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distantly placed, often long-attenuated; leaves unequal, loosely 
imbricating, ovate-oblong, very obtuse, subapiculate, minutely 
toothed toward the-apex, the lower margin slightly excavated, 
incurved ; areolation subrhomboidail, longer i in the middle of the 
base of the leaf; costa obsolete or none. Fruit wanting. 
Rocks. Helderberg Mountains. V. Colvin. Sandlake. The 
stems often appear interruptedly leafy, the leaves being in cer- 
tain places greatly reduced in size. They are also minute on the 
attenuated part of the branches. The larger ones are subdistich- 
ously arranged, and the areolation is rather large. ‘This plant was 
first discovered by Mr. T. P. James, who has given the very appro- 
priate specific name under which it is here described. 
Hypneum scorpromwes, ZL. 
Marshes. Litchfield, Herkimer county. I believe the discovery 
of this species in our State belongs to Rev. J. A. Paine, Jr., by 
whom the locality was made known to me. 
Puacioruectum TurFAcEuM, Lindbg. 
Ground and old logs in woods. Fort Edward, E. C. Howe. 
Warwick Mountains, C. F. Austin. Helderberg Mountains. 
A species closely resembling P. muhlenbeckii, and possibly run- 
ning into it, though I have noticed no intermediate forms. It is 
distinguished by ‘the more narrow elongated areolation of the 
leaves, and the less enlarged cells at their ‘basal angles. 
PLAGIOTHECIUM PILIFERUM Var. BREVIPILUM, Bryol Europ. 
Under overhanging rocks and on thin soil in crevices. Catskill 
and Adirondack Mountains. Ver y rare. Sterile. It may prove 
to be a good species. 
HEPATIC. 
Ricca suttivantu, Austin in lit. Sp. nov. 
Frond with air cavities, green both sides, orbicular, 5”—8” ir 
diameter, repeatedly dichotomously divided, the lacinize oblens 
linear, plane when moist, channeled above when dr Vy, apices obtuse, 
bilobed ; upper surface becoming many-pitted with age, especially 
toward the base; lower surface bearing copious, long filamentous 
rootlets ; capsule ’single at or near the furcations, burstirg from the 
oes surface of the frond; spores dark brown, reticulated, about 
sty Of an inch in diameter. 
Low grounds in cultivated fields. New Lots, Long Island, Sep- 
tember. 
JUNGERMANNIA sETIFoRMS, Lhrh. 
Rocks. Top of Mt. McIntyre. 
JUNGERMANIA pivARicata, Lng. Bot. 
On mosses. Catskill and Adirondack Mountains. 
