Swiss Hepatics 
by RP 
WM'HY PEARSON 
The Rev. P. G. M. Rhodes sent me a short time ago a small 
collection of Hepaticæ, to confirm his names or name them, 
which he had collected in July of this year (1922). aie 
They are from the Grand $. Bernard on the Swiss side ôt the 
pass or in two cases from a few yards over the Italian frontier, 
together with one plant from Cant. Fribourg. ane 
Passionately fond a: I have been all my life of mountaineering, 
I have now to have to be content to climb in imagination, and 
when I am examining such alpine species as Scapania helvetica 
or Anthelia Juratzkana, 1 can imagine being with my reverend 
friend picking up these rarities in the glorious St-Bernard Pass, 
which I have never sesn, except the photographs which I have 
frequently had the pleasure of seeing in Lectures with lantern 
slides given by the members of the Rucksack Club. éme 
The following is a list of the species arranged according to 
the Catalogue of the Moss Exchange Club, along with notes on 
the same. The most interesting species in the collection are 
Scapania Lelvelica Gottsche, a marsh form of Lophozia Lyont 
(TayL) & the alpine form of Alicularia Geoscyphus. en 
. MarsupecLa SprucEr (Limpr) Bernet. rt 
Damp ground, Plar de Jupiter, Grand St-Bernard, 2450 metres. 
Italy (1654). I picked out a few stems from a patch of Anthelia 
© Jaratrkana. they had perianths adnate to the outer bracts, 
pa oicous inflorescence, bracts with acute segments ; I mounted 
a slide which 1 sent to M. Rhodes who confirms the determination. 
ALICULARIA SCALARIS (Schrad.) Corda. RSR 
On earth, at 2.230 mètres. Combes des Morts, Grand St-Ber- 
nard, Valais, (1710). RE nt AR Ro 
Azicucarta Geoscypaus De Not. AR Se 
Rocky soil, at 2.480 metres, Mont Mort, Grand S$t-Bernar 
Valais, (1688). Spor Fate 
1 have little doubt but what this is the type of Nees : 
 Limpricht’s A. minor ; the plant is very small, the stem v 
= short, consisting almost only of the involuere, the paroïic 
__ inflorescence and the emarginate bracts and leaves easily et 
toi Be rvéo 
+ Haplozia atrovirens (Schrad). Dum. 
= Shady rocks, cirea 950 metres, Albeuve Valle 
