NOTES ON CALIFORNIAN BKYOPHYTES* 99 



tria, usual absence of the mouiliform line, etc. There is a 

 possibility that the plant deserves specific rank. 



F. Asagrayana, var. alsophila, var. nov. Plants green, 



much elongated, rather laxly creeping; texture of leaves 

 uniform or nearly so; amphigastria suborbicular to oblong, 

 margin plane or rarely slightly recurved; lower lobe of 



- involucral leaves narrow, channeled, somewhat contorted, 



with one or two cilia on margin near base; inner involucre 



oblong. 



On logs in shady moist places. Mill Valley and Olema, 



Marin Co. Strikingly different in general appearance from 



variety Californica^ yet connected with the latter by forms 



growing upon the bark of living trees. It is near F. Nis- 



f quallensis, SuUiv., as represented in No. 148 of Underwood 



and Cook's Hepaticse Americanae, yet its relationship to Asa- 

 grayana var. Californica cannot be overlooked when studied 

 in the field- It is perhaps worthy of note that both vars. 

 Californica and alsopMla have the auricle nearer the stem 

 than F. Asagrayana as exhibited in No. 2 of Macoun's Cana- 

 dian Hepatica3 and in rock and tree forms from Virginia ( Yail 

 and Britton). The width of the frond in both varieties ranges 

 from .3 to 1 mm. 



Frullania Franciscanaj sp. nov. Dioicous; from green 



becoming light reddish-brown, forming somewhat dense 

 mats; primary branches pinnate or bipinnate, springing 

 irregularly from the main stem; leaves imbricate, obliquely 

 ovate from a subcordate base, decurved, obtuse or more com- 

 monly acuminate-apiculate, entire, marked with a median 

 moniliform line; auricles oblong- galeate, distant from the 

 stem, stylus evident; amphigastria subquadrate to obovate, 

 mostly rhombic-obovate, generally from 2 — 2| times the 

 width of the stem, emarginate or bifid, sinus acute or obtuse, 

 segments often unidentate, margins plane; involucral leaves 

 unequally lobed, ciliate-laciniate near base on ventral margin 

 and sometimes on the dorsal, lobes entire, the dorsal acumi- 

 nate-apiculate, the ventral ovate or lanceolate, acute, slightly 

 concave; involucral amphigastria more or less connate with 



