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A BRITISH MOSS NEW TO SCIENCE. 
By G. A. Hour.* 
Sr 265). 
foliage less complanate. Lower st m-leaves distant, equiamond; shes 
or less triangular. Middle a “leat ves sublinear, acuminate, con- 
cave, rather lax, erecto- -patent, incurved; length - 5mm. : width at 
ase *65--70 mm., at middle -45--50 mm. Marg plane, minutely 
serrulate below, sharply and coarsely serrate shoes Nerve thick and 
very broad, but ill-defined, opaque, striate, gradually hanced into the 
mina ; towards the base flattened and dilated so as to oceupy almost 
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more prominent at back; vanishing below apex; width at base 
‘55-60 mm., at middle -88--35 mm. Lamina at base very narrow, 
of 5-6 rows of elliptical cells. Areole oval, ‘03 x ‘01 mm.; at 
apex of leaf larger, -035--040 x ned 015 mm. _ Branch-leaves 
smaller, nerve narrower, about one- — width of leaf teeth 
larger. Neither fruit nor flowers a observed. 
abitat.—Found sparingly on shady Eacatsnts rocks, associated 
ea T’. alopecurum, in Ravensdale, Derbyshire, May, 1888 and 1884, 
. A. Holt. 
T. angustifolium is pee “ once to differ from T. alopecurum in 
the narrow outline of leaf,—always broadest at base,—in the 
very broad thick poet in sets laxer areolation, and in the coarser 
ation. The leaves of 7’. alopecurwm are ovate, being sere just 
above the base, the nerve comparatively narrow, ‘1 mm. at base, - 
subterete, hoes defined, prominent throughout; the areolw inde 
rounder, -015 x -010 mm. T. angustifolium has been confirmed as 
& new species by the eminent authorities, Prof. Lindberg and Dr. 
Kindberg. 
EXPLANATION oF PLATE nium a ae 1. Stem-leaf, x 27. 
la. Apex epels same, x 160. re shat uate 2a. Apex of owes a x 
B.1. Stem-leaf of 7. alopecurum, x 27. B. 2. Branch leaf of same, x 
PROF. F. PHILIPPI’S RESEARCHES IN CHILI. 
By Jonn Batu, F.R.S. 
A RECENT — from Professor Federigo Philippi, of Eger 
de Chile, ormation which must interest many readers 
of this Favial. It is well known that the desert of redbeng: in 
the north of Chili, extending northward from the river of Copiapd 
through the mining districts of Chili and the territory recently 
from Bolivia, is one of the most arid regions of the earth. 
* Read at a Meeting of the Manchester Cryptogamic Society. 
JOURNAL OF Borany.—Vot. 24. [Marcu, 1886.) * 
