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L. Io)igiJloi'a (Nees) Schiffn. This “handsome species, goodly to look 
upon ” as Nees approvingly characterizes it, was first reported for New 
England by Dr. Evans from Schoodic Lake, Maine. It appears to be rather 
well distributed among the White Mountains, as the writer has collected it 
from three widely separated stations. Eagle Lake on Mt, Lafayette, 4000 ft. 
alt., Carrigain Pond, 3100 ft. alt., and the head-wall of Split Cliff Ravine on 
Mt. Osceola, 3S00 ft. alt., the two latter having plants with perianths. It 
evidently prefers high and cold localities, in the sun. 
Nees, its original author, gives a comprehensive description in his 
Naturges. der Eur. Leberm. and was obviously well acquainted with the 
plant. Schiffner, distributing it in his Hep. Eur. exs. Ill Serie, nos. 138 & 
139, quotes freely from Nees, and differs from Macoun in his Cat. Canadian 
Plants, who puts it on his list, but says “ scarcely a variety.” Probably he 
did not have good plants with perianths. 
It lives among the Sp hag nu!?i, in bogs, the Split Cliff specimens were on 
the Sphagnum on wet rocks at the sides of the headwall. In the field it 
looks like a robust L. ve?itricosa, much’ tinged with carmine, and with fat 
perianths. As it is often pale in color, and is rufily with crowded leaves, it 
bears a superficial resemblance to L. Marchica, but that is delicate apple 
green in color, with purple stems, and comes straggling up through the 
Sphagnum, while L, longijiora crawls about on top. 
The leaves are crowded, teore or less transversally inserted, wide, 
with broad, rounded sinus, and acute lobes. Leaf cells with rather smaller 
^rigones than in L. po 7 ^phyroleuca. The carmine of stem, leaf-bases and 
tips of the shoots affords a safe mark of distinction from the red-brown and 
purple of L. po 7 'phyroIeuca, Rhizoids are abundant. 
The perianth is large, well streaked with carmine, not split into lobes at 
the mouth, and furnished with separate, slightly projecting, one-celled teeth, 
much like L. ve 7 it 7 'icosa. 
Nees dismisses the plants with the statement — “ Mannliche Bliithen 
konnte ich nicht entdecken.” Schiffner says of his exsiccatae specimens 
'•' (P Pflanzen hie und da vertreten,” without further description, but they 
are few and far between. Critical examination of all the New Hampshire 
material resulted in the detection of one cf plant from Carrigain Pond, with 
last year’s bracts. They were intercalary in their mode of growth, there 
were five pairs of bracts, about the same size as the ordinary leaves, but 
gibbous-saccate, and with rather sharper teeth to the lobes. The antheridia 
had departed, and no young spikes could be found. 
