Bryum] mosses (Gepp). 287 



380 geographical miles from the west coast, by David Livingstone ; 

 with fr. May 1855. No. 118. 



In our specimens, which much resemble this widely distributed 

 species, the capsule and seta are blood-red in colour ; the leaves are 

 less narrowly acuminate than in the type ; the nerve, arista and margin 

 are yellow ; the contracted primordial utricle of the laminal cells is 

 densely maculato-chlorophyllose. 



Two other specimens, referred to this species by Duby, approach 

 more nearly to Bryum alpinum in the shape of their leaves ; but in 

 other respects they differ from it, and they are both sterile. Their 

 numbers are as follows : — 



HuiLLA. — In elevated boggy wooded places by streams in Morro de 

 Monino, common enough but sterile ; Dec. 1859 and Feb. I860. No. 25. 

 On roots of old trees and on rocks by streams in rather dense woods 

 near Catumba ; April 1860. No. 29, in part. 



5. B. viridescens Welw. at Duby in Geneve, M6m. Soc. Pbys. 

 XXI. i. p. 218. t. ii. fig. 2 (1871). 



HuiLLA. — In shortly bushy pastures, flooded in summer, between 

 Bmpalanca and Nene, at an elevation of 5000 to 5200 ft., but at the 

 time of gathering (May) very scanty or cropped by cattle, etc. : with 

 fr. in small quantity May 1860. No. 28. 



The comal leaves are elliptical, with the upper part of the margin 

 denticulate and not convolute ; the margin near the base is narrowly 

 revolute ; the nerve and arista are yellow ; the densely chlorophyllose 

 contracted primordial utricle occupies the long diameter of the cells. 

 Welwitsch notes that the capsule is viridescent or at length here and 

 there brick-red. 



6. B. huillense "Welw. et Duby in Genfeve, Mem. Soc. Phys. 

 XXI. i. p. 220. t. i. fig. 5 (1871). 



Brachymenium huillense Jaeg. Gen. et Spec. Muse. i. p. 572 (1875). 



HuiLLA. — Acsespitose moss of Mnioid habit, with proliferous stems; 

 rather rare on the base of old trunks in damp woods by the Monino 

 brook, but only in the more elevated rocky stations, and never seen 

 in fruit by Welwitsch ; April and May 1860. No. 4. 



The leaves are 4 mm. long, with margins revolute from base almost 

 to apex ; the primordial utricle of the cells is contracted and densely 

 chlorophyllose ; the marginal cells are long, thick- walled, yellow, but 

 do not form a thickened limb. 



The indeterminate specimens of various subgenera of Bryum 

 are as follows : — 



HuiLLA. — A Wehera mingled with Hepatics at an elevation of 

 5400 ft. in rugged parts of Morro de Monino ; April 1860. No. 30. 

 A few little tufts of a Wehera found among ferns in rugged places at 

 the spot called by the natives " Ferrao da Sola," by the cataract near 

 Lopollo ; with poor fr. Jan. 1860. No. 44. In congested dark green 

 tufts forming wide patches on the ground in woody places on the way 

 from Lake IvantSla towards Quilengues ; sterile, Feb. 1860. No. 41. 



PUNGO Andongo. — On moist rocks in the more elevated parts of 

 Barranco de S. Antonio within the praBsidium ; without fr. May 1857. 

 No. 62. A glistening green Mhodobryum, widely but laxly csespitose, 

 common on the rich soil covering the shaded rocks of Mata de Pungo ; 

 sterile, middle of May 1857 ; and by cataracts in the woods in 

 Valle de Cabondo ; sterile, Dec. 1856. No. 55. Intensely green, 

 widely csespitose by the spring of " Cazella " within the prsesidium at 



