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known of the identity at the time, I should have adopted his name 
for the variety. 
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He has it from numerous localities in the Western Highlands, 
keeping its characters well. 
I. per simile Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. H. xiv. 107 (1905). (Ben 
Sleoch, Loch Maree; July 1870.)—This plant gave me a great 
deal of trouble, as it had a close resemblance to some of our species, 
not only to Isothecium myurum , with which Stirton compares it, but 
also, in habit, and indeed in nearly all characters but the smooth 
cells, with Pier igy nandrum jil if or me. An examination of the single 
fruit, however, and especially of several perichsetia found on the 
stem, revealed its identity without any doubt. It is a New Zealand 
moss, Camptoclieete gracilis (H. f. & W.) Par. Its presence in 
Scotland would be quite unthinkable, and there can be no question 
that the labelling has been confused. If any confirmation were 
needed of the true origin of the specimen, it would be found in the 
fact that the specimen is mounted on a square of thick, rather peculiar 
paper. Now I have not found any of Stirton’s specimens so mounted 
with the exception of one, ” Bracliythecium intermixtum ,” which is 
mounted on a similar piece of paper of precisely the same material, 
and that plant, on examination, proves also to be a New Zealand 
species. (See under Hypnum intermixtum .) 
I. subglaciale Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. H. ix. 179 (1900). (“ Iso- 
thecium myosuroides * subglaciale. Ben Ledi; 1862.”)—I quite 
subscribe to Stirton’s later view of subordinating it to Eurhynchium 
myosuroides ; but I cannot see in it more than a form of that species. 
I. symmictum Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. H. ix. 179 (1900). (Ben 
Lawers; July 1864.)—This is a rather stout form of the ubiquitous 
and polymorphous Bracliythecium plumosum. 
Bracliythecium. See under ELypnum. 
Blagiothecium annotinum. See Hypnum annotinum. 
B. Kinlayanum Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. H. xiv. 104 (1905). (Ben 
Lawers ; July 1864.)—Is B. denticulatum var. obtusifolium. 
B. Muellerianum c.fr.— (a) Onicli ; Sept. 1909. This is 
B. pulchellum. —( b ) “ Near Plockton, Iloss-shire ; Aug. 1912. 
3 young capsules enclosed in white paper.” No capsules were en¬ 
closed, but the plant is B. striatellum .—(c) “ Plockton, Boss-sliire ; 
Sept. 1913. A form of B. Muellerianum.” This is B. elegans. 
Stirton evidently did not know B. Muellerianum , and the fruit of 
that species still remains to be found in this country. 
B. piliferum c.fr. Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. H. xv. ]12 (1906).— 
The specimen in Stirton’s herbarium from Ben Voirlich under this 
name, however, is not B. piliferum. The leaves are not concave, 
they are rather gradually acuminate, and the margin though usually 
entire has occasionally a fine tooth at base of acumen, just as in 
B. elegans. It is certainly that species. 
B. rufo-virescens Stirt. in Ann. Sc. N. H. xix. 242 (1910). 
(Near Arisaig; Sept. 1907. Old forest.)—I do not think this can 
be separated from the highly variable B. denticulatum. It is an 
erect, robust, yellowish form, with shortly pointed leaves, strongly 
