— ii6— 
Revision of the bryolog^ical flora of New Caledonia. It was he who put me 
in communication with an active and enthusiastic collector. Mons. Franc. I 
knew also that in order to facilitate my task, he made use of his scientific 
connections and of the great consideration in which he was held by begging 
his fellow-workers to give me their very kind co-operation together with 
materials for work. Is not this care in enlisting recruits and drilling them 
in scientific methods, the mark of a truly scientific mind? His fine charac- 
ter, the uprightness of his judgment, his open and tolerant spirit, his kindly 
and genuine bearing towards all those with whom he come in contact were 
unanimously appreciated. No discordant voice was raised around the tomb 
of our regretted friend. All those who approached him, all his co-workers 
applauded the opinion expressed by V. F. Brotherus: ‘‘Our friend F. 
Renauld is one of the noblest men I have ever known.” This appreciation 
of the great master of contemporary bryology truly and forcibly sums up 
the personality of the friend of whom my feeble pen has only been able to 
draw an imperfect protrait. Havre, France. 
For Bibliography see page 125. 
SPLACHNOBRYUM IN GREENHOUSES. 
By Elizabeth G. Britton. 
Mosses of this genus have been known to occur in greenhouses since 
1867 when specimens were found by D. Orr in the Botanical Gardens at 
Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland, on brick walls in a hot house, which were 
referred to a West Indian species, S. Wrig/itii C. M. Splachnobryuin 
Corbieri R. & C. was described in 1902 from specimens found at Cherbourg, 
France, in a greenhouse, but this species is supposed to be of African 
origin, and the specimens bore no fruit, only antheridia. 
On January 9th, 1908, I found in the greenhouses of the New York 
Botanical Gardens^ some specimens of a Splachnobrytim growing on pots 
with West Indian orchids. These specimens were fruiting, though the 
capsules were rather old, the plants quite black, discolored and overgrown 
with minute algal filaments. 
Last year Miss Edith A. Warner brought some fine specimens sent to 
her by Dr. A. F. K. Krout for naming; they grew on wet stones and rocks 
in greenhouses in the vicinity of Philadelphia and were collected in good 
fruiting condition on October 2, 1909. They proved to be a species of 
Splachnobryuin closely related to, if not identical with, one described by 
Dixon^ as .S', delicatulum Broth. (Plate XI, Figs, i, 2, 3, 4, 5.) 
In figs. 4-5 of Plate XI the short hyaline preperistome is figured extending 
downward inside the flaring rim of the capsule with from 5-9 rows of cells, 
making half of each tooth immersed, and the walls of the mouth of the 
capsules very dark and thickened. The specimens from which these draw- 
ings were made were collected on brick walls of hot houses, at Baldersley 
Park, Yorkshire, in October. Dixon states that this species. Splachno- 
bryum delicatulum Broth., v/as probably introduced among orchids from 
tropical America, as mosses of this genus occur in temperate regions only 
as aliens.” 
1. A rare moss in the Conservatories. Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 10: 140. 1909. 
2. “ A new species of Splachnobryum, with notes on the peristome,” by H. N. Dixon 
Journ. Bot. 45: 81-85. t. 484. 1907. 
