides Mtge. eravis, Carabayii 
July, /47. Weddell, nr. 17.’’ This moss, sega is Streptopogon 
erythrodontus (Ta, yl.) Wils., a species which bears a slight super- 
ficial resemblance to B. mnioides. The two other pees ae are 
uly /51.”” Both are e good fr fruiting — of the species, and 
agree in every way with Schwaegrichen’s type. 
I have also seen in Mitten’s herbarium the specimen from 
‘Quito, leg. Jameson,” which, in Musci Austro-americani, is referred 
to B. mnioides. This specimen, which is without do gi correctly 
determined, consists of a single barren stem. This record is of 
interest as being the most northern locality up to the soni known 
for the rag: in South America. 
In 1855, Wilson, in ae age the mosses in seg s Flora 
of New Zealand, vol. ii. p. 71, recorded a moss under the name 
** Tortula mnivoides ? Schwaegr. Soctienh Island, Coles ” and 
remarked, ‘‘ Specimens few and barren, referred with doubt to 
T. mnioides, which we have aa seen.” In 1860, Wilson again, in 
the Flora Tasmania, vol. ii. p. 176, referred to the same plant as 
Mitten identified the same Tasmanian moss as Schwaegrichen’s 
specie ing it ** Streptopogon mnioides.” Also, Mitten, in his 
‘* Mosses of New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.,” in Journ. Linn. Soe. iv. 
72, enumerated the same moss, quoting it as “ ‘s. mnioides Mitt. 
(Bar bula, = aati 
In 1876 we find that Hampe published in Laneees xl. p. 804 
a moss from Australia as a new species the e Barbule 
crispata. Hampe remarked of his plant, which was stale 
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