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lished a list of six Alaska Hepaticae. The specimens were ap- 

 parently collected by himself, and the determinations were made 

 byT. P. James. None of these species are given as Alaskan in 

 the ' Synopsis,' but all are common northern forms with the ex- 

 ception of 'Fimbriaria tenellaj to which one specimen is doubt- 

 fully referred. This determination is probably incorrect ; but, as 

 I am informed by Mr. W. R. Maxon, the specimen in question 

 is no longer to be found among the collections of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution at Washington, so that the matter cannot be 

 definitely settled. The next list to appear is that of Herr 

 Stephani, 1 published in 1887. It is the longest yet given and 

 includes twenty-two species collected by Drs. Arthur and Aurel 

 Krause in 1881-82. Of the plants mentioned in this list, only 

 five had been previously recorded from Alaska, four are de- 

 scribed as new, and several of the others are absent from all 

 later collections. 



Since the publication of Herr Stephani's enumeration, three 

 very fragmentary lists by American authors have made their 

 appearance. In the first 2 of these we find noted thirteen spe- 

 cies, collected by Miss Grace E. Cooley, in southeastern Alaska 

 and determined by Professor L. M. Underwood. Six of these 

 species are here recorded for the first time. The second list 3 

 names three species from St. Paul Island, of the Pribilof group, 

 collected by Dr. C. Hart Merriam and likewise determined 

 by Professor Underwood. All of these species had been pre- 

 viously reported from Alaska. In the third list 4 are eight spe- 

 cies collected by General Frederick Funston in the Yakutat Bay 

 region and determined by the present writer. All except two of 

 these were already known from the Territory. In addition to 

 these three lists, which are parts of longer reports dealing pri- 



1 Hepaticae von der Halbinsel Alaska. Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 8: 96-99. //. 

 3. figs, 9-77. 1887. 



2 Cooley, G. E., Plants collected in Alaska and Nanaimo, B. C., July and 

 August, 1891. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 19: 246, 247. 1892. 



3 Merriam, C. Hart, Plants of the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea. Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash. 7 : 150. 1892. The same 3 Hepaticae are included by J. M. Macoun 

 in his List of the Plants of the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea; published in 

 Jordan's Report on the Fur-Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacific, 3 : 

 587. 1899. 



<Coville, F. V., Botany of Yakutat Bay: Botanical Report. Cor.tr. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. 3 : 351. 1895. 



