wonder if they are ever found otherwise. One of these stations was dis- 

 covered by Dr. R. H. True, Mr. A. A. Eaton and myself, and Dr. True dis- 

 covered the fact that each lid pointed to the south, which was certainly true 

 of that colony. Whether it be the case generally, I am not prepared to say. 

 Up to this fall I have never found a calyptra. I think they are all, gone long 

 before the capsule is mature. It is very symmetrical, being perfectly cylin- 

 drical and just covering the lid. I was fortunate enough to collect a few- 

 plants just as the sporophyte first appeared, and found them interesting 

 indeed. This date was October ii, 1900.—/. IVarrc?! Huntington, Ames- 

 hitry, Mass. 



I have collected Bu.xbaumia but once, at Jam.aica, L. I., on soil — just 

 ordinary woodsy soil, October 15, 1899. It was in the lance stage, the cap- 

 sules being entirely undifferentiated from the seta, so far as appearance 

 went, except for the calyptra. — ^■^. J. G. 



It may be interesting to know the stations where I have found Bu.x 

 baujiiia aphylla. It does not seem so rare to me, because I have several 

 times come upon it, though in very small quantities in each instance. I 

 have found it in the town of Austerlitz, and again in the town of Ghent in this 

 [Columbia] county. At the first place it grew on a shaded bank by the road- 

 side, in the latter beside a path leading to a waterfall, and in deep shade. 

 This summer I found it by the roadside on the way to Hanging Rock Falls, 

 near Ellenville. — Harriet Wheeler. 



FUNARIA FLAVICANS Michx. 



Last June the writer collected specimens of a Funaria growing on grav- 



Fig. 1. Capsule not quite mature. 2. Mature capsule with obnormally short 

 column, s and 4. Kipe capsules without lid. 5 and 6. Middle and upper leaf. 

 Figures magnified about 11 diameters. 



elley soil in a damp hollow at Bedford Park, New York City, that proved to 



