Of the Genuine <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">Trichostoma</name>, the greater part are <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">European</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />and are most plentiful in the mountainous, or subalpine dis<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />stricts: a few are found in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890">North america</placeName>, but there are none pe<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#mMM">culiar to it, all of them likewise occurring in <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName>: <subst> <del rendition="#s">thus</del> <add place="superlinear">For</add> </subst> <name type="plant"><choice> <abbr>T.</abbr> <expan>Trichostomum</expan> </choice> Cana<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />dense</name> is <subst> <del rendition="#s">only a variety of</del> <add place="intralinear">identical with </add> </subst><name type="plant"><choice> <abbr>T.</abbr> <expan>Trichostomum</expan> </choice> canescens</name>. & <name type="plant"><choice> <abbr>T.</abbr> <expan>Trichostomum</expan> </choice> obtusi<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />folium</name> is noways different from <name type="plant"><choice> <abbr>T.</abbr> <expan>Trichostomum</expan> </choice> aciculare</name>. <add place="left"><metamark /><name type="plant"><choice> <abbr>T.</abbr> <expan>Trichostomum</expan> </choice> lanugi<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />nosum</name> is <lb />found every<lb break="no" />where – in <lb /><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007374 https://www.geonames.org/3895114">Chili</placeName>, <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008847 https://www.geonames.org/3996063">Mexico</placeName>, <lb />&c.</add> Of the true <name type="plant">Tri<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />chostoma</name> one or two species occur in <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName>. There is also <lb />a section of spurious ones (with long vaginating perichaetia that <lb />when better understood may be probably joined to a different <lb />genus), <name type="plant"><choice> <abbr>T.</abbr> <expan>Trichostomum</expan> </choice> perichaetiale</name>, & <name type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Trichostomum</supplied> cylindricum</name> both in <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/KGXH66T9"><persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X">Hookers</persName> Musci Exotici </bibl></hi> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that come the one from <space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="words" /> & the other from <space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="words" /> . <note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" hand="#author" place="mBottom">One species <name type="plant"><choice> <abbr>T.</abbr> <expan>Trichostomum</expan> </choice> polyphyllum</name> seems very widely distributed; it has been found <lb />in <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010380 https://www.geonames.org/6255150">South America</placeName> by M M. <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">Humboldt</persName> & <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003476 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118661604">Bonpland</persName>, at at the <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000355 https://www.geonames.org/3367577">cape of <lb />Good Hope</placeName> by <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003784 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117641049"><choice> <abbr>M<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Mister</expan> </choice> Burchell</persName>.</note>