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ana); Tatry, Raciborski (C. C. H., Y¥.; distributed in Lilienfeldovna’s Hep. 
Poloniae Exsic., no. 6, as F. lindenbergiana). 
The species has likewise been reported from Sweden, from the Bavarian 
mountains, from the French and Italian Alps, and from the Austrian provinces 
of Tirol, Styria, and Carniola. 
Two names, Fimbriaria lindenbergiana Cloorda and F. bonjeanii DeNot., were 
published almost simultaneously for this distinct and beautiful species. Ff. 
lindenbergiana was based on three specimens, the first from the mountains 
of Salzburg, the second and third from the Faulhorn and the Gemmi, respec- 
tively, in Switzerland. The specimen from Salzburg was eollected by Funck 
and should be considered the type of the species, since it was sent to Nees von 
Esenbeck by Lindenberg. The second and third specimens were collected ap- 
parently by Muhlenbeck, although this is not stated in the original description. 
Fimbriaria bonjeanii was based on material collected by Bonjean on Mont-Cenis, 
in northern Italy. In the Synopsis Hepaticarum fF’. bonjeanté is reduced to 
synonymy. 
Underwood? has stated, however, that separates of the paper by DeNotaris, 
Primitiae Hepaticologiae Italicae, in which the description of F. bonjeanii ap- 
peared, were issued in 1838, a year earlier than the Memoir of the Turin 
Academy, in which the paper was included, was formally published. This 
being the case, doubt might be thrown upon the priority of F. lindenbergiana, 
which also was published in 1838, For a while certain Italian botanists, 
among whom Trevisan and Massalongo may be mentioned, attempted to main- 
tain F. bonjeanii as a species, but when they admitted its identity with PF. 
lindenbergiana they accepted Corda’s specific name without question. Bar- 
sali, in fact, in his careful summary of the Italian literature on the Hepaticae,’ 
gives 1839 definitely as the date for the paper by DeNotaris, and Massalongo * 
has recently followed his example. The claims of F. bonjeanit may therefore 
be dismissed as baseless. 
Asterella lindenbergiana was first reported from America by Gottsche, in 
1864, his record being based on two specimens collected by Lindig in the 
province of Bogoti, Colombia. Schiffner, in 1893,° listed the species not only 
from Colombia but also from Mexico. None of the specimens referred to have 
been available for study, and the writer is therefore unable either to verify 
or to correct these reports. At the same time the occurrence of the species 
in tropical America must be considered doubtful, in view of its distinctly 
northern distribution. The first record for northern North America was made 
by Miss Clark in 1909, on the basis of Frye’s Washington material. Macoun’s 
specimens from British Columbia, however, had been collected over twenty 
years earlier and had been listed by Pearson, in 1890,° under the name Fim- 
briaria violacea Austin, probably on account of their purple pseudoperianths. 
Macoun repeated this record somewhat doubtfully in 1902,’ suggesting that the 
specimens might be referable to Asterella fragrans instead. Meanwhile 
Stephani, in 1899, had made them the type of his F. commutata. Through 
the kindness of Mr. J. M. Macoun, the writer has been able to make a careful 
1Mem, Torrey Club 4: 21. 1893, 
? Bibl. Epat. Ital. 12. 1902. 
* Atti Ist. Veneto 75: 719. 1916. 
Ann, Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 1: 187. 1864. 
°5%n Engl. & Prantl. Pflanzenfam, 1°: 34. 1893. 
®* List Can. Hep. 27. 1890. 
™Cat. Can. Pl. 7: 4. 1902. 
