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I. KNEIFFIELLA ASPERA. 
Thelephora aspera Pers. Mycol, Europ. 1: 153. (excl. icon.) 1822. 
Thelephora setigera Fr. Elenchus, 1: 208. 1828.* 
Kneiffia setigera Fr. Epicrisis, 529. 1836-1838. 
For this species which is the type of the genus, Fries adopts a 
‘name of his own, but at the same time cites in the synonymy an 
earlier name by Persoon, which it is proper to restore to its place 
in the necessary change of the genus. 
2. KNEIFFIELLA CANDIDISSIMA. 
Kneiffia candidissima B. & Rav. Grevillea, 1: 147. 1873. 
3. KNEIFFIELLA TESSULATA. 
Kneiffiia tessulata B. & C. Grevillea, 1: 147. 1873. 
The first named species appears to have a rather widespread 
distribution in the United States and Europe. The other two ap- 
pear from present information to be southern in distribution, 
though much is still to be desired in regard to them. 
Calkins reports Kvneiffia ambigua Karst. from Florida (Journ. 
Mycol. 3: 70), but I have seen no specimens. 
March 9, 1897. 
An undescribed Species of \Kallstroemia from New Mexico. 
By ANNA MurRRAy VAIL. 
KALLSTROEMIA BRACHYSTYLIS. 
A diffuse herb ; stems prostrate, branched, slightly enlarged or 
swollen and very brittle at the nodes, sparingly pubescent with 
short appressed slightly twisted hairs, and fewer longer spreading 
cilia ; stipules lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, ciliate, 
at length caducous ; petioles shorter than the leaflets; leaves 2-5 cm. 
long; leaflets 3-4 pairs, 6-15 mm. long, obliquely oblong or oval- 
oblong, slightly falcate, obtuse, or some of the lower ones acutish, 
ciliate on the margin above with somewhat stiff white hairs, paler, 
hirsute when young, at length glabrous beneath, the basal leaflets 
* I cite the usual date given by Pritzel, Saccardo and others without the means 
at hand of verification. In my copy of Fries Systema, the « Elenchus” is bound im 
with volumes 1 and 2 and bears on the title page the date 1830 and the same title as 
the original Systema with the addition of « Supplementa voluminis, primi.” 
