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§ 73. New Localities—Miss Mary C. Reynolds reports shaving 
found Lygodium paimatum, Swartz, the last season, in Hunter 
Greene Co., N. Y. We have not heard of any other locality in our 
State. Mr. I. H. Hall sends us aspecimen of Gentiana Saponaria, 
L., from Cresskill, N. J., a species new to our catalogue. 
§ 74. Additions to the Bryology of the United States, by;Chas. Mohr. 
NO. I. 
Notes on the Bryology of Oregon, with description of two new 
species, by Prot. Dr. Kart Murtier, Halle. 
THE mosses of Oregon are yet but little known, and the amount 
of our knowledge appears still smaller when compared with the 
great progress made in the last ten years regarding the bryological 
flora of California, chiefly due to the zeal of Mr. Bolander and the 
researches of Prof. Lesquereux. By them an entirely new botanical 
region has been laid open, full of the highest interest, not only from 
the acquisition of manifold new forms, but also from the develop- 
ment of important and peculiar facts relating to the distribution of 
‘Species on this continent. What has been brought to light from 
Oregon has also added much to our knowledge of the mosses of the 
western coast of the United States, and points to a field promising 
rich rewards to the investigator in the discovery of forms not only 
new to this country, but new to science, and characteristic of that 
part of the Pacific region. woe 
_ Notwithstanding the large preponderance of species Oregon has 
42 common with Europe and the number of exclusively northwest- 
ern species it shares with other parts of the Pacific coast, every 
collector since the. time of Menzies has made additions of new forms, 
many peculiar to that State, and much more is to be expected from | 
the efforts of future explorers. This has been evinced anew by the 
_ discovery of three new species in a small collection of mosses made 
by the Rey. R. D. Nevitis, near Portland, Oregon. I handed ‘the 
Same over to Dr. K. Mueller, for examination, and he had the kind- 
ness to send me the manuscript of his description of two of the same, 
_to be published in one of our journals. The description of the third 
he has deferred until the arrival of more perfect specimens. Recog- 
hizing it, undoubtedly, as a proper species, he called it Hypnum 
pseudo-sericeum. : 
1. Mnium (Zwnnium) Nevii, C. Miller, x. sp. Hermaphroditum, 
cespites laxi inferne fusco-tomentosi subhumiles; caulis simplex 
inferne fusco-radiculosus gracilis, apice clavato solum_ imbricato- 
foliosus virescens ; folia caulina erecto-conferta regulariter se tegen- 
tia erispatula vel margine undulata, madore reflexo-patula et carno- 
Sula, e basi decurrente serie cellularum angustarum unica formata 
_ breviter cuneata late ovata vel orbiculata, acumine brevi acuto pler- 
_ umnque reflexo terminata, dentibus elongatis plus minus erectis vel re- 
_ Slexis ciliformibus jimbriata, nervo in aristulam excedente, cellu- 
say parvis hexagonis regularibus viridissimis chlorophyllosis, 
_ timbo lato flavido; perich, pauca parva lanceolato-acuminata inte- 
