92 ERYTHEA. 



PItyscomitfiian turbinatum (Michx.) Brid. Cow Creek, Shasta 

 Co., Baker and Nutting; also at Ukiah. 



Funaria Californica Sulliv. & Lesq. Pasadena, March 20, 1888, 

 Dr. E. Palmer (?). From U. S. Nat'l Herbarium. 



Bariramia strida Brid. Oak Run, Shasta Co., M. S. Baker and 

 F. P. Nutting; Oakland Hills, Miss Edith S. Byxbee; Mitchell 

 Canon, Mt. Diablo. 



Stableria gracilis (Wils.) Lindb. (Bryum gracile Wils., Ortho- 

 dontium gracile Schwaegr.). On charred stumps and logs, mainly 

 of Sequoia sempervire^is. First collected in Turner's Canon 

 between Cazadero and Fort Ross, Sonoma Co., March 15, 1896, 

 later at various stations in Mendocino Co., and near Eureka, Hum- 

 boldt Co. Most of these specimens, in our judgment, can not be 

 distinguished even varietally from the European plants. The pro- 

 cesses of the endostonie are often as long as the cilia, but they are 

 so described by Boulay and by Husnot and are sometimes equally 

 long in Wilson's Muse. Brit., No. 220. Stableria gracilis was 

 discovered by Wilson in Cheshire, England, in 1833. Since then, 

 three or four English stations and two in Finistere, France, have 

 been added. It is another interesting link in the chain of relation- 

 ship between the bryophyte flora of California and that of Europe. 



Stableria gracilis (Wils.) Lindb., var. Californica, n. var. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, broader than in the typical 

 form and without subulate points; antheridia surrounded by a few 

 small bracts, on a short gemmiform branch. Near Eureka, No. 

 936, in part. 



The leaves of this variety are often strikingly differei't frou) those 

 of the type, but it grows mingled with the ordinary form and plants 

 bearing leaves of a transitional character are found. The speci- 

 mens which we have identified with the type, so far as observed, 

 are paroicous, but vni*. Californica appears always to be autoicous. 

 Braithwaite describes Stableria gracilis as exhibiting both these 

 methods of bearing the antheridia. 



Myiiuvt glabrescens Kindb. Common on logs and rocks about 

 streams in deeply shaded canons, Mendocino and Humboldt 

 Counties. This seems to take the place of Ahiiicm punctatuin (L.) 

 Hedw. in the Coast Range of California. The latter has, however, 

 been collected in the Sierras, in Mariposa Co., by Miss Byxbee. 



