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ato, margine integerrima vel obtuse dentata; spicula masculina 
rotunda; colore rufo-fusco. 
On trees; Salem, Oregon, EZ. Hall. 
Remarkable for the usually entire (at the apex) innermost in- 
volucral amphigastria. Frequently two or more capsules are suc- 
cessively matured in the same perianth, The species most nearly 
resembles 4! Bolanderi, Aust.; but that is smaller and of a fuscous 
color, with shorterstems, more imbricated Jeaves and 2 much more 
compressed auricle, upper lobe of the involucral leaves broader, the 
lower one narrower and acute or acutish at the apex, innermost am- 
phigastria of the involucre acutely 2 (-4) toothed at the apex, 
male spike ovate-oblong, &c. 
Size and general habit about as in 2 inflata, Gott, F. Sullivanti, 
Aust., and # Oakesiana, Aust.; however, among other points of 
difference, none of these have entire involucral amphigastria ; nor 
do any of them have the tooth on the margin of the involucral 
leaves situated above the middle of the lowerlobe (as in both & 
Haliti and F! Bolanderi). 
13. Rhossalanthus mnioides, nov. gen. et spec. Lindb. in litt. 
Aug., 1874.—The above genus is founded upon specimens collected 
in Japan, by the N. Pac. Expl. Expd., under Com. Rodgers, and 
recently sent by me to Dr. Lindberg. He reports it as being a very 
distinct new genus, allied to Scaliz, B. Gr. (Haplomitrium, Nees). 
—Stems erect (always ?) about one inch high, rootless, flattish, and 
aneura-like but thick and solid. Leaves roundish, lax, decurrent, 
wavy, of contorted; the lower small, distant; the upper much 
larger and becoming crowded at the apex into a sort of cup-like 
involucre. Small, oval, naked antheridia (apparently tubers), are 
borne on the base of the innermost whorl of leaves on the inside; also 
occasionally in the axils of other of the upperleaves. Fruit not seen. 
14, Thallocarpus. Cryptocarpus, nov. gen. Aust. in Proc, Phila. 
Acad. for Mar., 1869, p. 231. 
Thallocarpus Curtisii. Cryptocarpus Curtisii, Aust. 1. ¢.— 
According to Dr. Lindberg in a recent letter, there are amongst the 
Chenopodiacee a Cryptocarpus, H. B. K.; and among the Musci 
( Orthvtriche) also a Cryptocarpus, D. M.¥7 wherefore the above 
change. The plant evidently belongs, with Spherocarpus (its 
nearest ally), to the Jungermaniacee. 
§ 17. Publications Received.—1. Wotice biographique sur Charles- 
Frederic Meissner, parM. Aliph. de Candolle. Extrait du Bulletin de 
la Société botanique de France, November, 1874. Dr. Gray, in his 
notice of Meissner in the BuLieTin for June, 1874, says: “For 
the details of the life of this excellent botanist and estimable 
man we must wait until the tributes to his memory arrive,” 
which his associates in his native Switzerland and in the 
chief centres of science in Europe are sure to offer.” M. de Can- 
dolle makes these words of Dr. Gray the occasion of the pres- 
ent notice. Meissner (originally Meissncr) was born at Berne, 
November Ist, 1800. He became Professor of Medicine in the 
University of Basle in 1828, but in 1830 changed the chair of 
medicine for that of botany, which he held till 1866, when infirmities 
obliged him to retire. M. de Candolle bears testimony to the 
conscientiousness of his work, and his untiring diligence.” His 
