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gregate, subglobose, leviuscule. Antheridia frondi immersa, 
elliptico-globosa. rons orbicularis, laciniata, tenera, papuloso- 
reticulata, margine undulato-crispa, subtus radiculosa, massis gra- 
nulatis hic illic immersis. 
Plante: annue, terrestres, limicole, in umbrosis Ohionis Caro- 
lineeque Septentrionalis observate. 
289. NorornyLas VALVATA (2. Sp-): 
Fronde diametro 3-8-lineari; involucro horizontali deflexo cor- 
niformi; capsula elongato-cylindrica curvula sutura colorata sem- 
per instructa; sporis luteolis subfuscisve. 
Haz. in humidiusculis circa Columbus Ohionis sat frequens.— 
Maturescit Austate—Autumno. 
290. NororHyLaS MELANOSPORA (7. Sp. ). 
Capsula sutura omnino nulla ; columella appendiculata ; sporis 
atro-fuscis dimidio majoribus quam in precedente : ceteris con- 
veniunt. 
Has. iisdem in locis cum priore, rarissima. 
Spec. adject. NoroTHYLAs ORBICULARIS, Sulliv. l. ¢. 
Involucro suberecto; capsula oblongo-ellipsoidea compressa 
cum vel absque sutura concolori : cetera ut in N. valvata. j 
pobolus orbicularis, Schweinitz, 1. ¢. (Diagnosis secundum spe- 
cimina Schweinitziana in herb. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 
The collection also embraces many re-discoveries of no little 
interest, as well as brief critical remarks and rectifications of sy- 
nonomy which will be valued by the muscologist. We note 
some of the points that strike us as we turn over the pages. 
No. 2 is Hypnum wmbratum of Enrnarr, collected on the 
Oaxes from the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It is 
here for the first time recorded as an American species. No. 48, 
H. demissum of Wu:soy, also from. the rich sides of the rugged 
Grandfather, is equally new to America, and im fact is quite a re- 
cent discovery in Europe. No. 5, H. gracile, was intended as 
one of the new species of this work, but its publication has been 
anticipated by Brucn and Scuumrer. No. 6, H. scitum, is doubt- 
fully referred to that species of Beavvois, If the reference prove 
