BRYOLOGICAL NOTES 7 
a characters of S. Hookeri disappear ; ; so that the name 
ted a td 
ust be tre as a synonym of S. mnioides. I am inclined to 
think, from some of the specimens Fea and from the remark, 
quoted pnere, that the moss is com n the sterile state, that 
Brown’s “8S. a kert”’ was Sain del hag the author to include 
Hampe’s B. cris 
It may be bsisee that in S. Hookeri thie gee leaves, whilst 
being often wholly immarginate, frequently show at the apex the 
small dense papillose areolation characteristic of the cauline leaves, 
pera with a more or less evident ‘lim 
oides Schwaegr., therefore, has had—if the above deter- 
ations bs allowed—a somewhat curious history since its original 
discovery in oo in 1842. On being found in Patagonia in 1884 
it was described as a new species, B. crispatula, by es See 
that author Pavia described in his Synopsis, u 
toides, a very different moss. On the discovery of te dient 
plant i in a barren state in New Zealand and Tasmania as far back 
_as 1855 and 1860, Wilson and Mitten recognized it as Schwaeg- 
richen’s species, but this fact did not prevent the plant in Austral- 
asia from receiving at other hands three fresh names. Hampe, in 
187 called the sterile plant in Australia ooo Satie cr te ae 
in 1897, published the Australian and Tasmanian plant, also 
sterile, as B. Wilhelmit ; and in New Zealand the fruiting bial has 
been described as Streptopogon Hookeri R. Br. It may be remarked 
here, however, that the publication of Hampe’s plant as a distinct 
species was caused to a great extent by errors contained in 
Schwaegrichen’s diagnosis of his species. 
The distribution of the species is therefore found to be South 
America (Chili, a. ma gaye rare vite Australasia Sy ree: 
may 
New Zealand, and Tasmania). Now this is a distribut on, it m 
be noted, which has in found . occur a several saietia of plants, 
both phanerogamic and cryptogamic. Cardot (Résult. Voyage Bel- 
gica (Botanique), p. 10 (1 901) ), gives a a list containing no less than 
twenty-six species of mosses which are peculiar to South America 
(Colombia, hades of Keuador, Chili, Para, Juan Fernandez, an 
the Magellanic a and the Oceanic Isles (Australia, New 
Zealand, Tasmania, Auckland, and Campbell Islands). The same 
phenomeno n of diskeibation oceurs in certain phanerogamic plants 
(see Hooker’s Handbook N. Z. Flora, and Grisebach’s Vegetation der 
ire ii. srt 
markable and thoroughly characteristic feature of Pat 
g &" 
terile, 
enumerated below, r aver found these gemme to be present, often 
n 
in great abun and the gemmiferous aes of the nerve 
seems to be as truly charidetinns of the present species as it is 
the case, ¢.g., of Tortula papillosa Wils. No detailed description of 
these gemme has been hitherto given, and, curiously enough, no 
pra even of their occurrence is made by Schwaegrichen, Mitten, 
