_ decrescentia, ex apice rotundato mucronata; mucro validus 
 rufus usque ad 1/4 folii longus, margo reflexus e basi usque 
haud longe ab apice; nervus (more Desmat. nervosi) teres, 
ascendendo incrassatus, basi ex cellulis latis fere uniformibus 
conflatus, superne in pagine dorsali ex crasso fasciculo cellu- 
larum substereidarum ad duas cellulas majores medianas 
_ innixo, singulas cellulas aquiferas involvente composito : in 
pagina ventrali stratus ex 4 cellulisamplis,eo modo ut in Des- 
mat. nervoso, cellulas binas medianas obtegit ; lamina folio- 
_ rumex cellulis 41-16 microm. latis, hexagonis vel quadran- 
_ gulis, lævibus, chlorophyllo repletis conflata, basin versus 
. cellulæ sunt diaphanælongiores. Folia perihætii haud dissimilia, 
_ majora. Pedicellus 3-5 mill. longus, inferne dextrorsum, 
_ Superne sinistrorsum tortus, rufescens. Vaginula ovato-con- 
oidea. Capsula erecta, ovata, atrobrunnea, siccate plicata. 
 Calyptra haud visa. Operculum conicum, vix 1/4 longit.cap- 
_sulæ, margine cum 2-3 seriebus cellularum minorum, superne 
Cum paucis cellulis majoribus vix vestigia inclinatiouis præ- 
bentibus. Cellulæ exothecii ad orificium parvulæ, cum anulo 
uniseriato distincto, ceteræ quadrato-hexagonæ majores; 
dentes peristomi in tubo basilari brevi, tesselato_insidentes, | 
16, irregulariter bifidi, fulvi, vix dextrorsum inclinati, 7-8 cen- 
timill. metientes ; crures filiformes, ob frequentes papillas” 
protuberantes hispida. Sporæ 17-20 micromill. crassa, crasse 
>apillosa, flavicantia. DA in. 
_Gette plante a été trouvée aux bords de la mer à Boulogne 
(dép. du Pas-de-Calais) par le frère Gasilien. de 
VENTURI. 
Eustichia porvegica in fruit. 
… This comparatively rare moss has been known. in the vege- 
tative condition for many years. It occurs in different parts of 
he world, and has been found in half a dozen or more loca- 
_lities in this que In the fruiting condition, however, it is 
little known. Mrs. É. G. Britton discovered itin fruit at th 
dells of the Visconsin river, near Kilbourn City, Wisconsin, in 
July, 1883, and described the fruit in the Bulletin of the Torrey 
: Botanical Club 10 : 99. 1883. Seventeen fruiting specimens 
were found. These, up to the present summer, were all that 
were known to exist. The herbarium of the University of Wis- 
 Consin is now, however, in possession of a sufficient quantity 
infruiling condition to distribute to allbryologists desiring it(l). 
à Hi Addrèss applications for spéciniens to D: Charles R. Bars 
per of Botany in the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis- 
