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The Naturalist. 



HYPNUM ELEGANS, as described in Hookee's " Musci Exotici." 



Hjpnum, caule procumbente ramoso, foliis distichis ovato-lanceolatis 

 enervibus, apice subincurvis compressis, seta basilari, capsula cernua 

 ovata, operculo conico-acuminato. 



Caulis sesquiuncialis, procumbens vage ramosus. Folia flavo- 

 virescentia, subnitida, bifaria, disticha, compressa, horizontaliter paten- 

 tia, ovato-lanceolata, concava, enervia, apice solurixmodo serrulata, 

 seciinda. Perichsetialia ovata, longe acuminata. Seta caulis inferiore 

 parte inserta, vix unciam longa, erecta, flexuosa, apice incurva. Capsula 

 ovata, cernua, operculum conico-acuminatum. Peristomii dentes, ext. 

 rubri, int. flavi, segmentis ciliis interpositis. 



A species in habit bearing no inconsiderable resemblance to Hyp. 

 jmlchellum (Leskea, Sp. Muse.) and Silesianum, but differing from the 

 former in the leaves being serrated at the points, and from the latter 

 in the points alone being serrated, and from both by the singularly- 

 drooping capsules. 



KEFEEENCES TO PLATE V. 



Fig. 1. — Hypnum elegans, Hook. Mwsc. Exot. 

 a. Plant, natural size. 

 6. Capsule and seta magnified. 

 ^ c. Leaves do. 



d. Perichsetial leaves. 



(After Hooker.) 



Fig. 2. — H. Borrerianum. — Spruce. The plant referred to by Mr. 

 "Whitehead from Barmouth. 

 a. Plant, natural size. 

 6. Capsule and seta magnified. 



c. Leaves do. 



d . Perichsetial leaves. 



MiGEATORY Arrivals. — I saw a swallow on the wing in the Ryburn 

 valley, on the morning of April 11th ; the wheatear on Norland Moor, 

 on the 7th ; and a few willow wrens had arrived by April 9th. — F. G. S. 

 Rawson, Thorpe, Halifax, April I7th. 



The Eagle Owl (Bubo maximus) m captivity. — Three living specimens 

 of this beautiful bird are now being exhibited in Roundhay Park, near 

 Leeds. The largest, a female, was taken on Rombalds Moor in 1876 ; 

 the other two are young birds, male and female, taken out of a nest last 

 August, about twelve miles north of Aberdeen. They are kept by Mr. 



