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inferwoveu with long reddish radicles, dicliotomous, ^-1 jii. hijili, doise. leaved. Leaves long, lineal-lanceolate, becoming subulate toward apex, fragile, cirrhate, and twisted when dry ; base short, erect, of numerous rectangular, pellucid cells, upper part carinate, with rotundate quadrate cells, which become obscure at apex ; nerve reddish, extending to apex ; margin a little recurved below, sinuous in the upper half, and with a few irregular denticulations just below the point. — Hab. On old walls, Bangor (Wilson, 1863) ; on tree roots on the chalk downs of Sussex, Woolsonbury, Arundel, etc. (Davies), Cornuvall (Borrer), Plymouth (Holmes).

34. T. fragUis, Hook. — Dldi/modoii frngills, Hook, in Drum. Muse. Anier. 1S28. Torl/da /raff ills, \Yi\s. T. Dnimmoudii, Mitten. — Dioicous, resembling T. tordwsa, in dense interwoven tufts. Stem erect, dichoto- mous, clothed below with tomentum. Leaves densely crowded, lower lanceolate, upper longly subulate, and all channelled, entire, with an excurrent nerve, very fragile, erect when moist, squarroso-falcate when dry ; cells at base hyaline, above minute, papillose on both sides. Cap- sule erect, ovate-oblong, slightly curved ; lid conic, with a long oblique beak.— Wet clefts of rocks. Ben Lawers (M-Kiniay, 1865).

35. T. AY/«c/yvos«, Brid. — Pleurochcete sqicarrosa, Liudberg. Gerutodon purpiirtim, L.

Explanation of Plates CXIX. and CXX.

Plate CIX. — Fig. 1. V/eisia commutata. Fig. 2. W. truncicola. Fig. 3. Pottia asperida. Fig. 4. P. vlrldifolia. Fig. 5. Torlula rkjidula. Fig. 6. T. spadicea.

Plate CXX.— Fig. 1. TortuJa instdana. Fig. 2. T.rpflexa. Fig. 3. T.ntfa. Fig. 4. T. recurvifolia. Fig. 5. T.hiheruica. Fig. 6. T.suiuosa. /leaf; /akaf apex ; I h leaf base j I x leaf section ; c capsule ; v calyptra ; r radicles.

��ON THE FLORA OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. By Robert Tucker, M.A.

The warmest thanks of all persons interested in the botany of the Isle of Wight are due to Mr. A. G. More for his full Sujiplement to Dr. Bromiield's excellent ' Flora Vectensis,' contained in previous numbers of this Journal. His labours and successes in this held are second only to (if not on a par with) those of his lamented predecessor. If it were not too much to expect from one who has so many calls upon his time already, one could wish that he would concentrate his powers in the drawing up a new Flora of the district, eschewing the descriptions given by Dr. Bromheld, and modelled (as I have suggested, Vol. VHI. p. 158) on the ' Flora of Middlesex ' type. It might be brought out as the first part of the long-lookcd-lbr 'Flora of Hants.' A "handy-book" to the I)otany of the Island is. I think, a real desideratum ; and as no one is so competent for the work as Mr. More, I hope, if he reads these remarks; he will consider the matter favourably and " make a note of it."

In such a work as Dr. Bromiield's there are, of course, nuuiy little inaccuracies ; and the number of these was most likely increased by the circumstances under which the work was edited. I may, perhaps, point out some before I dose mv remarks. 'I'here arc some few also which I

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