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moose, Vol. II, p. 534), ‘‘Capsule unstriped, not furrowed, dioicous.” These 
three points agree perfectly with both our west coast plants. Nor was I encour- 
aged to place them here on reading the original description of the genus in Sch. 
Syn. 2 Ed. p. 513: “ Plants caespitose, quite stout, very radiculose. Leaf 
arrangement and leaf structure as in the genus Bartramia. Flowers dioicous, 
the male ones gemmiform. Capsule on a short pedicel (whence the Greek 
name meaning “short foot ”), . erect, spherical, symmetrical, not striped, 
when dry not sulcate, but strongly wrinkled or rugulose, leptodermous, with 
a much shorter spore sac. Peristome none. Spore as in Bartramia. The 
genus is very distinct from Glyphocarpa Rob. Brown. It differs from Bar- 
tramia by the capsule being quite leptodermous, unstriped, when dry not 
furrowed and by the mouth being always naked. Several exotic species are 
known.” Thus says Schimper. 
The only species the description of which is accessible to me is Anacolia 
Webbii{ Mont.) Schimp. inLimpricht. Laubmoose, Vol. II, p. 547, has ascribed 
to it “very strongly prickly-papillose radicles, lamina mamillose on both 
sides,” neither of which characters is found on our two American plants. 
From the genus as characterized by Schimper they seemed at first sight 
excluded by the presence of a peristome, and by the shape of the capsule, 
however fitting into it in other respects. So I find myself in a measure recon- 
ciled to the view indicated in Paris’ Index which correctly gives, first Ana- 
colia Baueri (Hpe.) Par., as the name for our Oregon plant; second, 
Anacolia Menziezii (Turn.) Par., as that for the more southerly plant. 
The admission of these American plants into the genus Anacolia 
demands a modification of Schimper’s characterization, somewhat as follows: 
Anacolia Schimp. emend — Plants caespitose, more or less strongly cohering 
below the shoots of the season by a felt of brown radicles which are either 
prickly-papillose or minutely roughened. Branching monopodial and 
dichasial. Stem eight-angled, rough-papillose. Leaf arrangement eight- 
ranked ; leaf form and reticulation as in Bartramia, but leaf base not 
sheathing at all. Inflorescence dioicous, antheridial buds gemmiform. Cap- 
sule usually on a short pedicel (the names does not literally apply to the 
American representatives), erect, spherical or cylindrical, symmetrical or 
slightly curved, unstriped, when dry not furrowed but, strongly rugulose, 
leptodermous, with a shorter, loose spore sac and a persistent columella (in 
the American species). Peristome none or consisting of 16 so-called teeth, 
and these inserted half their length below the mouth of the capsule. 
In this sense we can admit our two west coast mosses into the genus 
Anacolia. Of course the question of the full specific value of Anacolia 
Baueri is unsettled; that it is different from A. Menziezii is certain, but 
whether to write it as a variety of the latter species becomes largely a matter 
of taste. Winona, Minn. 
