58 Rhodora [Marcu 
N. insecta Lindb. l. c. Jungermannia dovrensis Limpr. Jahresb. 
Schlesischen Ges. für vaterl. Cultur 61: 10. 1884. Nardia minor 
Arn. Lebermoosstudien im nordl. Norwegen 39. 1892. N. Silvret- 
tae Pears. Hepat. British Isles 372. pl. 172. 1901. Mesophylla 
minor Corb.; Bouvet, Bull. Soc. d'Étud. Scient. d'Angers for 1902: 
189. 1903. Judging from the above synonymy the specific name 
haematosticta is apparently available for the present species, and 
Lindberg's combination Nardia haematosticta has been rather exten- 
sively adopted. Jungermannia haematosticta Nees, however, was 
never effectively published by its author, according to either the 
Vienna Rules or the Association Code, both of which state that inci- 
dental mention of a name is not publication. The note referred to 
in which the name appears is given under Alicularia scalaris B minor 
and states that Nees von Esenbeck had formerly sent specimens of 
this variety to his friends under the name Jungermannia haematosticta. 
This cannot be considered as anything more than incidental mention, 
even though the implication is made that the plant might perhaps be 
regarded as worthy of specific rank. The name must therefore be 
discarded, and the species must bear the later name Geoscyphus of 
De Notaris, according to the 49th Article of the Vienna Rules. As 
originally proposed this name had a substantive form and did not 
agree in gender with the generic name Alicularia. Some of the later 
writers who have used it have changed it to an adjective form, but this 
course can hardly be warranted. It should also be noted that Trevisan? 
published the combination Nardia Geoscyphus in the same year as 
Lindberg, but apparently later in the year because Massalongo? 
quotes Lindberg rather than ‘Trevisan as the author of the name. 
According to Stephani? Alicularia Rotaeana De Not. (Mem. R. Accad. 
Sci. di Torino II. 18: 484. f. II [1-14]. 1859) is also a synonym of 
the present species? but Massalongo* considers it a form of Nardia 
scalaris (Schrad.) S. F. Gray instead, and the figures of De Notaris 
certainly give strong support to this latter view. Nardia Geoscyphus 
was first recorded as a New England plant from specimens collected 
along the Crawford Bridle Path in the White Mountains. It has 
1A full description of the species under this name was published by the writer in 
Proc. Wash. Acad. 2: 296. 1900. See also Ruopora 4: 209. 1902; and b: 172. 
1903. 
2 Rend. R. Ist. Lomb. di Sci. e Lett. II. 2: 784. 1874. 
3 Ann, R. Ist. Bot. di Roma 8: (5). 1888. 
1 Bull. de l'Herb. Boissier II. 2: 40. 1902. 
