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above, the species may now be cited from the following localities: Orange and 
Hamden, Connecticut (/. A. Allen ) x ; Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Coker) 1 2 ; 
Sanford, Florida (Rapp); Oakland, Tennessee (Bain 2); Pine Bluff, Arkansas 
(Bain 1); Pinar del Rio, Cuba, C. Wright); Province of Santiago, Cuba (Pollard 
& Palmer 8 ); near Cayey, Porto Rico (A. W. E.). 
Lindberg’s original publication of F. salina can hardly be regarded as ade- 
quate. He comments on the fact that the plant is paroicous and therefore dis- 
tinct from F. angulosa Raddi, with which Austin had confused it. He states 
further that it probably represents a new species and gives the name F. salina 
Lindb. in parentheses. But he does not publish the plant formally under this 
name, and the Vienna Rules would probably interpret his statements as “inci- 
dental mention” and not as publication. Both Underwood and Stephani list 
F. salina among their doubtful species, without describing it, so that the writer’s 
description in Rhodora must be considered the first valid publication of the species. 
In Stephani’s revision of the genus Fossombronia in the first volume of his Species 
Hepaticarum 3 , he published as a new species F. brasiliensis Steph., quoting 
specimens from Brazil (Puiggari, Ule), Cuba (Wright), and Dominica (Elliott). 
This species, which the writer knows from description only, is evidently very 
close to F. salina, although the size of the plant is less. It is said to be dis- 
tinguished also by its dioicous inflorescence, but there is, of course, a possibility 
that the species is really monoicous and that the antheridia are difficult to demon- 
strate at the time of the maturity of the capsules. If F. brasiliensis and F. 
salina should ever be proved synonymous, the name F. brasiliensis should stand 
for the species, because the adequate publication of this name was earlier than 
that of F. salina. Until this is done, however, the retention of the name F . 
salina for the species seems justifiable. 
3. Nardia Geoscyphus (DeNot.) Lindb. 
In the third paper of this series 4 the present species was recorded from Nova 
Scotia, an extension of its range in a northeasterly direction. A few months 
ago it was reported from Bolton, Connecticut, the material having been collected 
by Miss Annie Lorenz. 5 It is now possible to extend its range still farther to 
the southward, into New Jersey, on the basis of specimens collected by Miss 
C. C. Haynes and the writer in the township of Middletown, Monmouth County, 
in September, 1913. 
Some time ago Stephani 6 doubtfully included among the synonyms of N. 
Geoscyphus a species- from Tallulah Falls, Georgia, originally named Alicularia 
Lescurii by Austin 7 and afterwards called Nardia Lescurii by Underwood 8 . 
This species was first found by Leo Lesquereux in 1850 and was rediscovered by 
A. B. Seymour in 1901. Lesquereux’s specimens were distributed by Austin in 
1 See Evans & Nichols, Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull, n: 46. 1908. 
2 Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sc. Soc. 20 : 4. 1904. 
3 Mem. Herb. Boissier 16: 28. 1900. 
4 Bryolqgist 15 : 55. 1912. 
5 Rhodora 16 : 76. 1914. 
6 Bull. Herb. Boissier II. 1 : 481. 1901. 
7 Bull. Torrey Club 6: 18. 1875. 
8 Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. Hist. 2 : 115. 1884. 
