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This species is quite near the preceding variety but still smaller and 

 more slender. The leaves are broader, shorter pointed, more entire, and 

 costa more frequently vanishing just below point (584). 



In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for April, 1900, pp. 202-211, 

 Mr. Stephen Conrad Stuntz publishes a Revision of the North American 

 Genus Eleutera Beau v., which is the name he gives to our old friend 

 Neckera. He adds no new species to our list (for which we thank him) and 

 reduces N. oligocarpa to a variety of pennaia. With this reduction almost 

 any one will agree who has ever had the opportunity to carefully compare the 

 two. Mr. Stuntz changes the specific name of two species, complanata, 1763, 

 to ornithopodioides (Scop.), 1760, and undulata to Jamaicensis (Emel. ), 1791. 

 As Hedwig's undulata dates from 1792 and has been in general use for 108 

 years we hope that these 108 years of use will ultimately outweight the single 

 year of priority. 



Two varieties described since the publication of the L. & C. Manual are 

 included, Neckera Menziesii li?mtobioides R. & C. and N. pennata pterantha 

 (C. M. & Kindb.). Descriptions of both these varieties are printed in Barnes 

 and Heald's Keys. N. Menziesii amblyclada Kindb. and N. Douglasii 

 Macounii Kindb. are both reduced to their species. 



"No North American specimens of E. Foniinaloides {N.pumila') have 

 been seen and it is likely that Bruch and Schimper were wrong in crediting 

 it to North America. N: Ludovicice and N. cymbifolia are referable to Pilo- 

 trichuin, as is probably N. Floridana also, although all the specimens ex- 

 amined bearing this name in herbaria are really E. distichay 



The work of revision appears to have been well and carefully done and 

 will be welcomed by every working Bryologist for its descriptions and notes 

 on distribution, which are much superior to any previously accessible. 



A. J. G. 



1. Atrichum Lescurii James. 



Mr. E. S. Salmon, in No. 15 of Bryological Notes (Journal of Botany, 

 October, 1901), shows that this species referred by Mitten to Oligotrichum, 

 made by Kindberg the type of his new genus Bartramiopsis (Rev. Bry. 

 1894) and referred by Hagen and Jensen to their new genus Philocrya (Med- 

 del. am Groenland, XV., 1898), belongs certainly to R. Brown's older genus 

 Lyellia, coming close to Lye Ilia crispa R .Br. Its right name becomes there- 

 fore Lyellia Lescurii (James) E, S. Salmon, both Bartramiopsis and Philo- 

 crya being merged in Lyellia. 



2. Hypnum lentum Mitt. 



In No. 24 of his Bryological Notes (Journal of Botany, January, 1902), 

 having seen Mr. Mitten's material, Mr. Salmon shows that this is identical 

 with Scleropodiuin caespitosuin ( Wils. ) and so must become a synonym of 

 it, a condition which Dr. Grout surmised in his Revision of North American 

 species of Scleropodium (1899). Mr. H. N. Dixon adds his weight of con- 

 servative judgment to Mr. Salmon's in recognizing not even varietal rank 

 for//, lentum. John M. Holzinger. 



