56 SUPPLEMENT TO THE FLOBA HONGKONGEIfSIS. 



Mettenius consider it to form, witli Iso'Hes, the type of a distinct 

 natural order ; whilst Milde regards each of the three genera as 

 constituting a distinct suborder of Lycopodiacese. 



The Moss-flora of Hongkong does not appear to be at all rich. 

 Mr. J. 0. Bowring is, I believe, almost the only person who has 

 paid any attention to the collection of these plants. The follow- 

 ing brief and, no doubt, very imperfect list is compiled from a 

 notice of Chinese Mosses published by Mr. Wilson in the seventh 

 volume of Hooker's 'London Journal of Botany' (1848), and 

 from Mr. Mitten's various important contributions to Bryology 

 inserted in the ' Proceedings of the Linnean Society.' Messrs. 

 SuUivant and Lesquereux's enumeration of the Mosses collected 

 'during the United States' Worth Pacific Exploring Expedition, 

 published in the ' Proceedings of the American Academy,' pro- 

 bably includes a number of Hongkong species ; but I have un- 

 fortunately been unable to get access to this. A list of Ja- 

 panese Mosses, by M. Van der Sande-Lacoste, wiU be found in 

 the second volume of the late Professor Miquel's ' Annales Musei 

 Botanici Lugduno-Batavi ;' and a proportion of these will doubt- 

 less occur in Hongkong. 



Trematodon longicollis, Rich. 

 LeviColoma mollis, C. Miill. 

 Dicranvm ? nigrescms, Mitten. 

 Didymodon proscri^tus, Hornsch. var. ? 

 Leucohryvm javense, Mitten. 



Bowringii, Mitten. 



ScMstomitriwm Owrdnerianvm, Mitten. 

 Oalymperes moluccense, Schw. 

 — ' — serratum, Al. Br. 

 Physcomitrium acuminatum, Br. and Sch, 

 Macromitrium nipalense, Schw. 



spatliulare, Mitten. 



Meteorium lanosum. Mitten. 

 Stereodon micropelma, 0. Miill,, var, 

 NecTcera dench-dides, Sw. 

 Anomodon devolutus, Mitten. 

 Leslcea mieropTiylla, Sw., var. 

 Fissidens nohilis, &riff. 

 — >- adiantdides, Linn. 

 Zippelianm, Dzy. & Molk, 



