This genus may be considered as nearly <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">European</placeName>, & the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />species are nearly confinded, as far as has been hitherto observed <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to the middle districts of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName>. To the north the species become <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />few, and finally disappear in the Arctic circle: About the <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">middle &</add> South <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131">England</placeName>, <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005517 https://www.geonames.org/2921044">Germany</placeName>, & <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004801 https://www.geonames.org/3017382">France</placeName>, they are found in considerable <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />numbers, but, whether through the negligence of botanists I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />know not, <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">but</del> they are scarcely at all found farther south. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />A few of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">European</placeName> species have been found in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890">North a<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />merica</placeName> in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008206 https://www.geonames.org/6254927"><choice> <sic>Pensylvania</sic> <corr cert="high">Pennsylvania</corr> </choice></placeName>, among these are <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>Ph.</abbr> <expan>Phascum</expan> </choice> subulatum</name>, <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">rectum</del> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Phascum</supplied> crispum</name>, <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Phascum</supplied> patens</name>, <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Phascum</supplied> cuspidatum</name>,<add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear"> <name type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Phascum</supplied> crassinervium</name></add>, and perhaps a few others: <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">I consider <lb />Ph. stenophyllum of Voit to be only a variety of;</del> of these <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>Ph.</abbr> <expan>Phascum</expan> </choice> subu<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />latum</name> has I believe also been found in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456">New Holland</placeName>. <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>Ph.</abbr> <expan>Phascum</expan> </choice> co<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />herens</name> and <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>Ph.</abbr> <expan>Phascum</expan> </choice> flexuosum</name> are perhaps the only two confined exclu<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />sively to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890"><choice> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> America</placeName> (<placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008206 https://www.geonames.org/6254927"><choice> <sic>Pensylvania</sic> <corr cert="high">Pennsylvania</corr> </choice></placeName>). <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>Ph.</abbr> <expan>Phascum</expan> </choice> alternifolium</name> occurs <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010934 https://www.geonames.org/2635167">Great Britain</placeName>, in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005517 https://www.geonames.org/2921044">Germany</placeName>, and, if I mistake not at the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000355 https://www.geonames.org/3367577">Cape of Good Hope</placeName> and (if <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003650 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116495995">Bridel</persName>’s <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">Pleuridium</name> be, as I suppose, the <pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2v" facs="http://content.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/dms/PPN829063978/1200/0/00000006.jpg" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">2</fw> same plant), also in the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008769 https://www.geonames.org/934292">Isle of France</placeName>. <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">Phascum nervosum</name> and <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Phascum</supplied> splachnoi<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />deum</name> have been found, & are peculiar to the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000355 https://www.geonames.org/3367577">Cape of Good Hope</placeName>.