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A LONG LOST GENUS TO THE UNITED STATES— ERPODIUM 
(BRID.) M. C. 
By a strange series of accidents and mishaps a rare moss which was col- 
lected by W. S. Sullivant in Georgia sixty years ago, and was described by 
Austin thirty- two years later, has remained in oblivion ever since 1877 and 
has only been rediscovered in connection with my studies of West Indian 
mosses! Owing to its resemblance to Frullania or Lejeunia, it had been 
sent to Manchester, England, with Austin’s Hepatics which were sold to W. 
H. Pearson. Subsequently it was returned to the Herbarium of Columbia 
University and placed among the Hepaticse, where Dr. Howe rediscovered it. 
Dr. Evans has supplied me with the following references, and the descrip- 
tion is drawn from Austin’s specimens. 
Krpodium biseriatum (Austin) Austin Bot. Gaz. 2:142, 1877. 
Lejeimia biseriata Austin Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 21:225. 1869. 
Stem slender, 1 cm. long and about 1 mm. wide. Leaves 0.40-0.50 mm. 
long, unequal at base, with distinct hexagonal or rounded cells at apex, 
0.005 x 0.013 mm. in diameter with thick brown walls, basal and central cells 
longer and narrower, 0.010 x0.040 mm., the translucent marginal cells not 
papillose, dorsal cells with from 4-8 minute papillae. Fruit unknown. 
Collected with Lejeunia Sullivantii by W. S. Sullivant, near Augusta, 
Georgia, in 1845. 
Dr. Small' tips me that the region around Augusta is very hot and moist, 
with densely wooded river swamps, where mosses and hepatics abound. 
This would account for the occurrence of this tropical genus within our lim- 
its, as its nearest relative E. Cubense and E. Domingense are in Cuba, Santo 
Domingo, Porto Rico and Jamaica, with another species, E. diversifolivm, 
in Mexico. Full descriptions of these will be found in the Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club for May. Elizabeth G. Britton 
NEW OR UNRECORDED MOSSES OF NORTH AMERICA. 
By J. Cardot and I. Theriot. 
Translated and condensed from The Botanidal Gazette, May, 1904. 
Descriptions of new species given in full. See Bryologist, January and 
March, 1905. 
Bartramia ithyphylla Brid. var. fragilifolia Card. & Ther. 
Differs from the type in its rigid, fragile, much broken leaves. 
Colorado: Along the Cogwheel Railroad to Pike’s Peak, alt. 2100-3000121. 
(J. M. Holzinger, 1896). 
By its brittle and usually broken leaves, this form much resembles 
B. breviseta Lindb., but in the latter the leaf base is hardly glossy and less 
abruptly contracted to the subula. 
Webera chlorocarpa Card. & Ther. 
Rather densely caespitose, covered with soil at the base, fuscous green 
below, above yellowish. Stems 1-2 cm. long, erect, simple or divided. 
