Howe: Notes on AMERICAN HEPATICAE 287 
(type specimen in herb. N. Y. Botanical Garden), Also, Florida, 
John Donnell Smith, 1877; C. F. Austin, March, 1878; F. C. 
Straub, March, 1895; Brunswick, Georgia, C. F. Austin, April, 
1878. 
The Long Island specimens agree essentially with those from 
Georgia and Florida, though the latter make a slightly closer ap- 
proach to the Cuban plant. The Long Island station is therefore 
a noteworthy northward extension of the known range of a plant 
which has heretofore figured in papers on North American Hepati- 
Cae as coming only from a limited region of the South. The arche- 
gonia in these United States specimens, so far as we have observed, 
always occur on a short postical branch. The leaves are 5-8 cells 
long ; the underleaves are 3- or 2-parted, their prongs of 2 or 3 
cells each, incurved at the apices. Allare autoicous. In the orig- 
inal Jungermannia nematodes, collected in Cuba by Wright, the 
leaves are 0.2 5-0.5 mm. long, 4-6 cells high, the cells being 2—3 
times longer than broad. 
The variety longifolia often gives the impression of being two 
or three times the size of the Cuban plant, but we have been unable 
to find any reliable structural characters to serve for a specific 
Separation. The form of the perianth seems quite variable in all 
Conditions of the species, but is often broader in the var. /ongifolia 
than in the type. 
No. 180 Hep. Am., issued as Blepharostoma nematodes, is ref- 
erable to Telaranca nematodes longifolia ; it is mixed with Cepha- 
lozia connivens and with a minute Lepidozia, probably a reduced 
form of Z, setacea, 
Telaranea bicruris (Steph.) 
Lepidozia bicruris Steph. Hedwigia, 24: 166. pl. 3. 1885. 
Brazit: Sao Francisco, Ule. 
j This plant, though a close relative of 7. nematodes, seems en- 
titled to specific distinction, differing in the almost invariably 2- 
Patted leaves, in the frequent continuation of the stems into leaf- 
less flagella (rare in 7. nematodes) and in the simpler @ bracts. 
Itis described by Stephani as dioicous, though apparently he had 
not Seen 3 plants. We have been unsuccessful in attempts to 
_ ‘And antheridia in the specimen kindly communicated by Herr 
>tephani, and it certainly may be suspected that dioicism is to be 
