304 RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
botanist, and with an exquisite profusion of wild flowers, including many 
of our most familiar English garden flowers. From the Kamri, after 
crossing the valley of the Kishenganga (another tributary of the Jhelam), 
the expedition descended from the Raj-changan Pass to the Wular Lake 
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and the main Kashmir Valley. 
LIST OF MOSSES. 
DicRANACES. 
Distichium capillaceum (Sw.) Bry. eur. 
Upper Indus and Astor Valleys, Gilgit, 4,000—8,000 ft. (1099, 1100, 
1101), Kamri Pass ana Kishenganga Valley, Kashmir, 8,000—14,000 ft. 
(1122). 
Ceratodon purpureus (L.) Brid. 
Kamri Pass and Kishenganga Valley, Kashmir, 8,000—14,000 ft. 
(1123, ete.). 
Oncophorus gracillimus Dixon sp. nov. (Plate I). 
Minutissimus generis. Caulis viz 4mm. longus. Corticola. Caules 
aggregati, fusco-virides ; folia conferta, patentia, flexuosa, siccitate apice 
contorto ; € basi subquadrata, vaginante, superne dilatata, raptim in 
subulam canaliculatam elongatam flexuosam linearem sensim angusta- 
tam acutam integram vel apice remote denticulato contracta; cos 
validiuscula, percurrens. Cellulae basilares elongate lineares, parietibus 
tenuiusculis, inanes, pellucidae, alares haud mutatae ; superne sensim 
abbreviatae ; eae totius laminae minutae, quadratae vel rotundatae, 
laeves, juxtacostales saepe elongatae, breviter rectangulares ; parietibus 
incrassatis ; marginales 1-2 seriebus saepe paullo bistratosae. 
Autoicus ; flos ¢ infra femineam situs, parvus, paucifolius. Folia 
perichaetialia caulinis similia, parte vaginante autem magis elongata. 
Seta 1 cm. alta, tenuis ; theca minuta, deoperculata 1 mm. longa, subglo- 
bosa, gibbosa, haud striata, basi strumosa; exothecii rete perlaxum, 
e cellulis late rectangularibus vel hexagonis, parietibus tenuibus sed 
collenchymaticis instructum. Operculum haud visum. Peristomium 
intense rubrum, sat magnum, e dentibus inferne in membranam humil- 
limam cohaerentibus, infra latis sapra cito in crura singula vel bina, 
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