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will be seen at once that the differences indicated are based on very 
variable characters. Through the kindness of Dr. Howe a portion 
of the type specimen in the Underwood herbarium has been available 
for study. Since this specimen shows no peculiarities sufficient to 
warrant a specific separation from C. catenulata, and since several 
European writers have demonstrated an occasional autoicous in- 
florescence in the latter plant, it seems justifiable to consider the two 
species synonymous. C. catenulata has been recorded from all six 
of the New England states. 
4. CEPHALOZIA MACROSTACHYA Kaalaas, Rev. Bryol. 29:8. - 1902. 
C. multiflora, var. B elata Spruce, On Cephalozia 38. 1902. In bogs. 
Rhode Island: Westerly (4. W. E., April, 1911). Connecticut: 
North Branford (W. R. Dudley, August, 1882); Woodbury (A. W. E., 
June, 1902); Bingham Pond, Salisbury (A. W. E., June 1905); Berlin 
(G. E. Nichols, November, 1910); Andover (A. W. E., July, 1911); 
New Haven (4. W. E., April, 1915). Kaalaas based the present 
species on material collected by E. Ryan at Glemminge, Norway. 
Nine years after its original publication it was reported by Nichol- 
son ! from various localities in Sussex, England, and the following year 
it was recognized as valid by both Macvicar? and K. Muller? The 
latter writer cited stations for the species from Denmark, as well as 
from Norway and England, and predicted its discovery in other 
regions. Later in the same year Schiffner * reported it from various 
localities in Bavaria, from the vicinity of Hamburg, and from 
Sweden, and last year? published the first record for North America, 
based on specimens collected at Freeport, Long Island, in October, 
1898, by M. A. Howe. "The stations given above extend its known 
range into southern New England, and it will probably prove to be 
as widely distributed on this side of the Atlantic as in Europe. The 
New England material has been compared with the various speci- 
mens distributed in Schiffner's Hepaticae Europaeae Exsiccatae and 
also with a portion of the Long Island material, kindly communi- 
cated by Dr. Howe. 
In its dioicous inflorescence C. macrostachya agrees with C. media 
1 Hastings and East Sussex Nat. 1:274 pl. 22, f. 10. 1911. 
? Student's Handb. British Hepatics 263. 1912. 
3 Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora 6? : 56. f. 17. 1912. 
4 Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 62 159. 1912. 
5Hedwigia 54 : 321. 1914. 
