IRbofcora 



JOURNAL OF 



THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol. 4 November, 1902 No. 47 



NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND HEPAT1CAE. 



Alexander W. Evans. 



The species noted below are for the most part recent additions to 

 the hepatic flora of New England, several of them in fact being new 

 to the range of Gray's Manual. Attention is also called to a few 

 species which have been variously understood by hepaticologists and 

 which are even now in more or less confusion with regard to their 

 synonymy. All of the species noted, with the exception of Kantia 

 SuUivantii and Radula obconica, also occur in Europe. The arrange- 

 ment follows that of Schiffner in Engler and Prantl's " Die Natiir- 

 lichen Pflanzenfamilien." 



1. Riccia crystallina L. A few specimens of this well known 

 species were collected by E. B. Harger at Oxford, Connecticut, in 

 1898. The plant has a rather wide distribution in North America 

 but has not hitherto been reported from any stations nearer than 

 Illinois. 



2. Gymnomitrium corallioides Nees, Naturgeschichte der europ. 

 Lebermoose, I: 118. 1833. Acolea corallioides Dumort. Recueil 

 d'Obs. sur les Jung. 23. 1835. Cesia corallioides Carruth. Jour. Bot. 

 3 : 300. 1865. A few fragments of this distinctly alpine species were 

 found in 1897 by Professor Farlow on Mt. Washington, and during 

 the past summer the writer collected several additional specimens 

 along the Crawford Bridle Path. The only North American sta- 

 tions for the species which have hitherto been recorded are Alaska, 

 the Yukon Territory and Greenland, and its discovery in the White 

 Mountains is therefore of much interest. G. corallioides often grows 

 in company with G. concinnafum, which is rather abundant in the 

 White Mountains at high altitudes. The former is however a 

 smaller species with more closely imbricated leaves and its color, 



