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ever since. The Florida specimens are without date of collection and the fruit 

 is mostly not quite mature. I believe them to be the same species as that col- 

 lected by C. A. Purpus at Zacuapan, Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1907, and first re- 

 ferred to B. Klotzschii, but later named B. macrocarpum by Cardot, in Revue 

 Bryologique 38: 6. 191 1. The Mexican plant is said to differ from B. Klotzschii 

 (Schwaegr.) Par. of Brazil, by having revolute leaf-borders and a red peristome, 

 but I find that both the Florida and Mexican plants have the borders of the 

 leaves often flat and the peristome rather pale. I have not seen specimens of 

 the Brazilian species. The figures of it as given by Schwaegrichen are very 

 similar to those of the northern specimens, so far as they go, but no inner peris- 

 itomes shown and nothing is mentioned or figured of a revolute leaf-border. 



(Note. — After the preceding remarks were in type Mrs. Britton kindly called 

 my attention to the fact that Leptotheca Wrightii Sulliv. is a Brachymenium, 

 and Dr. Grout has sent a specimen so called, collected at De Leon Springs, 

 Florida, by G. C. Hood. This plant proves to be the same as the Chapman 

 specimen and not B. Wrightii of Cuba, which apparently has not been collected 

 in this country. B. Wrightii may be distinguished from B. macrocarpum by the 

 leaves, which are two or three times larger, not so completely imbricate when 

 dry, and by the much more differentiated leaf-border.) 



The accompanying figures {Plate IV, figs. 1-9) are from the Florida speci- 

 mens. 



Funaria rubiginosa Sp. Nov. 



R. S. Williams 



Male flowers not found. Fertile plants growing in compact cushions with 

 mostly simple stems 3-5 mm. high; the upper stem and perichaetial leaves broadly 

 ovate or slightly obovate, about 2 mm. long, with nearly or quite entire margins 

 and acute, short-subulate point; costa often excurrent into the point in the upper 

 leaves, vanishing well below the apex in the smaller, lower ones; leaf cells lax, 

 the median more or less rhomboidal to hexagonal, about 20/x wide and up to 40^1 

 long, the marginal scarcely different; seta erect, 5 or 6 mm. long; capsule erect 

 about 2 mm. long, somewhat pyriform when dry, finally becoming reddish brown, 

 with a furrowed neck scarcely as long as sporangium, containing about 3 rows of 

 stomata; the cells about the rim of capsule transversely elongate in 4-6 rows, 

 those farther down much elongate vertically, all with more or less thickened 

 walls; peristome scarcely evident or sometimes of pale, slightly papillose, distant 

 teeth of only 2 or 3 articulations each; annulus none; lid conic when moist, its 

 height a little less than the basal diameter, the first 5 or 6 rows of lower cells 

 transversely elongate, those above broadly oblong, in erect rows to the apex; 

 spores rough, 25-28/1 in diameter; calyptra cucullate, long-beaked, more or less 

 lacerate at base. 



Type locality: Missouri River banks just below Great Falls, Montana, 

 (June, 1887, No. 31, R. S. Willi ms.) 



