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Dr. Conklin. The structure of the thallus of this plant struck me as peculiar. 
I began to study it with enthusiasm and made drawings; the figures looking 
strangely familiar, I turned to Muller “Die Lebermoose” of Europe and soon 
realized the reason when I came to his figures and description of the genus. 
Dr. Evans, who verified my determination, has consented to give a descrip- 
tion of this genus in the next series of his Notes. 
I add figures of the cross-section of the thallus of this plant as well as of that 
of Preissia quadrata, its nearest neighbor in point of relationship. The pores, 
it will be noticed, are similar. Immediately beneath the epidermis, lamellae 
form open spaces in the air chambers, and these are quite, in Preissia , filled in 
with close-set upright chains of cells. 
It is hoped that botanists will examine their specimens of Preissia, for it is 
highly probable that some of these will prove to be Bucegia. 
The accompanying figures were drawn from specimens No. 792, A. H . 
Brinkman (figs. A and B), and 585, A. H. Brinkman (figs. C and D); BucegiaX 
romanica Radian and Preissia quadrata (Scop.) Nees, respectively. 
Highlands, New Jersey 
SHORTER NOTES 
Recent issues of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club contain several 
articles of especial interest to readers of the Bryologist. In the January issue 
Mrs. Britton 1 lists the results of the study of a collection of mosses made on the 
island of St. Thomas and neighboring islets. No previous lists are extant, 
though two small collections had previously been made. For the sake of com- 
pleteness these are included in the list of 28 species given. Three species are 
proposed as new, Hyophila uliginosa, Phascum sessile , and Bryum micwdecur- 
rens, of which the first two are figured. In the same issue also there is an ac- 
count 2 with two figures of a new fossil moss recently discovered in the shale at 
Florissant, Colorado. This species, Plagiopodiopsis Scudderi, is the second 
occurrence known in America of a fruiting moss in the fossilized condition, 
though a few other species have been found sterile. Some interesting notes upon 
these are given in the Bryologist Vol. 6, page 93. 
The interesting paper upon Bermuda mosses 3 which Mrs. Britton read at 
the meeting of the Sullivant Moss Society last December is published in full in 
the February Bulletin. An abstract of this has already been given on pages 
17 and 18 of this volume of the Bryologist. The plates show the details of 
structure in two mosses, Syrrhopodon floridanus and Rhacopilum tomentosum, 
that occur in the extreme Southern States. 
1 Elizabeth G. Britton. West Indian Mosses — II. Mosses of the Danish West Indes and 
V'rgin Islands. Bull. Torrey Club 42 : 1-8. pi. 1. (1915.) 
2 Elizabeth G. Britton and Arthur Hollick. A New American Fossil Moss. Bull. Torrey 
Club 42: 9-10. figs, i, 2. (191SO 
3 Elizabeth G. Britton. The Mosses of Bermuda. Bull. Torrey Club 42 : 71-76- pis. 6 , 7. 
(1915.) 
