BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 195 
Carya myristice formis, Nutt., occurs in the Red River Valley as far as 
the Arkansas boundary, and probably considerably farther up the river. North 
It is known among the people of that region as Blasted Pecan, The nuts in dry- 
ing split open at one end (usually), and are easily opened by means of the blade 
Manual of the Mossesof N. Am.'—In the Sept. number of the BorantcaL 
Gazerrr, Mr, Eug. A. Rau has published for species of mosses an enumeration 
of localities which have not been mentioned in the Manual of the Mosses of 
North America. A detailed enumeration of the localities cited by collectors 
thelistegum, C. M., Florida. Aust. Musci. App. Suppl. N. 505, 1. homalostegium 
C. M., Alabama, Mohr. H. occidentale, 8. & L,, Oregon, Hall., Trichostomum ma- 
: eranella Canadensis, Mitt. British America, Macoun., Dieranum areticum, Sc’ 
Greenland, Labrador, Yetraplodon mnioides vars. Adamsianus and carifolius, Arctic 
Regions. Of the above species Hypnum homalostegium and Trichost nae? 
fegium have not been found within the limits of North America. 
. - Mohr’s information the specimens communicated formerly as 
ave ged Mexican specimens collected ! an a 
2 with those found around Mobile. Dicranum Richardsont, iHook, is a 
‘Sead m of Cynodontium virens,Schp. Dieranella Cunadensis, meaning Cynodontium 
wie sre Mitt. is Dichodontium Canadense, of the Manual. Tetraploden mnioides 
s - carifolius is of no account as a variety. It isincluded in the cited synonym 
mum urceolatum. Di arcticum, considered by Bruch and Wilson as 
: “hee D. Starkii, might have been mentioned though not deseribed in the 
Le dlaliags eal of the Synopsis of Schimper, and Hypnum thelistegum, C. M. (not 
a a si 2 Austro-American type, and no specimen of it cou 
Bostik, . ition is still to be ascertained. I owe to ‘Mr. Je Donnell 
“1, to whom the discovery of the moss is credited, a set of his specimens 
ts 
there 
A fore, really forgotten in the manual, and that by an unaccountable over- 
sight, j : 
shec : oes occidewtale, Sull, & Lesq, and this, under about nine hundred 
the ge ‘escribed, do not indicate carelessness in the preparation of the 
2 "fitch being one originally determined by myself.— Leo LesquEREUX, Co- 
mous, O., Oct, 7th, 1884 ne 
i eal Ltaed de . Eager to Tipe eee ae 
Th ae : in ana : 
= hae wded out of the last No., for which it was prepared. 
of the Red river it extends into the foot hills of the Paleozoic region, and is — 
e a pocket knife placed in the cleft. The kernel, though small, is of excellent ie 
avor, i 
According to 
found in Ala- — 
by himself in Mexico, and casually — 
found j ; : 
1 . in Florida ; but the species is not represented in the lot. The only species, — 
f the work, ‘ 
