380 The Botanical Gazette. [November, 
Usnea sp. (a tufted hair-like lichen), whisker-moss. Mansfield, O. 
ALG. 
Laminaria (saccharina?). Venus’s apron-strings. Brookline, Mass. 
Laminaria longicruris, Devil's apron-strings; Deb's apron-strings. 
Portland, Me. 
Devil’s apron. N. E. coast. 
Spirogyra and allied confervaceae, frog-spit. U. S. 
frog-spawn. Parts of N. B 
BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
The systematic position of Entosthodon Bolanderi—In February, 
1889, Dr. Edward Palmer, collecting in Lower California for the De- 
partment of Agriculture, found this species in thevicinity of Port San 
Quentin, about a hundred miles south of San Diego. This greatly 
extends southward the range of this species. It looks much like 
Funaria Californica Sulliv. & Lesq., in outward appearance, but differs 
from it in the more acuminate leaves, in the capsule more long-necked 
and constricted under the orifice when dry and in the mamillate lid. 
Closer examination of the plants, which are in excellent condition, 
shows furthermore only a rudimentary peristome; the costa ceases 
above the middle of the leaf; the cells near the apex of the leaf are 
more elongated. 
A search in the material of the closely allied genus Entosthodon 
led to the discovery of this identical species under the name of Entos- 
thodon Bolanderi Lesq. The one specimen in the National Herba- 
rium comes from the herbarium of Lesquereux himself, and is labelled: 
“Entosthodon Bolanderi “esq. Ad terram argillosam, prope oan 
Francisco, Californie. No. 236. Leg. Bolander.” ee 
A comparison of Palmer’s plants with this specimen, and with the 
figures in Sulliv. Icon. Suppl. t. 17, shows them to agree in all respects, 
except that the figure and description make no reference to the #/¢” 
rudimentary peristome, distinctly present in the specimens of Lesque- 
reux collected by Bolander, as well as in Palmer's specimens. — oa 
peristome is as pronounced as in Funaria microstoma. In specimens 
of Funaria Californica in the National Herbarium, it is not nearly S° 
well developed as figured in Sulliv. Icon. Suppl. t. 18, but 18 almost 2 
