1904J Evans, — Notes on New England liepaticae, — II 185 



In the Flora of Vermont by Brainerd, Jones, and Eggleston, pub- 

 lished in I goo, under Additions and Corrections, the authors, on 

 page 106, referring to HydropJiyUnm faiiadense as occurring in Ver- 

 mont, cite the specimens collected in Charlotte by Mr. Pringle, and 

 discussed at length by me in the paper above mentioned, on pages 

 156-158, and say that they "were somewhat abnormal but were so 

 named by Dr. Gray." This statement is entirely contrary to the 

 opinion expressed by Dr. Gray to Mr. Pringle that the plant was 

 " a monstrosity or abnormal condition of //. Vir^uiiciDii^^ but Pres. 

 i^rainerd in reply to my inquiry writes me that the note is a "blunder, 

 resulting from mixing up the two names, H. canadense and H. virgin- 

 ii/nn." — Walter De.4.ne, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND HEPATICAE,— II. 



Alexander W. Evans. 



( Continued from page fj.f.) 



10. Lepidozia setacea (G. H. Web.) Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 5 : 103. 1 86 1. Jungcnnaimia setacea G. H. Web. Spic. Fl. Goetting- 

 ensis, 155. 1778. /. sertularioides Linn. f. Suppl. 449. 1781. /. 

 /^/^^//?^r^? Dicks. Ease. PI. Crypt. 2: i^- pl-S./.g. 1790. J . Schultzii 

 Spreng. Plant. Pug. i : 64. 18 13. Blepharostoma setaceum Dumort. 

 Recueil d'Obs. sur les Jung. 18. 1835. Lepidozia sphngnicola Evans, 

 Bull. Torrey Club, 20: 397. //. 162. 1893. The true Lepidozia 

 setacea is much rarer in North America than the printed records 

 would seem to indicate. In fact nearly all of the American material 

 which lias been referred to this species belongs to the following, and 

 this is true even of the specimens distributed in Hep. Bor.-Amer. 

 76 and in Hep. Amer. 85. A number of years ago the writer 

 found an abundant supply of a L^epidozia growing in a bog and, rec- 

 ognizing its distinctness from what had passed for Z. setacea among 

 American writers, described it as new under the name L. sp/iagnicola. 

 Recently, however, these plants have been restudied and carefully 

 compared with European material, and it has become evident that 

 Z. sp/iagnicoia is a synonym of Z. setacea and that it is our much 

 commoner plant growing in woods which is undescribed. Specimens 



