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Syn.: B. erythrocarpoides Schimp. 

 B. Bescherellii Jaeg. 

 B. torulosicoUum CM. 

 B. erythrocarpulum C. M. 

 Mr. Dixon's last note is on Barhellla Levieri (Ren. & Card.) Fleish. c. fr., 

 which was by Renauld and Cardot described as a Meteorium (Bull. Soc. roy. 

 Belg. XLI, pt. I, p. 78) from sterile specimens collected "in the Sikkim Himal- 

 ayas and from Japan and subsequently recorded from Formosa." Then Mr. 

 Dixon had sent to him from the N. Y. Bot. Garden from Mitten's herbarium 

 Meteorium Pathkay (or Pathkoi) Griffith in good fruit, which agrees fairly well 

 vegetatively with the (sterile) Formosa plant. This, he states, differs in its 

 fruit notably from most species in the genus Barbella, in the long seta rugulose- 

 papillose, and in the outer peristome teeth densely transversely striolate for the 

 most of their length. "In view of the vegetative structure, however, this char- 

 acter is not sufficient," Mr. Dixon thinks, "to remove the plant to any other 

 genus." This statement seems to approve of Mr. Fleisher transferring this 

 plant from Meteorium to Barbella, and the synonymy would then be 

 Barbella Levieri (Ren. & Card.) Fleisch. 

 Syn.: Meteorium Levieri Ren. & Card. 



Meteorium Pathkoi (or Pathkay) Griffith. 

 The above-quoted passage is not entirely free from ambiguity, however, and 

 Mr. Dixon may possibly mean to say that the plant should remain a Meteorium. 



John M. Holzinger 



Winona, Minnesota 



Bolivian Bryophytes of Herzog's Second Journey 



T. Herzog, Die Bryofhyten meiner zweiten Reise durch Bolivia; 



BiBLIOTHECA BOTANICA, HeFT 87, SXUTTGART. I916. 



The trip whose bryological results are here listed was made in 1910-11. The 

 author had made an earlier one to Bolivia in 1907-08 and given some account of 

 the mosses gathered in the Beiheft zum botanischen Centralblatt (XXVI, Abt. 

 11,45-102. 1909; XXVII, Abt. II, 348-358. 1910; XXVIII, Abt. II, 268-271. 

 191 1). The second trip was devoted especially, but not exclusively to the inves- 

 tigation of a portion of the Cordillera Oriental, a good map (Taf. A) illustrating 

 the topography of the region visited. 



The bryological harvest was a remarkably rich one, 719 species of mosses 

 and 474 of hepatics, a grand total of 1193 being listed. Of these there are pro- 

 posed as new: of mosses 271, of hepatics 252, if I have not miscounted, a total 

 then of 523 new species of brypohytes, or nearly 44% of the whole number dis- 

 tinguished. How much of the 44% rests upon the indubitably rich bryophytic 

 flora of the region traversed and how much upon the new species point of view of 

 the author and his two main collaborators, Stephani and Brotherus, remains for 

 future investigations to disclose. Occasionally the author looks at things with 

 a more synthetic eye, as for example when he (p. 13) includes the genus Tristi- 



