MCJSCINE^ — WILLIAM MITTEN, A.L.S. 333 



Socotra. On the Sicante peak of Haghier, at an elevation over 3000 feet. 

 B.C.S. n. 1389. 



Distrib. Nossi Be. 



The specimens, all barren, are bright green above, and agree very nearly with 

 the description given by M. Bescherelle of this moss from Nossi B6, from whence 

 he had the male plant only. 



6. SCHLOTHEIMIA. 



Schlotheimia, Brid. Sp. Muse. ii. 16, Mant. Muse. 114, t. 2, f. 10, and Br. Univ. 1, 320 ; C. 

 Mull. Synop. Muse. i. 751. 



The distribution of this very natural genus so far as yet known is well 

 marked, the greater number of species occurring in regions south of the 

 equator, chiefly in America and Africa, on both continents too, so far as 

 known, on the eastern side. In America they abound in Brazil, but become 

 scarce in the more northern portions of the continent; very few are found 

 in the West Indian Islands, and only one in the United States, nor are there 

 more on the western coasts. In Africa no species is recorded from Abyssinia, 

 but they are numerous in Mauritius. Elsewhere the genus has but one species 

 recorded from India, one from Borneo and Java, and one from Austral regions. 

 In all the species the foliage, which is probably green when young, so soon 

 becomes of a rusty brown colour that many show no trace of green, all being 

 of a uniform rusty or chestnut brown. In the small group of species found in 

 in Brazil the fruit stalk is so reduced in length that the appearance presented 

 is precisely similar to that of the shortly pedunculated Orthotricha, so abundant 

 in north temperate Europe and America. 



S. Balfourii, Mitt. 



Caespites late expansi caulibus arete repentibus ramosissimis foliis ovali-lanceolatis acuniinatis 

 cell ulis omnibus rotundatis apicalibus paucis elongatis; rami erecti abbreviati condensati 

 foliis marjoribus densissime insertis humidis patentibus apicibus paululum recurvis siecis 

 arete appressis parum contortis ovali-ligulatis obtusis apiculo minuto, sulcis plus minus 

 rugulosis, nervo infra apicem desinente, cellulis superioribus rotundis inferioribus oblongis 

 angustis ; folia pericbaetialia a caulinis vix diversa ; theca in pedunculo brevi erecta 

 cylindracea laevis, operculo conico acuminato, peristomio dentibus elongatis linea media 

 conspicua siecis rovolutis, processibus internis erectis angustis brevioribus, calyptra capsulam 

 totam obtegens apice subscabra basi laciniis ad apices foliorum perichaetialium deceden- 

 tibus. 



Socotra. A common moss on the higher parts of Haghier. B.G.S. nn. 

 1426, 1445. 



Distrib. Endemic. 



The specimens of this species show it to grow in very wide spreading 

 patches, with densely placed upright branches which do not rise to the height of 



