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name Hyjmum cochlear if oliim possesses the priority j moreover, 

 Venturi (I.e.) had already described the fertile plant. 



Since Greheeb, in " Flora," 1881, p. 296, has announced the 

 discovery of Hypnum Goulardi, Schimp. for Gerniany, I hold it time 

 to speak as I do lest the false name should become naturalised. 



Geheeb remarks (I.e.) that he had observed on Breidler's specimens 

 from Keeskar, female flowers, whereby the plant would be dioicous : 

 but it is monoicous, as Yenturi had already stated in the diagnosis. 

 The specimen in the Erb. crittog, Ital. Yenturi collected in the High 

 Alps of Rabbi in the Tyrol. In my herbarium are also specimens 

 from the Neunerspitz, near Innsbruck, legit Yenturi, from the 

 Myringer Alps, on the Ross Rogel, near Innsbruck, leg. F. Arnold 

 (ex herb. Juratzka), from Keeskar, in the Obersulzbachthal ; 

 Pinzgau leg. J. Breidler, and from the Guadenthal, near Dollach, 

 in Carinthia, leg. J. Breidler. 



BracJiyiJiecium Venturii. Warnst " Flora," 1881, n. 34. In J. Milde's 

 " Bryologia Silesiaca " 1869, is a remark on BracJiytJiecium populeum 

 Br. and Sch., but which, through the mistake of the printer, has not 

 been inserted in the right place, p. 335, but only upon p. 336 after 

 Brachythecium plumosum. Had the author of BracJiytJiecium Venturii 

 taken notice of this remark, and compared the diagnosis of 

 BracJiytJiecium amoenum, Milde, " Hedwigia." 1869, n. 61, it would 

 probably not have escaped him that the characters of his new form 

 agree with those of Milde's species. 



To be sure Br. J^enturii should have, according to the description, 

 strongly-nerved inner perigonial leaves, but in the specimen of the 

 original from the hands of the author I find the inner perigonial 

 leaves perfectly nerveless. 



Milde called his plant, whilst he fell in with the view of Juratzka, 

 Ic. Bryol. Sil." a critical form of BracJiytJiecium popnlemn^ Br. and 

 Sch. ; a similar form (for never do even two individuals of the same 

 variety agree) is BracJiytJiecium Venturii, and if I also regard both 

 plants as belonging to the circle of form of BracJiytJiecium populeum, 

 yet this form is far from being a collective species in the meaning of 

 Warnstorf s " Monograph of the Sphagna." 



Bicranum comptim, Schimp. Syn. ed. II. p. 97. — Dr. A. Sauter, 

 the discoverer of this species, forwarded me specimens of the original 

 for examination ; they, however, only consisted of a few stems. 

 According to my view, this species shows no relation to Bicramnn 

 longifolium , with which the author of the species compares it, but to 

 a form of Dicranodontium circinnatum^ Wils. — a view which may be 



