474 Evans: THREE SoUTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF ASTERELLA 
distributed in Hep. Spruceanae); Canelos, R. Spruce (N. Y., Y.; 
type of F. canelensis, distributed in Hep. Spruceanae). 
Stephani lists Fimbriaria Mandoni from the following locality: 
Bo.ivia: Sorata, G. Mandon. 
In proposing Fimbriaria macropoda as a new species Spruce 
cited no specimens except those which he himself had collected 
in rivuli ripis montis Pichincha.” In Stephani’s monograph 
the species is still restricted to the ‘‘Andes quitenses,”” but Jame- 
son, Lindig and Wallis are mentioned as collectors, in addition to 
Spruce. Stephani states, in fact, that he had not seen Spruce’s 
original material at all. Unfortunately he gives no further infor- 
mation about the specimens which he cites, but it is possible to 
draw certain inferences from the fact that he does not allude to 
Jameson, Lindig or Wallis elsewhere in connection with the genus. 
There is a probability, for example, that Jameson’s specimens 
are those from Quito, listed"by Mitten under the name F. elegans. 
There is a further probability that Lindig’s specimens are those 
which Gottsche* referred to F. Lindenbergiana on account of their 
violet-colored capsules. They were collected at Boqueron and 
Tocarema, in the province of Bogoté, Colombia; and, although 
these stations are not actually in the ‘Andes quitenses,’’ they are 
assuredly in the same general mountainous district. There is also 
a possibility that Wallis’s specimens may have come from Colom- 
bia, where most of his South American Hepaticae were collected. 
Unfortunately the writer has been unable to consult the specimens 
in question, so that it is impossible to support these inferences by 
direct evidence. 
In Spruce’s original description many of the distinctive 
features of the species are clearly brought out. The delicacy and 
translucency of the thallus, for example, are emphasized and 
attention is called to the purple pigmentation of the margin and 
ventral surface; to the small number of epidermal pores present; 
to the narrow midrib; to the very long peduncle of the female 
receptacle, with scattered paleae and a denser cluster at the apex; 
to the deeply four-lobed disc, covered over with tubercles; to the 
membranous involucre, narrower than the lobes; to the rose- 
purple segments of the pseudoperianth, connate eae . 
* Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. V. r: 187. 1864. | 





