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 96. D. palustre. Brid. Dr. Braithwaite points out in Grevillea i., 109, that La Pylaie's specimens of this moss (Bridel Bryol. Univ. i. 814) belong to Campylopus flexuosus, as shewn by De Notaris in his Epil. Bryol. Ital.; and that hence the name, De Not. is to be preferred. The synonymy would then stand:—

96. De Not. Syllab. Muse. 213 (1838); Muell. Synopsis i., 369 (1849). D. palustre. Bry. Eur. and Bry. Brit., p. 79 (non Bridel.) D. undulatum. Turn. Musc. Hib.

The following amended diagnosis of this species is from the same author (in Grev. i., 109):—"Seta solitary; st. erect; l. more or less erecto-patent, straight, from a broad linear flat base, broadly oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowed into a strap-shaped point, tapering into an acute apex, lightly undulate above, canaliculate; margin acutely serrate above, teeth uniform in shape and direction; nerve very narrow, vanishing below apex, smooth at back; basal cells short quadrate, brownish, above elongate-hexagonal or parallel-*gramic, uppermost elliptic-oblong."

361. E. minimum, Hunt. is now ascertained to be, Muell., and can hardly be considered as indigenous, "for the spores have most probably been mixed with soil attached to some exotic, and thus accidentally scattered on the wall where it was found."—[Braithwaite.]

SPLACHNOBRYUM. C. Muell. Verhand. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 1869. p. 501.

"Calyp. dimidiate, enclosing the whole theca and embracing spirally the upper part of the seta, cleft at side, smooth,