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*Lunularia vulgaris. Hospital of St. John, Jerusalem. 



*Riccia lamellosa, Raddi. Bir es Sebd. 

 [N.B. — The majority of the above mosses and hepaticae have not 

 been previously known to inhabit Sinai or Palestine. They are almost 

 invariably common Mediterranean species, the greater part being found 

 in Britain. Lorentz, in the ' Proceedings of the Berlin Academy,' 1867, 

 enumerated twelve species of those collected by Ehrenberg, 1820-26, in 

 Egypt and Sinai ; and Mons. Barbey, in his ' Herborization au Levant,' 

 Lausanne, 1882, gives a list of fifteen Palestine mosses and two hepatics, 

 chiefly from Beyrout. Seven of Lorentz's and four of Barbey's are in 

 my list. Decaisne, in the ' Flora Sinaica,' also gives four mosses from 

 Sinai, of which two are not in my collection. Mr. Mitten was not aware 

 of any Palestine mosses except those of Lorentz, and I have been able 

 only to give the above further references. Altogether the total is forty- 

 three mosses and six hepaticae, but three of the mosses which Lorentz 

 described as new may, according to Mr. Mitten, be found to be not so if 

 good specimens were procured. Lorentz's specimens were all barren. 



LICHENES.i 



Omphalaria, sp. ? Sterile and uncertain. Jebel Katharina, on rocks. 



Ramalina crispatula, Nyl. Sterile. On the ground at Bir es SebcL. 

 Distr. Canaries and N. Africa. 



Cladonia pyxidata, L. Sterile, and but little evolute. On the ground 

 at Jericho. Cosmopolitan. 



Lecanora {Squamaria) crassa, D.C. Sparingly fertile. Amongst 

 mosses on rocks in Wddy Ghiirundel (Edom). Distr. Europe, Africa, 

 and Australasia. 



Lecanora [Sarcogyne) pruinosa, Sm. On rocks. Tth escarpment, 

 near Widy Zelegah. Distr. Europe, N America. 



Endocarpon hepaticum, Ach. On the ground. Ghor es Safieh. 

 Distr. Europe, Africa, N. America. 



1 Several species from WMy Harfln do not appear in the above list, for which I am 

 indebted to the Rev. James Crombie, F.L.S. 



