208 Stuxtz : North American Species of Eleutera 



apex, often covered with lateral filiform flagella, forming a dense 

 brush : leaves oblong, Ungulate, apiculate or sometimes obtuse, 

 undulate : more or less regularly denticulate half way to base : 





costa y 2 — % length of leaf: cells at apex irregularly rhomboidal, 

 at middle and base narrow-oblong : dioicous : perichaetial leaves 

 small, long-acuminate, denticulate, costate to apex : cells linear. 

 Sporopliyte : capsule reddish-brown, immersed or emergent, seta 

 length of capsule : calyptra with few hairs or none : lid oblique, 

 acute : teeth slender, nodose, articulate : segments very slender, 

 split between the few articulations. (In honor of Archibald 

 Menzies (i 754-1 842), who collected the species in the Rocky 

 Mountains.) 



Type locality, Rocky Mountains. 



On trees and rocks. Alaska and Vancouver Island to Banff 

 and Flathead Lake, Montana, south to Yosemite and Russian 

 Valleys and Marion Co., California. 



Syn. : Neckera Menziesii Drummond, Muse. Bor. Am. 162. 

 Neckera Menziesii Hook, in Drumm. Muse. Bor. Am. (Ed. 

 162 (according to Paris, Ind. Bryol. 853). Neckera Menziesii 

 amblyclada Kindb. in Macoun, Cat. Can. PI. Musci, 162. 1892. 



Wits. : Sull. Icon. Muse. Suppl. pL 62. 



Exsic. : Drumm. Muse. Bor. Am. 162 type ; Sull. & Lesq. 



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198, 238, 397, 796, 567 (var. amblyclada), 253, 927 (va: 

 losa) f 94 (approaching var. limnobioides) ; Roll, 496, 497. 



tflagy 



3a. Eleutera Menziesii limnobioides (Ren. & Card.) 



nom. nov. 



Gamctophytc small, cespitose, soft and dilated, brownish-green : 

 secondary stems but 1—2 cm. in length : habit of a Limnobiiitn ; 

 no flagella. (From Limnobium, and oidos, like.) 



Type locality, Mt. Hood, Oregon. 



Rocks, Cascades, Easton, Washington ; Mt. Hood, Oregon. 



Svn. : Neckera Menziesii limnobioides Ren. & Card. Bot- 



Cent. 44 : 422. 1890. 



There is no material difference between the so-called variety 

 amblyclada and the species, the leaves on the same plant varying 

 in length and in length of costa. As to flagella, all the specimens 

 seen have more or fewer flagella. 



Paris in Index Bryologicus 853, gives Hooker as the author of 



