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BOTANY OF KERGUELEN ISLAND. 
curvato horizontalis, tenui-membranacea, nitida ; sporangio ovali oollo recto sequi- 
longo sensiin angustato ; ore satis parvo coarctato ; oporculo coiivexo apioe brevis- 
sime acuto ; pcristomii deiitibus pallidis intorni fragmentis externo usque ad medium 
adhaBreiitibus. 
Kerguelen Island, Moseley. 
Stems including the numerous branches about 3 lines high, and with the 
foliage about half a line wide. Loaves appressed when dry, a few at the apices of 
the branches green, the lower all dark brown. Seta 3 lines long. Capsule about 
lines long, oohraceous, almost shining. The male flowers are terminal on branches 
arising below the perichaetium. 
This small species appears to be nearly allied to B. demissum, Hook., but its 
(■apsule is symmetrical, and the peristome is different. 
Tab. III. fig. iii. ; plants nat. size; 2, entire plant; 3, cauline leaf; 4, peri- 
chcetial and comal leaves ; 5, portion of peristome ; all magnified. 
11. Bryum Isevigatum, var. llook. f. and IFUs. Flor. Antarcl., 415, 
t. 154, f. 3. 
Christmas Harbour, barren, Ilooher. 
12. Bryum Wahlenbergii, Schweeg. 
Christmas Harbour, common, Hooker. 
[B. Waiineum, Bland. ; gayanum, Mont. ; torqtiescens, Br. and Sch. ; and 
PALLESCENS, Scliwoig., ai’o all enumerated by James as found by Kidder (Bull. U. S. 
Nat. Mus. 3, 26.] 
1. Mielichhoferia campylocarpa, Hook, et Am. in Hook. Icon. PL, 
t. 136 (Weissia). 
Kerguelen Island, Moseley. Near Swain’s Bay, with unripe fruit. Baton. 
First described from the Andes, whore it was gathered by Jameson; it was 
afterwards found in Mexico, and may be one of those species extending tliroughout 
the Andine chain. M. basiUaris, Bruch et Schimp., from the Abyssinian mountains, 
i\ith entirely the same statme and appearance, differs in some particulars of the 
peristomial teeth, and in the nerve of the leaf vanishing below the point. 
Plagiothecium antarcticum, Mitt, in Joum. Linn. Soo. xv. 71. Monoi- 
eum, cBBspitosum, ramis ascendentibus. Folia compressa, subfalcata, nitida ; caulina 
ovata, acuminata, integerrima, enervia ; ramea ovato-lanceolata, tenuiter acuminata, 
subenervia ; omnia basi subcordata, cellulis angustis elongatis areolata ; perichsetialia 
convoluta, late ovata, breviter acuminata. Theca in pedunculo elongate rubro 
ovalis, insequalis, suberecta inclinatave; operculo breviter conico; peristomio in- 
terno ciliis in unum coalitis inter processus carinatos dentium longitudinis impositis 
ill rnembranam usque ad dentium dimidiam longitudinem exsertam insidentibus. 
Iloyal Sound, with mature and old fruit, Eaton. Marion Island, Moseley. 
Stems formhig extensive soft patches, with shining foUage about half a line wide. 
Seta about half an inch long, when dry twisted. Capsule obovate, the neck col- 
lapsing plicate, and so curved that the whole capsule is inclined; mouth large; 
