282 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Davy (N. Y.) ; Duncan's Mills, Sonoma County, Howe (C. C. H., N. Y.) ; Olema, 
Marin County, Jepson (Y.); Mill Valley, Marin County, Howe (N. Y.); Marin 
County, Parsons (N. Y.); Mount Tamalpais, Howe (U. 8.); Berkeley, Howe 
(N. Y., U. 8.) ; San Leandro, Underwood (N. Y.); Mount Diablo, Contra Costa 
County, Howe (N. Y.); San Francisco and vicinity, prior to 1870, Bolander 
(N. Y.; type), Rattan 6452 (U.S8.), 7. 8S. Brandegee 3 (N. Y.), K. Brandegee 
(C. C. H.); Stanford University and vicinity, Campbell (N. Y., Y.); same 
locality, Baker (N. Y., C .C. H., U. S.; distributed in Pacif. Sl. Bry., no. 763, as 
Fimbriaria californica) ; Santa Cruz, Farlow (N. Y., Y.); Kaweah River Val- 
ley, Tulare.County, Coville € Funston 1304 (N. Y., U. S.; listed by Coville, as 
Fimbriaria californica, in Contr. U. 8S. Nat. Herb. 4: 230. 1893); Santa Bar- 
bara, Farlow 12 (N. Y.) ; Nordhoff, Ventura County, Newton (N. Y.) ; Pasadena, 
Underwood (N. Y.); same locality, McClatchie 26, 27 (N. Y.; listed by the col- 
lector, as Fimbriaria californica, in Fl. Pasadena 624. 1895); same locality, 
Teed (N, Y., U. S., ¥.; distributed by Underwood & Cook in Hep. Amer., no. 
119, as Fimbriaria californica) ; same locality, Kingman 737 (C. C. H.); Mil- 
lards Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, Kingman 640 (C. C. H.; listed by the 
collector in Bryologist 14: 34. 1911); Verdugo Canyon, Warner (C. C. H.); 
Santa Monica, Hasse (N. Y.); Santa Anita Canyon, Morley 455 (C. C. H., Y.); 
Santa Ana Hills, San Bernardino Mountains, Parish 1728, 1730 (N. Y.); San 
Diego, Farlow 14 (N. Y.) ; Twin Oaks, San Diego County, Koch (N. Y.) ; Witch 
Creek, San Diego County, Alderson 770, 908, 912 (CG. C. H., N. Y.). Many of 
these specimens have already been listed by Howe (Mem. Torrey Club 7: 50. 
1899). 
Lower CALiFrornia : Guadalupe Island, 1875, Palmer 118 (N. Y.; listed by Wat- 
son, Proc. Amer, Acad, 10: 121. 1875), Anthony 54 (N. Y.). 
Macoun®* lists the species from the following localities in British Columbia: 
Lytton, 1889, J. Macoun, and Pass Creek, Columbia River, J. Macoun. Acecord- 
ing to a specimen from Lytton in the herbarium of the Canadian Geological 
Survey, the first of these records was based on Reboulia hemisphaerica; in 
the absence of Pass Creek specimens the second record must therefore be con- 
sidered as open to suspicion. 
Underwood's original description of Asterella californica is incomplete but 
calls attention to the broad and “ undulate-lobed” thallus with a brownish 
purple margin; to the stout, pale purple, and sparingly pilose peduncle; to the 
subhemispherical and usually 4-lobed receptacle; and to the large, 12 to 16-cleft 
pseudoperianth. Stephani supplies several additional details, emphasizing 
among other features the large purple scales with 2 or 3 lanceolate appendages, 
the distinctly bilabiate involucres, the yellow spores with broad and rough 
crests, and the unispiral or bispiral elaters. Unfortunately his description in- 
cludes a few disconcerting statements about the branching and the inflores- 
cence. He makes no mention whatever of branching by forking but describes 
the thallus as being simple or with apical innovations, and he assigns a 
monoicous inflorescence to the species, with androecia borne on minute ven- 
tral branches. These errors are not repeated by Howe, who correctly de- 
scribes the branching as dichotomous and the inflorescence as dioicous, a full 
account of the male inflorescence being included. Howe's description and 
figures,” in fact, are so complete that they leave little to be desired. His dis- 
cussion of Austin’s Sauteria limbata is also of much interest. He shows 
clearly that the species is a composite, being based on male material of A. 
*Cat. Canad. Pl. 7: 3. 1902. 
*Mem. Torrey Club 7: 48. pl. 95, 96. 1899. 
