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processes as equal to the teeth in length does not agree, but as he had not 
seen actual specimens too much stress must not be laid on this discrepancy. 
The plication of the capsule is very variable, often wanting. 
Leptohryum piriforme (L.) Wils. Greorge, CP., 1916 ; coll. H. A. W. 
(No. 570), c. fr. ; Maritzburg; coll. Sim (No. 8676). There may be some 
question whether this is not an introduced plant. 
Pohlia mielichhoferiacea (C. M.) Broth. Van Eeenen Pass, Natal, 1915, 
coll. H. A. W. (No. 285), c. f r. I think this plant is referable to C. Mueller's 
species, though there are certain discrepancies. Rehm. M. Austr.-Afr. 
No. 222 agrees very well except that the plants are very scattered ; here 
they are somewhat coespitose. The leaves of the fertile stems are there 
much longer and narrower, those of the sterile stems shorter and less acute, 
with shorter and more obscure cells. The inflorescence, capsule and peri- 
stome, however, agree quite well, and in view of the peculiar nature of the 
peristome this must have considerable importance. 
P. nutans (Schreb.) Lindb. (Syn. Bryum Ecldonianum C. M.). George, 
CP., 1916; coll. H. A. W. (No. 552), c. fr. Bryum Echlonianum C M. is 
certainly the same thing. 
Brachymenium dicranoicles (Hornsch.) Jaeg. Home Rule, 5000 ft. 
Poleta, Natal, June, 1915 ; coll. Sim (No. 8666), c. fr. 
Brach. Borgenianum Hampe. Kaapsche Hoop, Transvaal, 1915 ; coll. 
H. A. W. (No. 331), c. fr. 
Brach. cam/pylotrichum (C M.). {Bryum campylotrichmn C M. in 
Hedwig. xxxviii, 65.) Rietfontein, Transvaal, coll. H. A. W. (No. 253 p.p.). 
This appears to be C Mueller's species, with the description of which it 
agrees well. It is closely allied to B. pulchrum, but differs at once in the 
scarcely bordered leaves. 
Brach. pulchrum Hook. Kaapsche Hoop, Transvaal, 1915 ; coll. H. A. W. 
(No. 339), c. fr. Near Hogsback, 4-6000 ft., Tjumie, CP., 1916; coll. 
Hend. (Nos. 195, 211), c. fr. Trees near top of Zwaartkop, 5000 ft.. Natal, 
1917; coll. Sim (No. 8701), c. fr. Ciant's Castle, 8000 ft., Natal, 1915; 
coll. E. E. Symons, comm. Sim (No. 8692). 
I have compared specimens of Brach. koratranum (C M.) — " Cap B. 
Sp., Phillipstown, am Kat-River, misit Ecklon," in Herb. Hampe, probably 
part of the original co-type of B. koratranum — and the original of B. 
pnlchrum in Herb. Hooker, and I do not find the differences alleged by C. 
Mueller to hold good between the two. The principal characters, as noted 
by C. Mueller (Syn. i, 324), are as follows : 
B. pulchrum he compares with B. koratranum as " quam maxime simile, 
sed foliis angustioribus, sublanceolatis longioribus margine minus pellucidis 
et theca brevi-pedunculata brevicolla sat dift'ert." The fruit of the former 
he describes as pyriformis rotundata,'''' that of the latter as " pyriformis 
clavata.^^ 
