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Note B. Notice the peculiar curved apical cell or tooth. "At the base of 

 the tooth on the side toward the axis there is present a slight depression or notch 

 in which a unicellular thin-walled and hyaline papilla is situated. The terminal 

 cell curves outward, coming into contact with the postical surface of the lobe 

 and sometimes extending as far as the end of the keel, which in many cases curves 

 forward and meets it." 



The writer examined all of Ruth's specimens of Frullaniae and Lejeuneae in 

 the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden but failed to detect any addi- 

 tional specimens of D. hidens. 



In the Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden 



List of species collected by Albert Ruth, in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1891-2: 



Metzgeria furcata (L.) Dumort. 



Jamesoniella autumnalis (DC.) Steph. 



Lophozia hicrenata (Schmid.) Dumort. 



Cephalozia hicuspidata (L.) Dumort. 



Cephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort. 



Odontoschisma denudatum (Mart.) Dumort. 



Bazzania trilohata (L.) S. F. Gray. 



Radula complanata (L.) Dumort. 



Porella platyphylla (L.) Lindl. 



Microlejeunea bullata (Tayl.) Evans. 



Microlejeunea Rnthii Evans. 



Drepanolejeu nea hidens (Steph.) Evans. 



Leucolejeunea unciloha (Lindenb.) Evans. 



Frullania Asagrayana Mont. 



Frullania Brittoniae Evans. 



It is interesting to notice that this last mentioned species, undescribed at the 

 time, occurs in several pockets, on one of which Professor Underwood figured the 

 underleaf , on another he wrote "large auricles, fruit," and on a third wrote "Good, 

 FruU. near Asagray." 



Highlands, N. J. 



Odor of Conocephalus. — When out in ravines in the vicinity of Pittsburgh 

 on different trips this fall, attention has been called repeatedly to the pungently 

 spicy fragrance of Conocephalus conicus. Lately this has become so strong as 

 to be characterized by most people as rank and unpleasant. On quiet days 

 near little falls in our ravines the plant can sometimes be smelled before it is to 

 be seen. Is this odor due to an oil in large brown oil-bodies in certain cells?^ 

 And is it a reserve food-product stored up with the advent of colder weather? 



O. E. J. 



^ Schiffner, V. Die Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien 1 (III): 18.1909. 



