CHAPEL HILL LIVERWORTS. 



W. C. COKER. 



North Carolina liverworts were not been neglected by the 

 older generation of Botanists who brought so much credit to 

 our Southern States in the early and middle parts of the last 

 century. That excellent old Botanist, L. de Schweinitz, of 

 Salem, not only did brilliant poineering work in the Fungi, 

 but also found time to publish a valuable work on Hepaticeae 

 of America (1826), many of the specimens described coming 

 from this State. W. S. Sullivant. of Ohio, also described a 

 number of North Carolina Hepaticeae in his publication of 

 1845. Dr. M. A. Curtis, of Hillsboro, N. C, in his catalogue 

 of North Carolina plants* gives sixty-nine species of liver- 

 worts, twenty-three of which have so far been found at Chapel 

 Hill. The remaining nine species in the following list are 

 not given by Curtis. t This work of Curtis' is, so far as I know, 

 the only list of North Carolina Hepaticeae. In 1899 Dr. D. 

 S. Johnson collected a few Hepaticeae from around Beaufort, 

 N. C, among them the interesting tropical form, Cololejeunea 

 Jooriana, which has not been found further north. 



In the steady of our list of Chapel Hill Hepaticeae, I have 

 been greatly aided by Dr. Alexander W. Evans, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, who kindly identified a number of forms, confirmed 

 my identification of others, and given informtion as to dis- 

 tribution. Species identified by Dr. Evans are so designated. 

 The list follows. 



Frullania virginica, Lehm. On trees and rocks. Common, 

 often with rotifers in the saccate under lobes. 



* Geological and Natural History Survey of North Carolina. Part III. 

 Raleigh, N. C. 1867. 



t There is a fault in the printing in my copy of this quite rare pamphlet, 

 by which several species are omitted. It is possible, therefore, that some 

 of the species mentioned as not given by him were really in his list. 



