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NOTES ON CEPHALOZIELLA (SPRUCE) SCHNIFFNER. 
[Read at the Sullivant Moss Society Meeting, Baltimore, 1908.] 
Annie Lorenz. 
In one of his “ Bryologische Fragmente,” Schiffner characterizes the 
above as “die aiisserst schwierige Gattung Cephaloziella a comment 
wherein he is quite justified, as the dioicous species, in particular, at present 
offer a sufficiently cheerful tangle to anyone desirous of unravelling them. 
During the past season the writer’s attention has been called to some of 
the species of this genus, which upon examination resolve themselves into 
C. myriantha (Lindb.) Schiffn., and forms of C. divaricata (Sm.) Schiffn. 
Specimens of both have been examined from different parts of New Eng- 
land, C. divaricata being reported from all the New England states, while C. 
my riant ha is as yet only from N. H., Mass., and Conn., as well as N. Y. 
The two have undoubtedly been confused, probably from lack of fertile 
material. This is perhaps the reason that C. myriantha has been hitherto 
overlooked in New Hampshire, where it is extremely common in the proper 
sort of stations. It is emphatically a northern species, and its southern range 
is not yet definitely known. Its paroicous inflorescence at once distinguishes 
it from its New England allies. 
Lindberg first described C. myriantha in the proceedings of the Societas 
pro Flora et Fauna Fennica, Vol. i, Feb. 6, 1875, as follows: “in which 
genus Cephalozia the president has found two which he suspected to be 
undescribed species, one of which, by him named myriantha. yet possibly 
could be identical with J; rubella Nees. This first named, which he met 
with in various places about Ladoga, Helsingfors, Stockholm and Ostergoth- 
land, is distinguished without difficulty, in that it is the smallest of the genus, 
through simple plants, larger and broader leaves, especially toward the apex 
of the stem, where they are strongly serrate, and consisting of rounded, 
strongly thickened cells, together with paroicous inflorescence.” 
Spruce does not pay very much attention to C. myriantha beyond quot- 
ing Lindberg’s northern stations for it, but he describes C. Jackii Limpr. at 
somewhat greater length, and quotes German stations, with notes concern- 
ing certain German specimens seen by him. 
Warnstorf gives an excellent description of C. Jackii in Kryptogamen- 
fiora der Mark Brandenburg, p. 230, but makes no mention of C. myriantha. 
Schiffner, however, in Bryologische Fragmente No. 7, discusses C. Jackii 
and C. myriantha in detail, and poncludes that they are identical. He says 
that it was first supposed that C. myriantha was the northern, and C. Jackii 
the central European form, but finds among his Norwegian specimens some 
labelled C. myriantha , which are good C. Jackii, according to the descrip- 
tions. 
C. myriantha was first collected in New Hampshire by the Sullivant 
Moss Society’s committee on Mt. Lafayette, during the Appalachian Moun- 
tain Club’s meeting of July, 1908. 
It is common on all the summits about Waterville, N. H., descending 
also into the valley. It is a true xerophyte, growing on dry exposed barren 
