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American species listed by Brotherus and Paris Index are not cited: 
P. acutiflora Kindb., Victoria, Vancouver Island; P. amblyoblasta 
(C. M.) Jaeg., Mexico; P. Bernoullii (C. M.) Par., Guatemala; P. 
Berteroana (C. M.) Besch., Trinidad; P. glabriuscula Kindb., Canada: 
P. graminicola (C. M.) Jaeg., Mexico; P. Hanseni (C. M.) Par., 
Jamaica, Kingston; P. ligulata (C. M.) Par., Porto Rico; P. pumila 
Kindb., Canada; P. salvadorlca C. M., Honduras; P. subsphaerocarpa 
Broth., Martinique. 
Monsieur Dismier states that P. calcarea has not yet been found in 
North America and all the specimens, so-called, are referable to P. 
fontana, but in a recent letter he decided that a specimen from the 
Mitten Herbarium collected by Lieber in Martinique appears to be 
correctly so named. He also says that he feels greatly the deficiencies 
of the Revision and proposes to continue his studies. He has estab- 
lished the fact that two species from the southern United States range 
through the West Indies to South America, but one point in nomen- 
clature which hinges on this distribution. Monsieur Dismier has failed 
to grasp, and that is, that Bariramia glaucescens Hsch. (1840) ante- 
dates B. tenella C. M. (1849) and that it should therefore be known 
as P. glaucescens (Hsch. ) Paris. He also has failed to take up an- 
other older specific name, for B. longiseta (Michx. flor. bor. Am. 2 : 
301. 1803) antedates B. radicalis P. B. (1805) and it should therefore 
become Philonotis longiseta (Michx.) E. G. B. new comb. 
New York Botanical Garden. 
REVISION OF THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF 
PHILONOTIS. 
G. DISMIER. 
Translation by E. B. Chamberlain. 
[In the following translation of M. Dismier’s Revision des Philonotis 
de r Amerique I have limited myself to those species and varieties 
which are found in the United States and Canada, save that the Key 
to the Species is given in full. On account of the difficulty of obtain- 
ing descriptions of the species in the sense adopted by M. Dismier, 
I have added short descriptive notes for nearly all the species, as 
well as references to plates and a few additional synonyms. In each 
case the source of this description is given, in nearly all cases 
M. Dismier’s “Essai Monographique sur les Philonotis de France,” 
published in the Memoires de la Societe nationale des Sciences naturel- 
les et mathematiques de Cherbourg, Vol. 36, pages 367 to 428.(1908). 
I wise to express my thanks to Mrs. E. G. Britton, Rev. H. 
Dupret, and especially to M. Dismier for the kind assistance that has 
been given me in this work, — E. B. C.] 
