New and Interesting South African Mosses. 
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Schlotheimia, sp. A rather striking species was gathered on Hogsback, 
Tjumie, 4-6000 ft., 1916, by D, B. & M. Henderson (No. 224), and 
again in 1917 by B. Henderson (No. 348). It is rather slender in habit, 
with long, substoloniferous stems bearing longly and finely pointed leaves, 
and marked in its colouring, being deep bright green above and bright rusty 
red below. In absence of fruit, however, it does not seem possible to 
determine. 
FUNARIACEAE. 
Physcomitrium spathulatum C. M. Maritzburg, 1916 ; coll. Sim 
(No. 8539), c. fr. 
Funaria Bergiana (Hornsch.) Broth. Knysna, CP., 1916 ; coll. H. A. W. 
(No. 531), c. fr. 
F. marginata (C. M.) Broth. Kaapsche Hoop, 6000 ft., Transvaal, 1915; 
coll. H. A. W. (No. 296), c. fr. 
F. Bottleri (Schwaeg.) Broth. Knysna, CP., 1916; coll. H. A. W. 
(No. 560), c. fr. ; Camps Bay, CP., 1916 ; coll. H. A. W. (No. 600), c. fr. 
The leaves vary on the same stem from entire or subentire to sharply 
denticulate, and the nerve is at times, I believe, excurrent. F. caynjjylojjo- 
dioides (C M.) is, I suspect, the same thing. 
Bryaceae. 
MielichJioferia BeJimannii C M. Van Reenen Pass (No. 65) and 
Kaapsche Hoop, Transvaal, 1915; coll. H. A. W. (Nos. 314, 322, 336), 
all c. fr. C Mueller (Hedwig., xxxviii, p. 64), in describing this species, 
states that the peristome is internal only, adding a note — " peristomium 
externum rudimentarium prius errore vidisse credidi." Wager's 314 
confirms C Mueller's first observation in a very interesting way. The 
first peristome I examined showed well -developed outer teeth, about "6 mm. 
long, yellowish below, pale above, internally trabeculate. Capsules later 
examined showed no outer teeth, nor did I find any on No. 322. The 
internal peristome also varied a good deal, the processes being rarely fully 
developed. The leaves are not always " integerrima," as C. Mueller describes 
them, but often denticulate. 
Orthodo7itium lineare Schwaeg. George, CP., 1916 ; coll. H. A. W. 
(No. 542), c. fr. By the kindness of the keeper of the Herb. Boissier I have 
been able to examine part of Schwaegrichen's type ; this agrees with the 
present plant exactly as far as it goes, and I have no hesitation in referring 
it there. Unfortunately the capsules of the type showed no complete peri- 
stome. Wager's plant has the peristome in good condition, showing short, 
almost smooth, cuneiform outer teeth, rather distantly articulate, with very 
narrow-linear, smooth, articulate inner processes, markedly longer than the 
teeth. C Mueller's description of the teeth as densely barred and the 
