330 BOTANY OF SOCOTEA. 



MUSCINEJE.* 



By WILLIAM MITTEN, A.L.S. 



The Socotran Mosses and Liverworts, although but few in number, present 

 some species which in point of affinity approach more nearly to the Indian 

 Flora than, so far as is yet known, to that of Africa. Thus we have a species 

 here supposed, in the absence of complete specimens, to belong to the small genus 

 Symblepharis, which is represented in India and Java by two species only, two 

 others being known from Mexico, and two from the Andes of New Granada 

 and Quito, and no species are yet known to extend into the more temperate 

 regions of either the northern or southern hemispheres. The Hyopkila belongs 

 to a group comprising species all very similar, but differing in minute particulars, 

 and they are found only in the more tropical regions. The Schlotheimia is one 

 of the most northern species; one and that very similar, is found in India; 

 and the genus only attains its greatest development of species in south Brazil 

 and southern tropical Africa, including the islands on the eastern coast, very 

 few species reaching in America so far north as Mexico, and only one has yet 

 been discovered in the southern United States. 



MUSCI. 



1. CAMPYLOPUS. 



Campyl&pus, Brid. Br. Univ. i. 468, t. 4. 



A genus often regarded as a section of Dicranum, containing a number of 

 species spread over the whole world; some species, such as the one found in 

 Socotra, have a very wide distribution. 



C. introflexus, Brid. Br. Univ. i. 472, and Mant. Muse. 72. 



Dicranum introflexum, Hedw. Sp. Muse. 147, t. 29, ff. 1-7 ; C. Mull. Synops. Muse. i. 405. 

 D. aureo-nitens, C. Miill. loc. cit. 406. 



Socotra. Common on the Haghier hills. B.C.S. nn. 1434, 1448. All 

 barren stems. 



Distrib. North of the equator in Madeira ; abundant in Australasia, and 

 in most islands of the southern hemisphere. 



* I have received from Schweinfurth no specimens of Muscinese collected by his expedition, nor 

 have I seen any account of them. — B.B. 



