VoL. XIV 
No. 2 
THE BRYOLOGIST 
MARCH 1911 
NEW ENGLAND LOPHOZIAS OF THE 
MUELLERI-GROUP 
ANNIE LORENZ. 
[Presented at the Sullivant Moss Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Dec. 28, 1910.] 
Schiffner\ in one of his most brilliant papers, discusses the tangled 
limestone Lophozias known as the Muelleri-group, or as Mliller^ calls 
them, § Leiocolea of Lophozia. Pie takes up nineteen species as given 
by various authors, and concentrates them into seven, so clearly that 
each requires but a few words of characterization ; while Muller, in 
Lieferung 12, follows him closely. 
Dr. Evans^ says of this group “leaves always bifid; underleaves 
more or less developed, even on slender stems ; perichaetial bracts 
usually but little differentiated from the leaves ; perianth cylindrical 
or barrel-shaped, terete (or slightly plicate in the upper part), con- 
tracted into a tubular beak; perigonial bracts with a third dorsal 
tooth.” 
Of the seven, all but one, the southern-ranging Lophozia turbinata 
(Raddi) St, are reported from North America. Two are now known 
from New England, L. Kaurini (Limpr. ) St, and L. badensis (Gottsche) 
Schiffn. The writer had the good fortune to discover the former on 
July 4, 1910, in Quechee Gulf, Hartford, Vermont, during the sum- 
mer meeting of the Vermont Botanical Club, and it is reported by 
Dr. Evans in Rhodora for October, 1910. This is the second station 
known from North America, the previous one being at Hunker Creek, 
Yukon Territory, ^ where Macoun collected it. 
The plants agree very closely with the original specimens collected 
by Kaurin at Opdal, Luengen, Norway, which were also the blunt- 
lobed form. This may explain why Limpricht considered this as the 
type, instead of the commoner acute-lobed form, which he called var. 
acutifolia ; whereupon Muller comments. ^ 
Quechee Gulf has been worn down by the Ottaquechee River to 
a depth of about 100 ft. in the deepest part, through calciferous mica 
schist containing some hornblende ; the Gulf is also crossed slantingly 
by a trap dyke. Lophozia Kaurini was plentiful upon the damp, sunny 
ledges of the Gulf, and bore abundant young perianths, with their 
noticeable beaks. These plants were of an olive-yellowish-green 
shade, rather than a bright green. 
1. Verhandl, der K. K. Zool.-botan. Gesellsch. in Wien 54:381-405. 1904. 
2. Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora 6:711. 1910. 
3. Rhodora 8:35. 1906. 
4. Evans, Yukon Hepaticae, p. 20. 1903. 
5. Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora 6 : 719, 1910. 
