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as that before them from Virgin Bay, (Trelease, 1833), into the lonely bosom 

 of Kindberg's genus. 



The characterization of " Bartramiopsis sitkana Kindb. nov. subsp.," on 

 p. 35, 1. c, in 3 lines, is so brief that, in determining a plant by its luminous 

 rays would require superhuman intelligence to enable either denial or veri- 

 fication. Yet that name, by three lines, is saved the embarrassment of a nomen 

 nudum, and is received, with honors, as a synonym. 



One more remark. It is in regard to the generic value of Bartramiopsis. 

 Cardot and Theriot, at the end of their paper on the Harriman Alaska Mosses, 

 1. c, in Note 2, p. 347, refer to Mr. E. S. Salmon's view published in the Journal 

 of Botany, 1. c, that Atrichum Lescurii James belongs to the genus Lyellia be- 

 cause both have histratose leaves. This seems rather a matter of taste and con- 

 venience. The authors in answer point out the difference in the capsule: in 

 B. Lescurii this is erect, smooth, macrostome or flaring; in L. crispa it is nodding, 

 angled and wrinkled like that of a Polytrichum, and microstoma The peristome 

 is absent in both genera. It may be added that B. Lescurii, with the structure 

 of its costa, and its few lamellae (5 to 8) looks toward Catharinaea; L. crispa, 

 with the structure of its costa, and its numerous lamellae (24 to 33) looks toward 

 Polytrichum. Above all, it is more convenient to retain Kindberg's genus. 



The facts above cited require us to write the name of this plant as follows: 



Bartramiopsis Lescurii (James) Card, et Ther., in Proc. Wash. Acad, 

 of Sci., July 31, 1902, pp. 325-6, pi. XXI, figs. 2 a-i, not Kindb.; Atrichum Les- 

 curii James in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, VI (1879), p. 33, and Lesq. et James Man- 

 ual (1884), p. 257; Bartramiopsis sitkana Kindb. nov. subsp. in Rev. bryol. 

 i894»P-35. 



Egg Harbor, S. E. Alaska on soil of uprooted tree (Frye, 944). 

 Collections: John M. Holzinger, Musci Acrocarpi Boreali-Americarii, 374. 



WILLIAM HOBSON 



Wm. Hy. Pearson 



In the Manchester Museum there is a specimen labelled " Jungermannia 

 splachnoides, California, ex. herb. Wm. & Ed. Hobson." This is Physiotium 

 giganteum (Weber), Jungermannia sphagnoides Rich., and, so far as I know, 

 this species has not been recorded from California. Probably some mistake 

 has been made as to its origin, but the specimen affords me an excuse for making 

 from my American friends some enquiry about this said William Hobson. 



We in Lancashire are very proud of our workingmen botanists, who for 

 more than a hundred years have held their botanical meetings, pursuing their 

 studies under extreme difficulties, and who have added no little store to our 

 knowledge. We treasure the memory of such men as John Mellor, a working 

 gardener, who discovered Hymenophyllum Wilsoni; John Nowell, a cotton opera- 

 tive, after whom the genus Nowellia was founded by Mitten and after whom 



