159 
Of the 107 days spent in the field, 83 were rainy, and ten 
cords of wood were consumed in keeping up fires to extract the 
moisture from his dryers. us 
The report shows that the flora of Yakutat Bay is divided 
between two zones, one extending from sea level to timber line, 
the other from timber line to the perpetual snow line. The gen- 
eral character of the flora is circumpolar. 
The remarks concerning the distribution of certain species, 
and others whose fruits are used as food by the natives, are 
quite interesting. Five of the latter are enumerated: Viburnum 
pauciflorum, Vaccinium ovalifolium, Rubus spectabilis and Fragaria 
Chiloensis. These are mixed with seal oil and devoured with great 
gusto by the Indians. The bulbs of Fritillaria Kamschatensis and 
the leaf-stalks of Heracleum lanatum are also eaten. 
Only one new plant is described, Juncus falcatus Alaskensts, 
but full notes are given under nearly all of the species enumer- 
ated. A. A. HELLER. 
Musci americae septentrionali exsiccati, Notes sur quelques 
espéces distribuées dans cette collection par F. Renauld et J. Gar- 
dot. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 4: 1-19. 1896. 
This is an enlarged and extended copy of the notes distributed 
in 1894 to the subscribers to the sets of their exsiccatae, including 
the numbers from 1-250. Most of the changes have already been 
recorded, either in these manuscript notes or in the check list 
published by the same authors in 1893. The following, how- 
ever, arenew: Aypnum micans Sw. is transferred from Raphi- 
dostegium to Isopterygium ; No. 132, distributed as Hypuum fiuitans, — 
is referred to the var. /eanbernati Ren.; Grimmia pachyphylla Lei- ‘ 
berg has been changed to G. Letbergit Paris, Index Bryologicus, 
there being already a G. pachyphylla C. M. from Tierra del Fuego; : 
Dicranella Howeii is reduced to a form of D. varia; Dicranum 
Mariae Holz. ined. is compared with D. strictum and D. rhabdocar- 
pum: D. fuscescens var. Eatoni, is described and compared with» s. 
- var. flexicaule ; Fissidens falcatulus is said to be too close to 
exiguus Sull.; F. pauperculus Howe is said to agree with descrip- ; 
tions of F. Arnoldi ; Bryum sanguilentum is raduced to asubspecies) 
of B. capillare ; Camptothecium lutescens is said to include both 
Hypnum fulgescens Mitt. and Homalothecium pseudosericeum C. M.; - 
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