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. Telaranea 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 CepJialozia comiivens 2iX\di 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 : 



I a. Telaranea nematodes Antillanum (Besch. & Spruce) 



Blepharostoma Antillamwi 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 archegonia 

 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 Jiingennannia nematodes. So far as we know, the 

 identification of Blepharostoma Antillanum with Jungermannia 

 nematodes was first made by Professor Schiffner (Engl. & Prantl, 

 Nat. Pflanzenfam. I^ : 105. 1895). 



lb. Telaranea nematodes longifolia var. no v. 



Leaves more rigid than in type and more widely spaced, 0.4- 

 0.8 (rarely 0.9 mm.) long, leaf-cells 2-4^ times as long as broad. 



Collected by the writer on humus in a swampy wood in 

 company with Sphagmim, Pallavicinia Lyellii, and Ceplialozia 

 catemdata, Freeport,* Long Island, New York, October 17, 1898 



*This Freeport plant was listed by Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe in\his Flora of Long 

 Island (48. 1899) under the name Blepharosfoma nematodes. 



