Stuntz : North American Species of Eleutera 205 



///us.: Hooker, 1. c. 



Exsic: Sull. & Lesq. Muse. Bor. Am. (Ed. 2) 394; Macoun, 

 Can. Muse. 88, 104, 200, 241, 389 (var. Macounii); Ren. & Card- 

 Muse. Am. Sept. Exsic. jj, yyb\ Roll, 410, 411. 



The Kindbergian variety, Macounii, described as having a 

 turgid-oval capsule exserted on long pedicel and leaves less atten- 

 uate, cannot stand, as none of the specimens so labeled in the her- 

 baria examined agree with the printed description or differ ma- 

 terially from Hooker's original description. Lesquereux and 

 James' description of the. species is incorrect in several minor de- 

 tails. 



2. Eleutera pennata (L.) nom. nov. 



Gcunetop/iyte bright green, glossy, large, spreading : primary 

 stems short : secondary stems 7-10 cm., irregularly pinnate, some- 

 times simple : branches usually obtuse, sometimes attenuate : leaves 

 narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or sometimes denticu- 

 late above : costa indistinct, bifid or single : cells small, thin, at 

 apex elongated-rhomboidal, at middle and base linear, sinuous, at 

 angles irregularly quadrate : monoicous : outer perichaetial leaves 

 short, ovate-acuminate, inner long-acuminate, entire, exceeding 

 the capsule. Sporophyte :' capsule, large, oval-oblong, reddish- 

 brown, immersed : calyptra small, whitish, covering lid only : lid 

 conical, short-beaked : teeth linear-subulate, connected at tips, 

 densely articulate, irregularly divided : segments imperfect. (From 

 Latin pennata, furnished with wings.) 



Type, European. 



On trees and rocks. Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, south 

 in mountains to North Carolina, west to Manitoba ; Mexico 



(Bescherelle). 



Syn.: Muscus terrestris major, ramulis comprcssis,foliis super- 



ficie crispis Vaill. Bot. Par. 129. pi. 27. f. 4. 1727. Sphagnum 

 pennatum nndulatum, vagina squamosa Dill. Hist. Muse. 250. //. 

 2. f. q. 1 74 1. Sphagnum caulifcrum et ramosum, foliis crispis, 

 crebris per caulemcapitulis Hall. Enum. Stirp. Helv. 96. pi. 3. f. 2. 

 1742. Fontinalis pennata L. Sp. PI. 137 l - l 7^>3- Hypnum pen- 

 natum Hall. Stirp. Helv. 1297. pi. 45. /. 2. 1768. Weisia pen- • 

 'nata Schrank, Bayer. Fl. 2 : 445. 1789- Neckera pennata Hedw. 

 Muse. Frond. 3 : 47. pi. /p. 1792. Filotrichum pennatum Beauv. 

 Prodr. 83. 1805. Cry ptopodia pennata Rohl. Deutsch. Fl. 3: 82. 





