203 



Santa Catalina (3262). One of many fine things brought from 

 this interesting locality in the western Sierra, by VanHermann. 



Wright's 720. 14-18, rigidiim var. verdeanum, is Sauvalle's 710. 

 22^^. Wright's 226g and 22^0 are Sauvalle's 710. 22j8. But 

 on two other specimens of his own, doubtless of the collecting 

 of Blain in western Cuba, Sauvalle has also placed the number 

 22j8, though these specimens are much more like Wright 1^18 

 — Sauvalle 2247. But neither of these two specimens are at all 

 like our no. J262. 

 Heckeria umbellata (L.) Kth. 



Abundant along fence rows, borders of thickets, and outcrop- 

 ping ledges, all through western Cuba. Specimens issued are 

 from Managua {1362) ; hills near Candelaria {161 4., 16 15) ; near 

 Artemisa {1751') ; Guanajay Mountain {2187) ; Rangel {3833) \ 

 ■ Vento {382); near Calabazar {4P03); Santiago de las Vegas 

 {io8p, 3323). I have not yet seen pdtata growing in western 

 Cuba. Dr. Maza has in the Jardin Botanico de la Universidad 

 de Habana, a foreign Heckeria which, however, is not peltata. 



Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 



SHORTER NOTES 



(/ A Redwood described as a Moss. — In the account of the 

 fossil mosses of Florissant, published by Mrs. Britton and Dr. 

 Hollick in the Biilleti7i of the Totrey Bota7ncal Club for March, 

 is a new figure of Hyp)m7ii Hayde7iii Lesq., accompanied by the 

 remark that it appears to be a conifer. From a study of a large 

 amount of material from Florissant, I had already concluded that 

 the conifers found there belonged to four species,* namely Sequoia 

 affiiiis Lesq., a Sabiua, and two species o{ Pi7ius. The alleged 

 moss has no particular resemblance to the Sabiua or Pi7ius, but it 

 exactly agrees with the growi7tg tips of the Sequoia. I have before 

 me a branch, with ordinary leaves, of Sequoia affi7iis, and on the 

 same piece excellent " Hypnitm Haydejiii.'" There appears to 

 be no doubt whatever about the identity of the two, and the moss 

 name has priority of place. Hence the Florissant redwood 

 * The particulars will be published in Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



