Brittox : Bryological Notes 649 



Grimmia anomala Hpe. — In a recent number of the Revue 

 Bryologique, Mr. Ernest S. Salmon has described and figured the 

 difference between Grimmia anomala and G. Hartmanni, two 

 very rare European mosses, of which G. anomala, was not known 

 to fruit, and G. Hartma)ini had only been found once fruiting in 

 Corsica. Both bear propagating gemmules on the leaves, the 

 points of which are abnormally differentiated for their production. 

 The sterile plants may be distinguished by cross-sections of the 

 stem, that of G. Hartmanni having a central strand, G. anomala 

 being without 



In 1 891, I described Grimmia Philibertiana } from specimens col- 

 lected by JL B. Leiberg, in Idaho, and figured it on Plate 114 of 

 the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. From recent exchanges 

 of specimens, I have discovered that G* Philibertiana is the same 

 as the European G. anomala, and Mr. Salmon agrees with me. 

 This is the second species of Grimmia which Mr. Leiberg has found 

 fruiting, of which the fruit was unknown in Europe. 



G. anomala has been found fruiting at Seljestad in Norway, 

 July, 1900, by H. N. Nixon and Nicholson and G. torquata was 

 collected in fruit in 1892 at Gausdal, Norway, by E. Ryan. 



Typhula mnscicola (Pers.) Fries. This species of fungus is 

 usually found growing in wet shady places on mosses and other 

 plants near them. It has been collected on the following species : 

 Climacium Amcricannm Brid., Farmingham, N. Y., Edgar Brown ; 

 var. fluitans Aust. Garrisons, N. Y., A. J. Grout ; C. dcndroidcs 

 (L.) Web. & Mohr, Vermilion Lake, E. W. D. Holway ; Entodon 

 sed2ictrix (Hedw.) CM. H. W. Ravenel, S. C. (Fungi Car. Exsicc. 

 no. 36) ; Leskea obscura Hedw., Emma, Mo., C. H. Demetrio (E. 

 & E. N. Am. Fungi no. 2320) ; Plagiothecium striatcllnm Lindb. 

 Ringwood, N. J., N. L. Britton ; Pylaisca velutina Sch., Wilming- 

 ton, Del., A. Commons ; Thuidium minutulum (Hedw.) Br. & 

 Sch., S. C. Ravenel, no. 36 ; T. recognitum (Hedw.) Lindb. E. A. 

 Rau. The small capitate sclerotium has been collected by Edgar 

 Brown ; when sterile the fungus looks like a slender white Cla- 

 varia from 2-9 mm. high. 



