Notes on our Hepatice. IV. 
The genus Fossombronia. 
LUCIEN M. UNDERWOOD. 
_ Among the genera of the Jungermaniales the present genus 
's perhaps the only one in which the spore markings have 
been used as specific characters. The older hepaticologists 
European species and as this was done before the right recog- 
nition of species obtained there, we have a complicated tangle 
of misapplied names to unravel. 
n order of sequence the following species have been re- 
ferred to our flora by various authors 
evidently a species of Fossombronia as first pointed 
out by Sullivant in 1845. While it probably represented F. 
frveclata, our most common species, there is no means at 
© has figured is teally F. foveolata. 
1869. Austin published* F. cristuda from New Jersey and 
Spec. F] 
1 
: Fl. Am. Sept. 25. 1821. 
tMosetlleg no. 277. 1845 
(ed, 2) = and Hepatice of the Eastern U. S. in Gray, Man. 691. 1856. 
4 . 
Proc. Phila Acad 1869; 228. 1869 
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