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(Herb. Hampe), agree in every particular with the Andrecea falcata 

 Sch. vide the text and tab. 634. Bryol. eur. : their i"o — 1-2 mm. long 

 leaves suddenly narrow from the obovate base (0-24 — 0-27 mm.) into 

 a lanceolate subulate point, with a smaller single-layered lamina to the 

 apex, at or before which the reddish semi-pellucid nerve vanishes. 

 The inner perichaetial leaves are broadly nerved at the apex, the nerve 

 occupying nearly all the leaf. The perigonial and perichaetial leaves 

 are not crenulate at the margin and show no papilla ; the antheridia 

 also are shorter (0*28 mm.) ; the paraphyses, however, are longer and 

 afterwards generally ligulate above. The above-mentioned station, 

 Loch Kandor, is quoted by Schimper, Syn., ed. 2, p. 821, for his A. 

 falcata^ but my specimens bear the following note in the handwriting 

 of G. E. Hunt — 'intermediate between falcata and crassinervia.' 



The nerve of A. falcata Sch. is double- layered at the base, four 

 layered higher up, plano-convex, a little projecting at the back, above 

 three and two layered. What Sch. and C. Muller called papillae on the 

 subulate part of the leaf, are only slightly mamillate cell-walls exactly 

 as we find in A. crassine7'via and A. frigida. 



In a recent letter from Herr Limpricht he says, ' I enclose you 

 specimens oi Andrecea co??iniiitata from three stations, collected by the 

 late G. E. Hunt, whose early death has been a great loss to science.' 



I may add that some of our Manchester muscologists question the 

 right of A. co77nnutata to rank as a species : having no critical know- 

 ledge of the alHed species, I venture no opinion. — W. H. P. 



CRYPTOGAMIC NOTES. 

 Manchester Cryptogamic Society— At a late monthly meeting. 



Dr. B. Carrington, F.R.S.E., in the chair, the Honorary Secretary exhibited 

 specimens of Tayloria te?mis, which had been recently gathered on the Benbradagh 

 Mountains, Co. Derry, by Mr, S. A. Stewart. The Flora of Rathlin. Co. Antrim, 

 which had been reported upon by Mr. Stewart, was also placed upon the table. 

 Mr. W. H. Pearson exhibited specimens of Marsiipiella sparsifolia, collected by 

 J.andT. Sim, on Loch-na-Gar ; and also several new mosses and hepaties, recently 

 published by Herr Gustav Limpricht. 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society, October 20th, 1884, Dr. B. 



Carrington, F.R.S.E., in the chair. Mr. George Stabler, of Levens, sent 

 a choice collection of rare mosses and hepaties collected by hfm in Braemar 

 last July. Amongst the rarest maybe mentioned Z>zVra?zz/w molle; Andi'Ccca 

 nivalis ; Tortilla tortuosa in fruit; Harpanthiis Fotowii, only previously known 

 from Shetland as British ; Morckia norvegica ; and Marsiipella Stableri. Specimens 

 were distributed amongst the members. Mr. James Percival sent specimens of 

 Ba7-traniia rigida from near Barmouth. Mr. James Cash reported the discovery 

 of Trichostomtim nitidiaii on rocks by the sea, Colvend, Kirkcudbright, by him- 

 self and Mr. M 'Andrew. jSIr. Pearson exhibited some new Euro*pean mosses 

 received from Herr Limpricht. — Thomas Rogers, Hon. Sec. 



Barbula princeps (a query).— in the London Catalogue of British 

 Mosses, Ba7-bida princeps is given as indigenous to Province 10 (Yorkshire). Will 

 anyone acquainted with the fact be good enough to state in what part of the 

 county it was discovered, and by whom? — J. C. 



Naturalist, 



