BOTANY. 
301 
An original specimen in Dr. Arnott’s Herbarium, excepting that 
the leaves have not the apiculus as depicted, in other respects, par- 
ticularly as to the perichsetial leaves being as long as the cauline, 
corresponds fairly with the figure above quoted, and in this last 
character differs from several Mauritian species which closely 
resemble it. 
Physcomitrium, Bridel. i. p. 97. 
922. *P. flexifolium, sp. nov. — Laxe crospitosum. Caulis elon- 
gatus. Folia patula squarrosaque obovato-oblonga acuta apice curvato, 
nervo in apiculo brevi percurrente, margine apicem versus subser- 
rulato, limbo e serie unico cellularum elongatarum composito cir- 
cumdata, cellulis oblongis pellucidis areolata; theca in pedunculo 
gracili operculo convexo. — Burchell, No. 209, marked Gymnostomum 
flexifolium. 
Stems from half an inch to one inch in height. Leaves on the 
specimens, which are old, of a brown colour, not much altered when 
dry. Seta three lines long. Capsule small for the robust appear- 
ance of the plants. 
This species is curious in the elongated stems, equally clothed 
with leaves from base to summit. 
It is remarkable that no Funaria should have been gathered in 
St. Helena. 
Bartramia, Hedwig. 
Sect. Philonotis, Bridel. ii. p. 15. 
923. *B. Heleniana, sp. nov.? — Csespitosa radiculis intertexta. 
Folia imbricata ovato-lanceolata, nervo percursa, margine serrulata, 
cellulis oblongis areolata. — Burchell, specimen marked Bartramia 
Heleniana, Burchell. 
If this specimen had not been marked by Burchell, it would have 
been perhaps better to have passed it over as a state of B . fonlana 
until more could have been learnt respecting it. In size it appears 
to be a little smaller than the common states of B. fonlana. 
Specimens of another species were gathered by Mr. Melliss, in- 
dicating a small species with plumose foliage, on stems less than half 
an inch high, but they are insufficient to afford any character. 
Sect. Breutelia, Schimp. 
924. fB. tenuifolia, sp. nov. — Crespitosa. Caulis parum radicu- 
