ANTHELIA 143 
(?) Jungermannia nivalis Sw.; Wahlenb. Fl. Сагр.* 363. 1814. 
Wahlenb. Fl. Suec. 779. 1826. 
Anthelia nivalis Lindb. Musc. Scand. 5. 1870. Kaalaas, 
Nyt Mag. for Naturvidensk. 33: 232. 1893. 
Plants dark green or glaucescertt at the apices, brownish below, 
forming wide dense mats 2-4 mm. in thickness: primary stems 
prostrate or decumbent, the principal branches erect, .08-.2 
in diameter, sparingly radicelliferous; leaves erect-appressed, 
usually crowded, more distant on slender sterile stems, ovate, 
-3-.35 mm. long, bifid 17-34 their length, the lobes ovate-lanceo- 
late, subacuminate, the margins entire or very slightly erose-den- 
ticulate; leaf-cells rectangular-oblong to subquadrate, 16-40 и 
in greatest diameter, rather thin-walled : paroicous: bracts sev- 
eral pairs, a little saccate at base, apices denticulate, bracteoles 
similar : perianth scarcely exserted, ovoid, I-1.6 mm. x .6-.7 mm., 
lobulate at the somewhat contracted mouth: capsule .5-.7 mm. in 
diameter, оп a seta 1—3 mm. long; spores 16-24 и in maximum 
diameter, granulate-papillate ; elaters 120-175 м long, 11-14 # in 
Sreatest diameter, somewhat attenuate at the extremities, mostly 
trispiral, 
On rocks in alpine regions. “California, Bolander" in herb. 
U. S. National Museum (under the name Anthelia julacea). И 
seems probable that Dr. Bolander's specimen was collected on Mt. 
Dana in September, 1866. 
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* This citation is as given by authors. We have been unable to consult this earlier 
work of Wahlenberg’s and have also failed to see the “ W. M. Ind. musc.” in whic 
of the opinion that Jungermannia nivalis Sw. should be treated as an exact synonym of 
Jungermannia julacea Lightf., inasmuch as we are in possession of no evidence (as has 
already been said, in effect, by Dr. Spruce) that Lightfoot, Swartz, or Wahlenberg dis- 
tinguished between what we now recognize as Anthelia julacea and Anthelia Jurats- 
kana, Jungermannia nivalis could then be cited as a synonym for Jungermannia 
julacea, in the restricted sense of Limpricht, with as much justice as for Jung ra 
майдала, At all events, in Wahlenberg's Flora Suecica, Jungermannia nivalis is 
Малта concinnata of Lightfoot and of Hooker, and the diagnosis of Junger тапта 
5 as there given, would, on the whole, (‘surculis setacets ramosis ;” А жб 
* flexuosi”) be more suggestive of the dioicous species. Lindberg, It 15 true- 
: et. Akad. Handl. 235: 29. 1889) that his Яийейа nivalis (the 
K icous Species) is very common in Scandinavia while А. ju/acea аси ве 
Species abo: AE "M 587735 = за и h 225 did реті 
ас out equally abundant in Norway. Until proof is fort Аз - И pru 
bw. als Was originally applied to Ше paroicous species ыы preter, 
а Specific name concerning whose original meaning there 1s no doubt. 
