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Some of these are absolutely identical with Beckett's plants, and 

 nearly all have the deeply longitudinally plicate leaves (characteristic 

 of M. Miquelianum), especially when dry. One or two, it is true, 

 have a different appearance, having the stem- and lower branch- 

 leaves black and the upper branches orange, attenuated at the 

 tips, more distant, and with the leaves not plicate ; but these are 

 indisputably connected with the other form by plants bearing 

 both forms of leaves on the same stem. Moreover, a part of one 

 specimen, coll. Griffith, which Mrs. Britton has marked " The type 

 is like this," has the orange colouring of the above form with the 

 leaves deeply and regularly plicate. 



There can be no doubt that Mitten's T. atratus is identical 

 with M. Miquelianum f. atrata Fleisch. Like other forms of that 

 species it varies very much in habit and colour, and it is probably 

 an extreme form which has led Fleischer to identify it with 

 M. punctulahtm (0. M.). 



Fleischer has already pointed out that Neckera pliccefolia C. M. 

 (Nilgiris, leg. Schmidt) is the same thing as M. Miquelianum. 

 Specimens of this in the British Museum from 0. Miiller's her- 

 barium are absolutely identical with Foulkes' Ootacamund speci- 

 mens of T. atratus (marked "co-type " by Mrs. Britton). 



The sporogonium, it may be added, of T. atratus quite agrees 

 with that of M. Miquelianum. 



Aerobryidium punctulatum (C. M.) (Pilotrichum punctulattmi 

 C. M.) ; Darjeeling, 1895, leg. Miss Eobinson (No. 10), st. I have 

 compared this with specimens (Ceylon, leg. Nietner, ex herb. 

 0. Miiller) in the British Museum, and it certainly belongs here. 

 An identical plant was sent me by Mons. Cardot from Kodikanal, 

 Madura, leg. Andre, 1908. They appear to belong to Aerohryidium 

 rather than to Meteorium, near to A. filament o sum (Hook.), and 

 doubtfully separable from A. auronitens (Hook.). 



Floribundaria aurea (Griff.) Broth. Darjeeling, leg. Miss 

 P.obinson (Nos. 7, 37), st. 



F. vnMA (Mitt.) Broth. Darjeeling, 1911, leg. Mrs. Eoper 

 (No. " ^ , st. ; and 1895, leg. Miss Robinson (No. 25), st. 



r rbella Stevensii (Een. & Card.) Fleisch. Darjeeling, 

 1911, le^. Mrs. Roper (No. 16), st.; and 1896, leg. Mrs. Sims (No. 

 42), c. fr. 



B. RUFiFOLiA (Thw. & Mitt.) Broth. Nuwara-Eliya, Ceylon, 

 1898, leg. J. H. Darrell (No. 139), st. 



B. amcena (Thw. & Mitt.) Fleisch. Nuwara-Eliya, Ceylon, 1898, 

 leg. J. H. Darrell (No. 138), st. In comparing Mr. Darrell's plant 

 with Thw. & Mitten's M. amoenum in the British Museum in 1898, 

 I ascertained that the species was at that time undescribed, 

 although distributed by Thwaites in the Ceylon Mosses under No. 

 206. I wrote to Mitten on this point and quote his reply, as it is 

 of some interest : "I have looked over my M. amanum and I 

 find I have written in the name on the sheet containing it, so 

 that I must have considered it done with when the Ceylon mosses 

 sent out by Thwaites were published, for I marked it 'M. amxnum 



