REPORT ON THE MOSSES COLLECTED BY MR. C. E. C. 
FISCHER AND OTHERS FROM SOUTH 
INDIA AND CEYLON 
BY 
II. N. Dixon, m.a., f.l.s* 
The subject of this report is partly a collection of mosses made by 
Mr. C. E. C. Fischer, Deputy Conservator of Forests in Coimbatore, 
placed in my hands for determination by the authorities of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta, together with a further collection of Mr. 
Fischer’s which reached me through the Rev. E. Blatter, S. J. These 
were gathered, some in the Palni Hills, others in various parts of the 
hilly district of Coimbatore. 
I have further included a number sent from the Western Ghats, by- 
Mr. L. J. Sedgwick, on whose collections I have already reported 
in several articles in the Journal of Botany ; a small collection made by 
Father Queste, partly in Ceylon, partly at Shcmbaganur, in the Madura 
district, in 1911 ; with finally a few collected in 1898 by Mr. J. H. 
Darrell in Ceylon. All the gatherings from continental India were (with 
the exception of Mr. Sedgwick's) made, therefore, probably between the 
10th and 12 th parallels of latitude. 
1. Dicranum Hedw. 
1. Dicranum fragile Hook. 
Shembaganur leg. Queste, c. £r. (no. f>) . 
This species has hitherto been recorded from North India (Nepal and 
Khasia) ; but M. Cardot, by whom it was determined, has received 
it from more than one locality in this part of India, 
3. Leucoloma Bnd. 
% Jheucoloma am oeue- vireus Mitt. Muse. Ind. or., p. 13. 
Unnasgiriya, Central Provinces, Ceylon, leg. Queste, st. (n. 31). 
3. Leucoloma Walkeri Broth, vail stenocarpum Card, and Dixon, 
var. nov. (Plate I, Fig. 2.) 
Seta longior , 8-10 mm. alta ; theca cylindrica, l'7B—2'5 mm , longa . 
Kyanktalon, Mergui, Burma; on wood, Mar* 1911, c» fr., leg. A. 
Meebold (n. 1G616). 
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