304 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
taining oil bodies as in A, elegans; green and compact tissues as in A. lateralis; 
ventral scales ovate to broadly ovate or lunulate, deeply pigmented throughout 
or with hyaline borders and appendages, the slime papillae inconspicuous and 
usually short-lived ; cells containing oil bodies usually 15 to 30, mostly scattered 
but sometimes irr pairs or small groups, tending to be more numerous in the acro- 
petal portion; appendages usually borne singly but sometimes in pairs, slightly 
or not at all constricted at the base, narrowly lanceolate or subulate, mostly 
0.5 to 0.75 mm. long and 0.1 to 0.15 mm. wide, acuminate, entire or vaguely and 
irregularly crenulate; cells mostly 70 to 80 X 30 to 40 uw; inflorescence autoicous; 
male inflorescence borne on a very short, subclavate, scarcely expanded branch, 
consisting of a vaguely defined median group of about 10 antheridia with short 
ostioles, marginal paleae wanting (so far as observed); female inflorescence 
borne on a short and expanded, emarginate or obcordate branch; peduncle more 
or less pigmented with purple except in the upper part, loosely or densely pilose 
and with a more persistent apical cluster, mostly 1 to 8 cm. high; disk of 
receptacle mostly 2.5 to 4 mm. across, covered with very low tubercles or essen- 
tially smooth, becoming rugose when dry; lobes mostly 4, short but distinct, ex- 
tending obliquely downward, the central portion hemispherical to bluntly sub- 
conoidal; pseudoperianth white or more or less pigmented with purple, mostly 
10 to 12- (or sometimes up to 16 or 18) cleft, with lanceolate divisions connate 
at the apex; capsule pale brown, circumscissile by an irregular line, the oper- 
culum coming off in fragments; spores yellow to brown, mostly 65 to 100 p 
in diameter, with wavy wings 8 to 12 uw wide along the edges, the margins 
of wings a little darker ; entire surface of spore minutely and irregularly punctu- 
late but without distinct lines, the spherical face showing in addition a coarse 
regular reticulum, the meshes mostly 12 to 20 w across, inclosed by a system of 
thin ridges similar to the wings, the plane faces with similar reticula; elaters 
yellow to brown, mostly 160 to 220 » long and § to 12 # Wide, tapering slightly 
toward the blunt ends, mostly bispiral in the middle and sometimes through- 
out but usually unispiral at the ends for a variable distance. 
On banks, sometimes shaded; known only from California. The following 
specimens have been examined: 
CALIFORNIA: Without definite localities, Coulter 841 (N. Y.), 1864-70, Bo- 
lander (N. Y., U. S., Y¥.); Ukiah, Mendocino County, Howe 794 (N. Y.): 
Hoods Peak, Sonoma County, Bioletti (N. Y.) ; Howell Mountain, Napa County, 
Setchell (N, Y.); Olema, Marin County, Jepson (N. Y., U. S.); Mill Valley, 
Marin County, Howe (C. C. H., N. Y¥., U. S., Y.3 also distributed by Under- 
wood & Cook in Hep. Amer., no, 158, as Fimbriaria bolanderi) ; same locality, 
Blasdale (C. C. H., N. Y.); San Rafael, 1865, Bolander (N. Y., Y.; type; also 
distributed by Austin in Hep. Bor, Amer., no. 186d, as F. bolanderi) ; Auburn, 
Bolander (N. ¥., Y.); same locality, Pulsifer-Ames (N, Y.) ; Jackson, Amador 
County, Hansen 1615, 2101, ete. (N. Y.); Middle Fork, Amador County, Han- 
sen 1020 (N. Y., U. 8.) ; White Bar, Amada, Calaveras County, Hansen (C. C, 
H.); Antioch, Contra Costa County, 7. S. Brandegee (GC. C. H.); Fruitvale, 
Alameda County, Howe (N. Y.); near Stanford University, Baker (C. C. H., 
NX. Y., U. 8.; distributed in Pacif. Sl. Bry., no. 629, as Fimbriaria violacea) ; 
Los Burros Trail, Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County, Eastwood (N. 
Y.); Pasadena, McClatchie (N. Y.); Twin Oaks, San Diego County, Koch (N. 
Y.). Many of these specimens have already been recorded by Howe under 
either A. bolanderi or A. violacea (Mem. Torrey Club 7: 52, 54. 1899). 
Austin, in his original description of F. bolanderi, emphasized the short 
ventral branches bearing the male and female inflorescences as one of the dis- 
tinctive features of the species. According to his statements it shared this 
