Var. 3. caulibus 2-3-pollicaribus, foliis angustioribus luteo-viridibus nitentibus inferioribus fuscis.
Var. 4. caule elongato graciliore.
Var. 5. caule elongato, foliis subcirrhosis brevinerviis.
Had.. Hermite Island, Cape Horn; var. 1. wet rocks in the woods; var. 2, roots of trees (barren). Falkland Islands; var. 5. springy places, forming large green masses. Kerguelen's Land ; var. 3. wet places on the hills (barren) ; var. 4. wet bogs (barren).
The second of these varieties resembles very closely the European plant.
8. Hypnum subpilosum, Hook. fil. et Wils. ; caule fastigiato-ramoso, foliis cordato-ovatis imbricatis suberectis acuminatis subpiliferis coucavis striatis serridatis ruptinerviis. (Tab. CLIV. Fig. IV.)
Hab. Hermite Island, Cape Horn; in moist earth, near the tops of the hills, altitude 1500 feet.
Monoicum. Caules laxe caespitosi, sesquiuneiales, vage ramosi, subfastigiati ; rami patentes, subrecurvi. Folia arete imbricata, suberecta, conlato-ovata, repente acuminata, acumine fere piliformi, reflexiuscula, concava, subphcata, serrulata, nervo crasso medio exarata, lsete viridia, inferiora squalida, areohs angustis. Seta inferne lsevis, superne scabriuscula. (Csetera desunt).
Closely allied to H. rutahdum, but smaller and more rigid, the leaves more closely imbricated and almost piliferous.
Plate CLIV. Fig. IV. — 1, plant of the natural size ; 2, leaf : — magnified.
9. Hypnum albicans, Dill. Neck. ; Hedw. Muse. Frond, vol. 4. t. 5. Hook, et Tayl. Muse. Brit. p. 167. t. xxv.
Y"ar. caule elongato, foliis luteo-viridibus.
Hab. Hermite Island ; in moist places and streams, not uncommon (barren).
This resembles Var. 4. of H. rutahdum, but has more distinctly striated leaves.
10. Hypnum serpens, Dill. Linn. ; Hedw. Muse. Frond, vol. iv. t. 18. Hook et Tayl. Muse. Brit. p. 153. t. xxiv.
Var. 1 . foliis subsecundis subsolidinerviis.
Var. 2. foliis ovatis brevioribus latioribus.
Hab. Kerguelen's Land; both varieties on the rhizomata of the "Cabbage", Pringlea, (barren).
d. Foliis imbricatis subencrviis, seta laterali.
11. Hypnum chlamydophyllum, Hook. fil. et Wils. ; Fl. Antarct. pt. 1. p. 139. t. lix. fig. i.
Hab. Hermite Island ; moist rocks on the hill-tops, altitude 1400 ft., rare.
Also a native of Tasmania and Campbell's Island.
12. Hypnum auricula turn ; Montagne in Voy. au Bole Sud, Bot. Crypt, p. 331. t. 20. f. 3.
Hab. Strait of Magalhaens, M. Jacquinot.
13. Hypnum lucidulum, Hook. fil. et Wils. ; caule ramoso humili, foliis erecto-patentibus ovato-acuminatis apice attenuatis integerrimis margine refiexis basi 1-2-nerviis, seta lsevi, theca cernua ovato-oblonga. (Tab. CLV. Fig. I.)
