58. Frullania Asagrayana Mont. On ledges. Oxford. 
59. Frullania eboracensis Gottsche. Common. Bark of living trees: 
maple, walnut, chestnut, arbor vitae, white birch. On stones. Worcester, 
Holden. 
Anthocerotaceae 
60. Notothylas orbicularis (Schwein.) Sulliv. On moist shaded soil. Wor- 
cester. 
61. Anthoceros laevis L. Damp soil by edge of brooks, damp roadsides. 
Worcester, Oxford, Holden. 
62. Anthoceros punctatus L. Damp soil by roadsides and brooks. Wor- 
cester, Holden, Oxford. 
Worcester, Mass. 
SHORTER NOTES 
Lecanora atrosanguinea Merrill and Blastenia Herrei Hasse Identical 
Dr. H. E. Hasse describes a new species of Blastenia in The Bryologist, 
XVII, 6, p. 92, 1914, under the combination B. Herrei Hasse. The novelty of 
this lichen was pointed out by the writer in the Ottawa Naturalist, p. 117, 1913. 
It is there described as new, under the combination Lecanora ( Callopisma ) atrosan- 
guinea. Mr. A. S. Foster, of Washington State, has sent several examples of the 
plant, and it turns up often from Vancouver Island, the type locality. 
G. K. Merrill. 
The name Blastenia Herrei Hasse, n. sp., published in the Bryologist for 
.November, 1914, is void, being antedated by Lecanora atrosanguinea Merrill, 
n. sp., published by Mr. Merrill in the Ottawa Naturalist, p. 117, 1913. I am 
indebted to Prof. John Macoun for a cotype specimen and to Mr. Merrill for a 
copy of his description. A comparison of the two specimens confirms their 
identity. Mr. Merrill’s description was unknown to me when describing Dr. 
Herre’s specimen. Both generic names are correct, according to the system of 
classification adopted: following that of Dr. A. Zahlbruckner the species is a 
Blastenia Section Eublastenia. 
H. E. Hasse. 
The January number of The Bryologist with Grout’s note upon Lepto- 
bryum pyriforme with gemmae reached me just as I was puzzling over the same 
phenomenon. Specimens were brought me a short time before by Mr. H. M. 
Mapes, a student in the Agricultural College of Cornell University, and con- 
sisted of two individual plants upon a glass slide. They had been growing in a 
greenhouse of the Agricultural College, where they had been discovered acci- 
dentally in the investigation of fern prothallia. The soil is said to have con 
tained ashes. 
A. LeRoy Andrews. 
