150 .. Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
"Mitt; Godman, Nat, Hist. Azores 319. 1870. Southbya biformis 
Aust. Hep. Bor.-Amer. 26. 1873. Aplozia hyalina Dumort. Hep. 
Eur. 58. 1874. Southbya hyalina Husnot, Hep. Gall. 16. 1875. 
Nardia biformis Lindb. Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn. 10: 530. 1875. Eucalya 
hyalinus Breidl. Mitt. Nat. Ver. Steiermark 30: 292. 1894. Meso- 
phylla hyalina Corbière, Rev. Bryol. 31: 13. 1904. [Text figs. 1-9.] 
On banks or earth-covered rocks. Maine: banks of the St. John 
River, Fort Kent (A. W. E.); St. John Pond, upper reaches of the 
St. John River (G. E. Nichols). New Hampshire: Randolph (A.W.E.). 
Vermont: Newfane (M. A. Howe 32); Quechee Gulf, Hartford (A. 
Lorenz 773); Brandon (D. L. Dutton 440, 726); Rochester, road from 
Brandon (4. Lorenz). Massachusetts: West Newbury (C. C. 
Haynes); Mt. Greylock (A. L. Andrews); Granville (A. Lorenz). 
Connecticut: Ansonia (J. A. Allen); Middletown (A. W. E.); Nau- 
gatuck (A. W. E., G. E. Nichols); Canterbury (S. B. Hadley); Water- 
town (A. Lorenz). Specimens from the following stations outside 
New England have likewise been examined by the writer: Lime Kiln 
Falls, Herkimer County, New York (C. C. Haynes); near Closter, 
New Jersey (C. F. Austin; distributed in Hep. Bor.-Amer. 28 in part, 
as Jungermannia hyalina); Delaware Water Gap, New Jersey (C. F. 
Austin; distributed in Hep. Bor.-Amer. 26, as Southbya biformis); 
Milford, Pennsylvania (G. E. Nichols); Auburn, Alabama (F. E. 
Lloyd & F. S. Earle); Ohio (L. Lesquereux; distributed in Austin’s 
Hep. Bor.-Amer. 28 in part, as Jungermannia hyalina); Urbana, 
Ohio (Mrs. M. P. Haines); Thompson Ledge, Geauga County, Ohio 
(O. Hecker); Fayette, Wisconsin (L. S. Cheney); dells of the Wisconsin 
River, Wisconsin (L. M. Underwood); valleys of the Montreal and 
Wisconsin Rivers, Wisconsin (L. S. Cheney 3659, 3680, 3703, 5128, 
4152); Galesville, Wisconsin (J. M. Holzinger); Pacific, Missouri 
(N. L. T. Nelson 2024). Several of these specimens are in the her- 
barium of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Since the discovery of Nardia hyalina in the British Isles, over a 
century ago, its known range in Europe has gradually been extended 
until it now includes the greater part of the continent. There, as on 
this side of the Atlantic, the species prefers low altitudes, rarely 
ascending above the foothills of the mountains. Outside of Europe 
it is known in the Old World from the Azores, Madeira and the Cana- ` 
ries, from Tunis, and from the southern shores of the Black Sea. 
Its range in America is still incompletely known. What is apparently 
