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and H. acutifolia Hook, from “Nepal and Sikkim, Ceylon and Java, Guade- 
loupe, Ecuador and Brazil.” We have three sets of specimens of this species 
from Jamaica in fruit and careful comparisons recently made with the type 
from Nepal, India, and with other specimens and exsiccatae cited below, have 
forced a conviction that H. Sullivantii C. M. is identical with it. Fruiting 
specimens were collected in Virginia and figured in the Memoirs of the Torrey 
Botanical Club for 1894. Sullivant issued his Nos. 270 and 401 of the Musci 
bor. Am. as H. acutifolia? and this query proves to be true. 
Hookeria acutifolia Hook. ; Schwaegr. Suppl. 2. 2: 36. pi. 163. 1826. 
Hookeria Grevilleana Griff. Not. PI. Asiat. 473. 1849. 
Hookeria lucens acuminata C. Miill. Syn. 2: 202. 1850. 
Pterygophyllum acutifolium Schimp, Syn. 2; 583. 1876. 
Hookeria{?) Sullivantii C. Miill.; Lesq, & James, Man. 293. 1884. 
Pterygophyllum acwninatum Par. 4 : 1051. 1898. 
Plants light yellowish green, forming glossy luminous tufts in wet places; 
stems 2-4 cm. high; leaves 5-7 mm. long x 1.5-2 mm. broad, ovate to lance- 
olate, acuminate, ecostate; cells rhomboidal, the apical smaller, often root- 
ing at apex; marginal cells larger, entire. Perichetial leaves smaller, 
narrower, acuminate. Dioicous ; antheridia in small buds at base of stems. 
Seta stout, erect or curved, 1-2 cm. long; capsule horizontal, 2-3 mm. ; lid 
long-rostrate equalling the urn ; annulus none: cells of walls dark red, thick; 
peristome dark red: teeth brittle, slender and papillose at apex; endostome 
yellow, smooth, not perforate, without cilia, but with 1-2 intermediate rows of 
cells: spores green with large chlorophyll grains, .013-021 mm., smooth, 
maturing in winter: 
Habitat: In damp woods, under dripping ledges and along banks of 
streams in mountains. 
Type locality: Nepal, India. W. J. Hooker. 
Distribution: India, Nepal, Sikkim, Ceylon and Java; North Ameri- 
ica, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia; South 
America, Ecuador and Brazil; West Indies, Jamaica and Guadeloupe. 
Exsiccatae: Sullivant Musci Alleghanienses No. 58. 1845 as Hookeria 
lucens Smith; Sullivant & Lesquereux Musci Boreali-Americani 270. 1856, 
401. 1865, as H. acutifolia Hook.? No. 39. Fleischer Musci Frond. Archipelagi 
Indici, 1898. 
Illustrations: Schwaegr. Suppl. 2. 2: pi. 163. 1826; Griffith Ic. PI. 
Asiat. pl. 99. f. 4. 1849; Mem. Torrey Club 4: 189. pi. 80. 1894. 
New York Botanical Garden. 
SOME BRITISH COLUMBIA LICHENS. 
Thomas Hebden. 
Mr. John Hooson, Mining Recorder’s Office, Rossland, B. C., having 
made a collection of Lichens of the district has forwarded the same for veri- 
fication which I have the pleasure of reporting as under: 
