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indusiata Bridel, by Professor D. C. Eaton. The description of 
this species there given (Vol. 17: p. 126, 1890), fitted my 
specimens exactly, so that I was convinced that I had found this 
rare plant. Moreover, the single plant of Buxbaumia indusiata, 
in Mougeot and Nestler’s « Stirp. Crypt: Vogeso-Rhenanz,” num-: 
ber 724, in the Herbariun. of Cornell University, is, externally, 
almost exactly similar to my specimens. All doubt as to the 
identity of my plants were thus dispelled. 
This is, so far as I am aware, the fourth instance of the occur- 
rence of this species in America. Those given by Professor Eaton 
are: Seattle, Washington, June, 1889, by Mr. C. V. Piper, and 
Catskill Mountains, New York, October, 1869, by Professor C. H. 
Peck. Specimens were also collected by Mr. J. B. Leiberg, in 
Idaho, Traille River basin, 1889 (But. Torr. Cius, 1891, p. 49). 
It will thus be seen, that of the four known American stations, two 
are in New York State, and two in the extreme West. 
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B. indusiata occurs always on decayed logs, usually on coni- 
ferous ones, although my specimens were on some other wood. 
In my experience, B. aphylla occurs always on the ground, in 
high woods, on black moist earth, covered with a greenish, con- 
fervoid growth. | ae es 
Euias J. DURAND. 
BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, CORNELL UNIVERSITY. Sie ot 
