286 Howe: Notes oN AMERICAN HEPATICAE 
Through the courtesy of Mr. Pearson we have been able to exam- 
ine this South African plant, and like him, can find no reasonable 
grounds for distinguishing it from the American specimens alluded 
to. Zelaranea nematodes, then, may be said to be found in a fairly 
typical condition in South America and South Africa as well as in 
Cuba, and to this range is now to be added Bermuda, where sterile 
plants were collected by the writer in Devonshire Marsh, July 4, 
1900, growing in company with Cephalozia connivens and C. divar- 
icata. In addition to this more or less typical form, illustrated by 
the specimens and descriptions cited, the species presents itself also 
in two forms which we think are sufficiently marked to receive 
varietal names. These are: 
1a. Telaranea nematodes Antillanum (Besch. & Spruce) 
Blepharostoma Antillanum Besch. & Spruce, Bull. Soc. Bot. 
France, 36: clxxxiii. 1889. 
Archegonia terminal on main stem, a lateral branch, or elong- 
ated postical branch, rarely on a short postical branch ; leaves and 
perianth rather rigid. 
Le Gommier, Gaudeloupe, Ed. Marie. In a specimen of the 
Guadeloupe plant kindly communicated by M. Bescherelle we find 
on a single individual all the various modes of bearing archegonl@ 
described above. The leaves, described by the authors as 4-parted, 
we find much more frequently 3- and 2-parted. It seems as im- 
possible to separate this plant specifically from Lepidozia chaeto- 
phylla Spruce as it is to distinguish satisfactorily between the latter 
and Gottsche’s J/ungermannia nematodes. So far as we know, the 
identification of Blepharostoma Antillanum with Jungermanma 
nematodes was first made by Professor Schiffner (Engl. & Prantl, 
Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1°: 105. 1895). 
ib. Telaranea nematodes longifolia var. nov. 
Leaves more rigid than in type and more widely spaced, 0-4~ 
0.8 (rarely 0.9 mm.) long, leaf-cells 2-414 times as long as broad. 
Collected by the writer on humus in a swampy wood ” 
company with Sphagnum, Pallavicinia Lyellii, and Cephalonia 
catenulata, Freeport,* Long Island, New York, October 17; 1898 
*This Freeport plant was listed by Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe in his Flora of Lor® 
Island (48. 1899) under the name Blepharostoma nematodes. 
