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H. Schreberi, Willd 
Abundant in the Pinetum, near the Water-Lily Pond. 
Hylocomium squarrosum, Bruch et Schimp. 
Very common among the grass under trees. 
APPENDIX. 
zu nn species have occurred in the glass-houses 
onl 
Piyioin riu eurystomum, Sendt. (c. fr.). 
On earth, in a pot, No. 2 House (Nicholson). 
Aulacomnium paineta, Schwaeg. 
Common in several of the Houses, especially the Filmy-Fern 
xa in the gemmiferous state. First noticed here by Professor 
er, 8ee Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), xx. (1884), p. 465, where an 
ee of the structure and germination of the gemmx is given. 
The pseudopodia are sometimes quite leafless, just as in A. 
androgynum. 
Fissidens are Salmon, 
Mr. Nicholson discovered this Fissidens growing in one of the 
Houses, on a Tee Fern stem, brought from Jamaica, It proved 
on examination to be a new species allied to F. Ravenelii, Sulliv., 
and is to be described and figured as F. Nicholsonii in the Annals 
of Botany. 
Hypopterygium viridulum, Mitt. 
Trunks of Tree-Ferns, Winter Garden. 
Rhizogonium pennatum, Hook f. et Wils. 
Common in the Filmy-Fern House. 
Cyathophorum pennatum, Arid. 
At the base of Tree-Fern stems, Winter Garden. 
ERNEST S. SALMON. 
DCXXXVIIL—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Retirement of Mr. J. G. Baker—The termination of the 
official services of this well-known member of the Kew staff 
on reaching the age limit on Taha 12th of the present 
bed can iot be passed over without a brief record. Mr. John 
Gilbert Baker, having already aequired a reputation as a critical 
botanist, entered the Herbarium and Library of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens in 1806 as Assistant. He became successively 
a Principal een in 1884, and Keeper in 1890. Gifted with 
exceptional powers of sustained work, he devoted uulgus 
 emergy to his laborious official duties. He became the acknow- 
 ledged authority on the nomenclature and classification of Ferns 
and of Petaloid Monocotyledons, His non-official hours were no 
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