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 fugacious. Perist. simple, arising below mouth of caps., teeth 16 very narrow, linear-lanceolate acicular, with the articulations remote. Columella immersed. Dioicous, male fl. gemmaceous, without paraphyses. Plants small slender, with distant spathulate leaves.

Muell. l. c. (Entosthodon minimus, Hunt. l. c. Amblyphyllum Hibernicum, Lindb. MS.)

"St. Û¼-1/3in. simple sub-flexuose, pale red, slightly radiculose; l. bright green distant (base narrow, slightly decurrent), patent, flattish, obovate or spathulate, rounded at apex, margin reflexed below, entire or minutely serrulate in male, crenulate above in female plant, nerve thick, prominent at back, vanishing below apex; cells large lax, pellucid, smooth, incrassate, rhombo-rectangular at base, rhomboidal above, smaller und nearly circular at margin; caps. erect, obconical at base, sub-cylindrical, wide-mouthed, pale brown; seta slender, twisted to left; lid conical acute. [Dr. Braithwaite, l. c.]

III. ERRATA.

p. 57. Head line, "c" inverted.

" 71. line 9, for "obtuse," read "acute."

" 81. " 5 from bottom, specific name should begin with a capital M.

" 99. for "" read "."

" " last line, before "long" read "l."

" 127. line 17, for "hexaganal" read "hexagonal."

" 141. " 6 from bottom, for "Nowcll" read "Nowell."

" 152. " 5 " " for "" read "."

" 139. " 3, for "" read "."