according to Fleischer. In the Entodontaceae , Orthothecium acuminatum 
Bryhn and 0 . trie hophy llum (Sw.) Fleischer are listed. I cannot agree with 
this last.decision, for although the moss which has been known heretofore a s 
Lepyrodon trichophyllus is undoubtedly not correctly placed in the genus 
Lepyrodon on account of its double peristome, it does not seem to me to 
belong with the Orthotheciums. The genus Pilotrichum includes six new 
species, Cyclodictyon three and Rhynchostegiopsis one. Stereohypnum is 
accepted for Microthamnium and Plagiothecium fallax is added for Alaska. 
A list of fossil mosses is appended in which we do not find included any of 
the American species listed in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 34: 
139-142, pi. 9, 1907, including the two recently described species Rhynchos- 
tegium Knowltoni and Glyphomitrium Cocke.relleae. The index includes 
families and genera only, so that unless the plan followed by us of underlin- 
ing the N. A. species and indicating on the margins the sectional 
divisions is adopted, the student will search a weary while ere he 
find the species he is looking for, unless he has a card catalogue as well. 
We congratulate Dr. Brotherus on the completion of this work and hope that 
he may not be hindered with too many miscellaneous collections to name as a 
reward of his labors, but that ho will find time to undertake the revision of 
some of the geliera which are greatly in need of further critical study. We 
may not, and probably all do not, agree with some of the dispositions he has 
made of genera and species, nor the names he has adopted, but we are grate- 
ful to him for a modern and comprehensive treatment of a large and difficult 
group of plants, and we feel that such a. vast undertaking could not have 
been better done by any one else in so short a time — 1901-1909. 
New York Botanical Garden. 
HEPATICAE IN FICTION. 
Annie Lorenz. 
References to the Hepaticae are rare in general fiction, but the following 
appears in Charles Lever’s “Harry Lorrequer,” c apter four. (Harry 
Lorrequer, a rollicking young officer, is visiting at an Irish castle, and is in 
high favor with the ladies. They are showing him through the conservator- 
ies, and ask his opinion of some new plants.) 
“ Get Smith’s book there,” said Lady Callonby, rising, “ and let me have 
your arm; and now, young ladies, come along, and learn something, if you 
can.” Here her ladyship pointed to a little scrubby thing, that looked like a 
birch rod, I proceeded to examine it most minutely, while Collins (the head 
gardener) waited with all the intense anxiety of a man whose character 
depended on the sentence. 
“ Collins will have it a Jungermania,” said she. “And Collins is right,” 
said I, not trusting myself with the pronunciation of the awful word her 
ladyship uttered'. 
