360 
ST. HELENA. 
Tortula, Hedwig Fund. ii. p. 92. 
910. T. crispula, Bruch. ( Tricliost.omum ). Brjol. Europ. ii. t. 
173. Melliss.— A pretty little Moss from old walls and stones 
on the high land, Specimens complete, with fruit, presenting 
nothing different from the states common on the coasts of Britain.— 
Probably indigenous to St. Helena. 
917. T. caespitosa, Schwsegrichen, t. 31.— Melliss; from old 
stone walls on the high land. Probably indigenous to St. Helena, 
. Tllls Moss > so plentiful in Brazil and at the Cape of Good Hope, 
might well have been expected to be present in St. Helena. 
Macromitrium, Bridel. i. p. 306. 
Sect. 1 . Macrocoma, Hornsimuch, C. Mueller, Synopsis, i. 
p. 720. 
918. *M. microphyllum, Hooker et Greville (Orthotrichum) in 
Brewster’s Edinburgh Journal , i. p. 121, t. 6. — Melliss. 
Originally described from Burcliell’s specimens gathered at the 
Cape of Good Hope. 
Sect. 2. Goniostoma, Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. xii. 
919. *M. urceolatum, Hooker, Musci Exotici, t. 124 (Ortho- 
trichum). — Menzies, Melliss. 
920. *M. Seemanni, Mitten Musci Indite Orient. Journ. Linn. 
Soc. L— Dr. Seemann, Burchell, Melliss. Covering thickly the 
stems and branches of the native Cabbage-trees on Diana’s Peak 
alt. 5 - 4. 
It is most probable that the specimen of this species from 
Dickson, marked as from the East Indies, and now preserved in the 
Kew Herbarium, was really gathered in St. Helena. Dickson 
obtained specimens of Mosses from the voyages of trading vessels, 
and localities were then not so precisely mentioned, so that 
any gathered during the voyage were liable to he reported as 
if gathered in the country the vessel had returned from ; and there 
are some of the species which Dickson in this manner procured, of 
which the native country has yet to be discovered. 
921. fM. fimbriatum, Beauvais (Orthotrichum) Schwaegr. t. 140. 
— Hab. Tristan d’Acunha, Aubert du Petit-Thouars. 
