﻿North American Eurhyxchia 241 



On shady banks, moist soil and rocks. New York, New Jer- 



sey, Pennsylvania ; Texas, G. Jeremy. 

 Type locality, Sweden. 



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Exsiccati. Drumm. Muse. Am. (S. States) 130 {Leskea 

 fasciculosa)\ Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor.-Am. (Ed. 1) 293, (Ed. 2) 

 432 ; Aust. Muse. Appal. 333. 



Distinguished from the species by the julaceous branches, 

 appressed-imbricate leaves, more obtuse and more decurrent. 



2C. EURHYNCHIUM STRIGOSUM SCABRISETUM var. nov. 



Seta plainly scabrous with scattered papillae ; otherwise like 

 var. praecox. 



On shaded ground. 



Type in the Columbia Herbarium from the Palisades, N. J., 

 Austin ; Sargentsville, N. J., Best ; Rensselaer Co., N. Y., E. C. 

 Howe; Vineyard Haven, Mass., R. E. Schwab. 



In most sets of both editions of Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor.-Am. 

 a portion of the specimen labeled E. strigosum is smaller and has 

 julaceous branches and in some sets of Ed. I, a scabrous seta. 

 This portion I should refer to var. praecox or var. scabrisctum as 

 the case may be. 



The roughening of the seta is a character not mentioned in any 

 European work or observed in any European specimen, and is 



probably a new development 



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praecox and E. divcrsifolium somewhat so, 

 e those of E. strigosum are usually not at all decurrent. The 



stem leaves of all these forms are more or less decurrent. 



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cox and E. diversifoliuin has been carefully studied to discover a 

 satisfactory arrangement of the forms usually referred to these 

 species. The result has been very unsatisfactory and the matter 



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cannot be definitely settled until the types are compared with 

 American material. The European material in the Herbarium of 

 Columbia University indicates that the forms usually referred to 



£. divers, 'iitin belong rather to E. strigosum praecox and ac- 



