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At the same time it must be admitted that culture experiments in the 
future may necessitate different interpretations. With regard to Oh. 
ascendens the evidence is less convincing; the diagnostic characters 
separating it from Ch. pallescens are both vague and inconstant, and 
the writer is still inclined to deny it recognition as a species. In any 
case the discussion given below of these three plants, all of which are 
widely distributed in eastern North America, may prove of interest. 
The present paper records also several Hepaticae which are new to 
New England, the most noteworthy of which is perhaps the rare 
northern species Neesiella pilosa. In conclusion several additions to 
local state floras are reported. 
1. NEESIELLA PILOSA (Hornem.) Schiffn. Hedwigia 47:314. 1908. 
On a ledge at base of cliff. Willoughby Mountain, Willoughby, 
Vermont (F. G. Floyd, 1898). New to New England, but recently 
reported from Bic, Quebec (J. F. Collins) and previously known in 
North America from Greenland. The range of the species extends 
across northern Europe into Siberia. The characteristics of this 
interesting plant were given by the writer in the Bryologist for Septem- 
ber, 1911, so that it is unnecessary to repeat them here. The Vermont 
specimens are very fragmentary. A single carpocephalum with a 
weathered thallus was received from W. G. Farlow several years ago, 
but although its reference to N. pilosa seemed probable, it was con- 
sidered unwise to base a definite record upon it. Fortunately more 
complete material, obtained from the herbarium of G. G. Kennedy, 
has since been received from Miss Lorenz. 
2. Lornozi4 Hatcuert (Evans) Steph. Bull. de l'Herb. Boissier 
II. 2:159. 1902. Jungermannia Hatcheri Evans, Bull. Torrey Club 
25: 417. pl. 346, f. 1-7. 1898. Lophozia Baueriana Schiffn. Lotos 51: 
(9). 1903. Barbilophozia Hatcheri Loeske, Verhandl. Bot. Ver. 
Prov. Brandenburg 49: 37. 1907. "The writer has already noted this 
species, under the name L. Baueriana, from a single New England 
locality, namely: Little Saddleback Mountain, Franklin County, 
Maine (Chamberlain & Knowlton) No other New England stations 
can as yet be reported, but Conklin has recently shown that the species 
has a wide range in North America, extending from Quebec to British 
Columbia and California? The synonymy given above is now pretty 
1 RuoponRA 10: 188. 1908. A few additional synonyms may be found here. 
2 Bryologist 15: 12. 1912. 
