282 Howe : Notes on American Hepaticae 



examination of the specimens of Ccplialozia in the accessible her- 

 baria with the result that we are now able to cite seventeen North 

 American specimens of the true CcpJialozia connivcfts, showing a 

 coastwise range from Prince Edward Island to Florida, and an 

 extension inland as far as London, Ontario. 



The specimens cited may be arranged as follows : 

 Prince Edward Island : /. Macoiin, June 27, 1888, no. 139 (a 

 little only, mixed with C. bimilaefolia and Kantia tricJiomanis). On- 

 tario: London,/. Dcarncss (in herb. Underwood, comm. in 1889 

 as no. i). Rhode Island : Providence, from Olney collection 

 in Chapman herbarium ; also, in same herbarium, a second speci- 

 men from Rhode Island, without locality. Connecticut : on the 

 ground in wet woods, Westville, A. W. Evans, November 29, 

 1890. New York: in a tamarack swamp, Syracuse, L. M. 

 Underivood, April, 1888 ; Staten Island, Mrs. E. G. Britton, Febru- 

 ary 14, 1892 ; on the top of a decayed hemlock stump near Bronx 

 River, New York Botanical Garden, M. A. Hozvc, September 21, 

 1898, with Odontoschisma spliagni ; on bank of a stream in a boggy 

 wood, Freeport, Long Island, M. A. Hoive, October 17, 1898; on 

 margin of a swamp, Richmond, Staten Island, M. A. Hozve, Octo- 

 ber 23, 1898 ; Sayville, Long Island, F. E. Lloyd, March 5, 1899. 

 Delaware : on ground in woods, Wilmington, A. Commons, 

 March 12, 1890; in herb. Columbia University. North Caro- 

 lina : Salem, Schzveiuitz, in herb. Torrey (labelled Jungermannia 

 bicornis by Schweinitz). South Carolina : Summerville, C. G. 

 Dubois, April, 1889. Florida: Lisbon, L. M. Underivood, Janu- 

 ary, 1 89 1 (distributed from U. S. National Herbarium as no. 

 1 217); Port Orange, F. C. Stranb, February 23, 1895 (no. 207 

 in herb. Underwood) — also in same locality, March, 1895, mixed 

 with Telaranea and a minute Lcpidozia in Hepaticae Americanae, 

 no. 1 80. Bermuda : Devonshire Marsh, M. A. Hozvc, July 4, 

 1900. 



Lindberg appears to have been the first to have combined the 

 specific name r(^7///777/jr (Dicks.) with the generic name Cephalozia, 

 although at the outset he attributed the binomial to Dumortier. 

 Dumortier however persisted even in his " Hepaticae Europae " in 

 keeping the species under Blcpharostoma and seems never to have 

 written C'pli.d.K.ia conn'v:ns. The synonymy of the species is 



