﻿Vol 25 



No.l 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



JANUARY 1898 



The Anthocerotaceae of North America. 



By Marshall A. Howe. 



(Plates 321-326) 



Important contributions to our knowledge of the North Amer- 

 ican Anthocerotaceae have been made by Schweinitz,* Sullivant,t 

 Mottier, % and Campbell,§ but the principal paper on the subject 

 from the systematic point of view, is that published by Mr. Coe F. 



Austin in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, for April, 



1875 (6 : 25-29), under the title, " Notes on the Anthocerotaceae 

 of North America, with Descriptions of Several New Species/' 

 Nine new species were proposed in Mr. Austin's paper, some of 

 them, however, provisionally — " introduced, along with others, for 

 the purpose of calling the attention of collectors more directly to 

 this most obscure family of the Hepaticae." Elsewhere three ad- 



* Schweinitz, L. D. Specimen Florae Americae Septentrionalis Cryptogamicae ; 



sistens Muscos Hepaticos hue usque in Am. Sept. observatos. 8vo, pp. 27. Raleigh, 

 1821. 



On two remarkable Hepatic Mosses found in North Carolina. Jour. Philad. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. 2: 361-370, 1 pi., 1822. 



fSullivant, W. S. Musci Alleghanienses [Exsicc] 1845. Id. [Reprint of 

 tickets.] 8vo, pp. 87. Columbus: 1846. 



Contributions to the Bryology and Hepaticology of North America. Part I 

 Mem. Amer. Acad., new ser. 3 : 57-66. pi. i-j. 1846. 



} Mottier, D. M. Contributions to the Life-History of Notothylas. Annals of 

 Botany. 8:391-402. pi, 20 and 21. 1894. 



£ Campbell, D. II. The Structure and Development of the Mosses and Ferns. 

 Svo, pp. 544. London and New York : 1895. 



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