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fere ubique parvis rotundatis obscuris ; periclisetialia majora. Theca in pedunculo 
longitudine perichaetii subsequali ovalis, laevis, sicca infra os contracta, inferne 
collo crasso ; opcrculo convexo, rostro angusto ; pcristomii dentibus 16, vel plus 
minus cohaerentibus 8. Calyptra nigro-fusca, calva, ad medium usque thecae 
descendens, nitida. 
Kerguelen Island, Moseley. 
Stems not more than half an inch high. Leaves a line long; a few of the. 
youngest greenish, the rest all black, coriaceous. Capsule pale straw-coloured, 
somewhat fleshy, smooth when deoperculate, very slightly contracted just l)clow 
the mouth at the base, when dry shortly plicate. 
In all its parts larger than O. ci'assifolkmi, with leaves twice as wide, and without 
the horny appearance ; it is, however, more nearly allied to that species than to any 
other, and approaches in some respects the O. anonialum, Ilcdw., which ascends far 
towards the Polar regions. 
3. Orthotrichum rupestre, Schleich. ; Brid. i. 279. 
Eoyal Sound, with fruit nearly mature, Eaton. 
The specimen is in good state, and appears to agree in all respects with the 
European, except that no internal peristome has been found ; it does not correspond 
so well with either of the very closely allied species, O. Sturmii or O. cvpidatnm, 
which agree in being destitute of cilia. 
1. Zygodon Brownii, Scimaegr. t. 317 b. 
Kerguelen Island, Moseley. 
The minute scrap rather establishes the fact that a species of the genus in- 
habits Kerguelen Island than provides materials for identifying with certainty that 
to which it is here referred. 
Tortula (Syntricuia) Princeps, Be Notaris ; Barbula Miilleri, B)'uch et 
Schimp., Bryol. Europ. t. 28. T. Euegiana, Mitt., Journ. of Linn. Soc., Sept. 1859. 
3Iusc. Austr. Amer. 174. Barbula, S. magellanica, C. Muller in Bot. Zeit. 1862, 
349; B. antarctica, Mampe ; Tortula antarctica, T. cuspidata, et T. rubella. 
Mook.f. et Wils. El. Tasmanica, pi. clxxii.,/. 8, 9, 10. 
Boyal Sound, with abundant mature capsules; Observatory Bay, with older 
fruit, Eaton. 
The first examination of the Kerguelen specimens yielded no male inflorescence, 
they were therefore considered to be T. fuegiana, with which in size, colour, and 
appearance they appeared to bo identical, this being supposed to be a dioicous 
species, as no male flowers w’ere observed in Lechler’s Magellan specimens No. 1088, 
from Cabo Negro. The same specimens were again described by C. Muller as 
dioicous, under the name of Barbula S. magellanica. In seeking for the male 
flowers amongst Mr. Eaton’s abundant specimens, it was, after the examination of 
many stems, ascertained that although no antheridia wore present in the fertile 
flowers, a small proportion of the stems had a male flower without archegonia, either 
