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stems the h.iir-points are as long as the leaves. Leaves ercct-ap- 

 pressed, the blades distinctly spoon-shaped all along the stem. In 

 section the leaves are uniformly and evenly concave, the costa 

 projecting evenly above and below the lamina except at apex 

 where it projects on the under side alone; costa with a single row of 

 large cells across the upper surface, continuous with the leaf cells. 



C. Rani is less silvery, there being fewer long hairs and is 

 usually in looser, more extended patches; coarser and more branch- 

 ing; the hair-points discontinue below the upper third of the stem 

 in young plants; stem leaves obliquely ascending, spreading with 

 a distinct keel on the under side. In section the costa is deeply 

 Jurro'ii'cd above. 



It is stated that C. Renauldi Cardot is not sufificiently dis- 

 tinct from C. Rani on the authority of Cardot himself. 



Mr. Holzinger also publishes C. Wrightii, var. brevis, Hol- 

 zinger. " Moncecious; simple or branching, one of the branches 

 usually terminating in the antheridial, the other in the arche- 

 gonial bud; leaves crowded toward the top of the stem into a termi- 

 nal bud, rapidly reduced to scales so that the stem below the middle 

 is nearly naked; leaves not distinctly spoon-shaped." Winona, 

 Minn., Holzinger. 



In the issue of the same publication for June 15, 1898, M. 

 Jules Cardot publishes Fontinalis Ilolzingeri. "Of the group 

 Heterophyllae related to F. Missourica Card., but with leaves more 

 rigid, cells longer, not or scarcely flexuose, strongly chlorophyllose, 

 marginal firm." Northeastern Minn., Holzinger. 



In the same paper Mr. Holzinger shows conclusively that 

 Homalia Jamesii, Schimp, is at most only a variety of H. tricho- 

 manoides (Schreb.) Br. & Sch., the only difference being in the 

 more obtuse leaves of the American form, which character even 

 is quite variable. 



H. Macounii Kindb., is also given as a synonym of the variety 

 Jamesii. 



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