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io. Anthoceros crispulus Douin. 
Collected in September, 1913, on a moist bank, at Highlands, Monmouth 
County, New Jersey, by Miss C. C. Haynes and the writer. The third North 
American station for the species. The first stations to be recorded were Andover 
and West Hartford, Connecticut, where the plant was discovered in 1911 by Miss 
Annie Lorenz 1 . In all probability it will be found to have a wide distribution 
in North America, as well as in Europe, when the characters separating it from 
A. punctatus L. are better understood. 
Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University. 
A NEW SPECIES OF BLASTENIA 
H. E. Hasse 
Blastenia (Sect. Eublastenia , A. Zahlbr.) herrei Hasse, n. sp. Thallus 
scaly-crustaceous, subdeterminate, pale greenish ash-color; hypothallus pale, 
indistinct, KHO — ; disk crimson to blackening. Apothecia mostly slightly, 
elevated, 0.5 to 1.25 mm. wide; disk flat with a concolorous, thin, slightly prom- 
inent, entire or wavy and even sinuate proper margin. Epithecium granulose, 
dark violet-purple; paraphyses stout, loose, slightly thickened above and with 
one or two sub-capitate septa, some forked above; thecium pale sordid roseate ;. 
hypothecium of same hue, but darker; asci more or less inflated clavate, their 
apices reaching the sharply defined colored surface of the epithecium, 8-spored. 
Spores ovoid-ellipsoid to oblong ellipsoid, both ends rounded, polarilocular, 
connected by a delicate isthmus, this and the polar cells, approximate in a few 
spores, are at first indicated by minute oil cells that disappear after KHO, ex- 
ospore thin; spores 14 /jl to 19/z long, S/j, to I2/jl thick (Dr. Herre’s measurements 
are io/j. long, 5^ to 7/, 1 thick). Hym. gel. with iodine stains a handsome blue, 
with KHO violet-purple. Spermogones . not seen. 
On bark, Ten Mile Tp., Whatcom Co., Washington. Collected by Dr. 
A. C. Herre, for whom it is named. 
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXAN OXYMITRA (TESSEL- 
LINA) 
Marshall A. Howe 
In a recent number of The Bryologist ( 17 : 72-75) the writer announced 
the discovery in Texas of a Ricciaceous hepatic representing a primarily Mediter- 
ranean genus not before recorded for North America. The more or less compli- 
cated synonymy of the genus and of its single currently recognized species was 
there discussed, and the peculiarities of the Texan plant were there considered 
insufficient to distinguish it specifically from Oxymitra paleacea, better known as 
Tessellina pyramidata, the one recognized species of the genus. However, a 
See Evans, Rhodora 14 : 16. 1912. 
