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name for the plant with spinose-dentate bracts, considering the two species 
synonyms, an 1 this leaves Warnstorf’s C. divaricata without any name at 
all. So he names this C. trivialis Schiffn. n. sp., and it is so listed by vari- 
ous other writers. It has not apparently been formally published. There- 
fore, at present, C. byssacea Warnst — C. divaricata Schiffn. while C. 
divaricata Warnst. =C. trivialis Schiffn.” 
Schiffner says “the thickenings of the cell-walls in the species of Cepha- 
loziella , according to my previous investigations, vary extraordinarily, 
according to the damper and shady, or sunny and dry station, and cer- 
tainly to a high degree depend directly upon the station.” 
Spruce says of C. divaricata (Sm.) “ Habitat, on the ground, on stones, 
or decaying wood, or overrunning other mosses, but always in a humid site, 
whether shaded or exposed. Probably dispersed throughout the northern 
temperate zone, in the southern, and between the tropics, replaced by closely 
related, but distinct species. It abounds equally in plains and mountains, 
but rarely ascends above the subalpine region.” 
In Macoun’s Catalogue of Canadian Plants, ParLVII, 1902, are given 
numerous stations for C. divaricata (Sm.) Dum., ranging from Greenland, 
Labrador, Nova Scotia, to Lake Superior, Vancouver, British Columbia, and 
Alaska, but there is no mention of C. myriantha. 
As, however, in these stations when the habitat is mentioned, it is, “ wet 
places, damp rocks, ’’etc., the specimens may be assumed to be good C. 
divaricata (Sm. ) Dum . 
In preparing sterile and etiolated forms of C. divaricata for examina- 
tion, it comes up in tufts of parallel stems, looking, on the slide, like minute 
bunches of asparagus. 
Underwood, in Gray's Man. 6 Ed. 1889, does not refer at all to C. myri- 
antha , but describes, p. 712, C. divaricata (Sm.) according to Spruce. He 
says however, “dry rocks and sand, pine barrens of N. J. and northward” 
which seems to point to C. byssacea (Roth.) Warnst. 
All the fertile specimens collected by the writer in Connecticut appar- 
ently should be referred to C. divaricata according to Schiffner as they 
have the spinose-dentate bracts, which is the form listed in the Report on 
the Conn. Bryophytes. The sterile specimens, from damp rocks, are much 
etiolated, and might belong to either form. 
From the range of stations given, these species are obviously of those 
who are not unduly particular in the matter of the geological substratum of 
their habitats. The White Mountains are mostly potassic rocks, with much 
glacial drift in the valleys, while the trap rocks about Hartford contains a 
little lime. 
Most of these small and. to superficial observation, retiring hepaticae, are 
most fastidious in their choice of habitat, but, when the combination of char- 
acters requisite to their satisfaction is once worked out, the collector has but 
to put his hand upon them, 
Schiffner, in an obituary notice of Limpricht, alludes to Bryology as 
“ diesen liebenswiirdigsten Spezialgebiete der Scientis amabilis welches 
aber zugleich zu den schwierigsten gehort.” Although this especial genus is 
confused and vexatious, nevertheless, it is far too interesting to merit neg- 
lect. Hartford. Connecticut. 
