Hower: Nores on AMERICAN HEPATICAE 285 
Cephalozia nematodes Aust. Bull. Torrey Club, 6: 302. 1879. 
Lepidozia chaetophylla Spruce, Trans. and Proc. Bot. Soc. 
[Edinb.] 15: 365. 188s. 
Lepidozia nematodes Spruce, /. c. 366. 
Lelaranea chaetophylla Spruce, “ Mst. nov, gen.” /. c. [as syno- 
nym]. Schiff. ; Engl. & Prantl, Nat, Pflanzenfam. 1°: 103. 1895. 
Lepidozia chaetophylla tenuis Pearson, Christ. Vid.-Selsk. For- 
hand]. 1886°: 9. 1886. Evans, Bull. Torrey Club, 20: 308. 
1893. 
_ Blepharostoma nematodes Underw. Bull. Torrey Club, 23: 383 
(footnote). 1896. 
Spruce in comparing his Lepidozia chaetophylla with Lepidozia 
nematodes (Gottsche) emphasizes the flaccidity of the latter as a 
distinguishing character and this indeed appears to be about the 
only difference of importance to be detected between Wright’s 
Cuban plant and those from South America distributed by Spruce 
as Telaranca chaetophylla (Hepaticae Spruceanae : Amazonicae et 
Andinae). Wright’s specimens revive quite imperfectly on being 
Soaked out with water, but there is such a range of variability in 
this respect in different parts of a single tuft and even of different 
Parts of a single plant, both in the Cuban and South American 
Specimens that we are not inclined to give much weight to this 
character. We therefore agree with our friend Mr. Pearson (/. c.) 
in believing that the two forms represent a single species. We 
Would, however, differ from Pearson in retaining for this species 
the oldest published name xematodes. The specific name nemoides 
given earlier by Taylor to another plant now recognized as a Lepi- 
dozia seems sufficiently different both to the eye and ear to prevent 
confusion. * 
In both the Cuban and South American plants the archegonia 
are usually borne on a short postical branch, rarely at the end of 
ie main axis or of an elongated branch. In 1886, Pearson (f-¢.) 
identified a specimen from Natal, South Africa, with Gottsche’s 
Cuban Species, which he renamed Lepidozia chaetophylla tenuts. 
: *The remark is attributed to Spruce (Pearson, /. ¢.) that nemoides and nematodes 
* St only in case-ending. It seems to us that the two words are equally nominative 
- form but that Taylor’s name nemoides is an etymological monstrosity on account of 
failure to use the true stem of the Greek noun in constructing the adjective. 
