80 REPORT ON THE MOSSES COLLECTED BY MR. C. E. C. FISCHER 
19. Bryum retusifolium Card (ined.) var. keterophyllum Card. 
Shembaganur, Madura, leg. Queste, 1911, st. (n. 20a) ; det. Cardot. 
go. Bryum argeuteum L. var. lanatuin B. and S. 
Bocks, Upper Palnis, 6,800 ft, alt.; and Attakatti, Anaimalai Hills, 
alt. 3,000 ft., leg. Queste. (n. 3065; 3210).' 
Var. australe Rehm. (cf. Journ. of Bot, 1911, p. 148). 
Shemburuve, Anaimalai Hills, alt. 4,500 ft., on rocks in evergreen 
forest, leg. Fischer, c. fr. (n. 3412). 
21 . Bryum ramosum (Hook.) Mitt. Muse. Xnd. or., p. 75. 
Rock, Gdndara river bank, Upper Palnis, alt. 6,300 ft., and Kodi- 
kanal, alt. 6,900 ft., on banks in evergreen forest, leg. Fischer, c. fr. 
(n. 3052, 3075) ; Shembaganur, leg. Queste (n. 3a, 10, 13). 
22 , Bryum Wiglitii Mitt. Muse. Ind. or., p. 74. 
Syn. B. strigosum Wils, nomen. 
Satara, Western Ghats, 1911, leg. Sedgwick st. (n. 139), 
14. Rhizogonium Brid. 
23, Rluzogoiiium spiniforme (L.) Bruch. 
Upper Palnis, alt. 7,000 ft., c. fr. (n. 2988, 3074) j Shemburuve, 
Anaimalai Hills, alt. 4,600 ft., c. fr. (n. 3411), all leg. Fischer. 
15. Pogonatum p. Beany, 
24, Pogonatum microstomum (R. Br.) Brid. 
Upper Palnis, alt. 7,000 ft., leg. Fischer, c. fr. (n. 2987, 8050, 3080). 
25, Pogonatum aloides (Hedw.) Beauv. 
Karungi, Upper Palnis, alt. 6,300 ft., leg. Fischer, c. fr. (n. 2997) 
SO. Pogonatum liexagoimm Mitt. Muse. Ind. or., p. 151. 
Upper Palnis, on banks of stream, alt. 6,800 ft., leg. Fischer, c. f. 
(n. 3059). I was at first in some doubt as to the identity of this with 
Mitten's plant, as he describes the capsule as “ plicis subindistinctis sex 
exarata," while the mature capsules here were deeply plicate. On com- 
paring Hooker's specimens of P. heocagonum and others cited by Mitten, 
however, I found that these too showed a strong plication of the capsules 
when fully mature and empty. The capsule in this and no doubt in 
other similar species goes in fact through several stages ; when dry and 
empty it is, as indicated, somewhat deeply ribbed and furrowed ; when 
fully mature but not over-ripe, it is as Mitten describes it, indistinctly 
plicate; at an earlier stage still, viz,, when about mature and still 
