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(Plockton, Boss-shire.)—This is a very beautiful plant, whatever its 
position. It is in very dense, compact tufts, tomentose below, and 
beautifully variegated with green and deep vinous red. The leaves 
have much of the character of B. obconicum , but are narrower, often 
extremely narrowly and longly acuminate, with the nerve excurrent 
in a long glossy arista, usually about half the length of the leaf, 
occasionally equalling the whole length. The leaves when dry are 
shrunken, and somewhat twisted, but not as a rule spirally contorted ; 
here and there, however, a stem has them distinctly spirally twisted, 
and the relationship to B. capillare is thereby marked. The areola- 
tion is also much like that of B. obconicum , but the border is ex¬ 
tremely wide, of strongly incrassate cells, and is therefore very 
conspicuous. I think the plant may well take rank as a subspecies 
of B. capillare, but its affinity with that, and especially with the 
subsp. B. obconicum, is too close, I think, to allow of independent 
rank. I have what must be considered the same plant from Llan¬ 
gollen, coll. Prof. Barker; the leaf-form and structure are identical, 
but the colouring is not marked. 
B. rubricosum Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. H. vi. 121 (1S97). (Summit 
of Ben Lawers ; July 1804.)—This is Bryum paliens var. speciosum 
Sch imp. 
Minium gracilentum Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. IT. xvii. 173 (1908). 
(Ben Lawers; July 1803; very near summit.)—Stirton considers 
this near M. orthorrhynchum, and quite correctly ; it is a small 
dense form of J\l. lycopodioicles , such as one might expect at that 
altitude and exposure. 
LeUCODONTACEjE. 
Bteroc/onium gracile var. punctellum Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. H. ix. 
181 (1900).—Numerous specimens occur in the herbarium of this, 
which is based on the presence of spicules or papillae on the back of 
the leaf. But this is not, as Stirton supposed, a peculiarity of the 
Scottish plant. I have found them normal in all the specimens I 
have examined from all parts of Britain ; and, though they were over¬ 
looked by Schiinper and other continental authors, the later writers 
(Hagen, Limpricht, Brotlierus) describe the leaves as normally 
papillose or spiculose. It is, in fact, a specific—or rather a generic— 
character. 
Hypnaceje. 
Climacium epigeeum Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. II. xix. 240 (1910). 
(Ben Lawers; July 1855.)—Stirton compares it with C. americanum. 
But that is distinguished by the dilated auricles and leaves markedly 
plicate, and this has neither ! 
There is only one poor stem, an inch and a half high, with about 
five short branches. It appears to me to differ in no way from 
C. dendroides. 
Isothecium interludens Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. H. ix. 17S (1900). 
(Ben Ledi; 1864. A. McKinlav.)—This is my Burl/gncliium myo- 
suroides var. brachythecioides. Stirton has indeed identified a 
specimen of that var., which I sent him, with his species. Had I 
