— 1 6 — 
14. Rhacomitrium fasciculare (Schrad.) Brid. Mant. p. 80. 1819. 
Plants dirty-green or brownish. Stems up to 12 cm. long; elongated branches 
none to several, short tuft-like lateral branches numerous. Leaves lanceolate, 
without hyaline point, gradually narrowed to a blunt tip; margin 1 cell thick 
throughout; vein extending to within a few cells of the apex; surfaces somewhat 
sunken over the cell-cavities. Upper leaf-cells 3-4 times as long as wide, middle 
and lower ones 4-6 times. Dioicous. Calyptra rough throughout. Seta 4-12 
mm. long, twisted to the right. Capsule-body 2-2.4 mm - long; lid ^ the length 
of the capsule-body. Peristome-teeth .6 mm. long, split into 2 parts nearly 
to base, densely papillose. Spores 12-16/x. — Alaska and Yukon to Washington 
and Montana. 
Limpricht in Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora says the seta is twisted 
once to the left just below the capsule. The material examined showed no twist 
to the left. 
University of Washington, 
Seattle, Wash. 
NOTES ON RECENT BRYOLOGICAL LITERATURE 
Dr. Alexander W. Evans 1 has recently revised the hepatic genus Herberta , 
giving a short historical sketch, a discussion of the morphology, and a critical 
revision of the species. Of the four species recognized, two, H. adunca (Dicks.) 
Gray, and H. Sendtneri (Nees) Evans, are wholly European, while H. Hutchin- 
siae (Gottsche) Evans, and H. tenuis Evans occur in North America. All the 
species are fully figured. 
In the November issue of the Torrey Bulletin 2 a new hepatic, Lejeunea 
minutiloba, is described and figured. Its nearest relatives are L. floridana Evans 
and L. glaucescens Gottsche. The author states that the new species is to be 
expected in Florida and Mexico. 
We clip the following from Science. N. S. xlvi. Nr. 1197: “The eighth 
number of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science contains . 
Growth of Isolated Sporophytes of Anthoceros: Douglas Houghton Campbell, 
department of Botany, Leland Stanford University. The young sporophyte of 
Anthoceros Pearsoni, separated from its association with the gametophyte, is 
capable of limited growth in length and is able to mature normal spores and 
elaters from the young sporogenous tissue.” 
Sr. Machado, 3 whose work we have already noticed, contributes to the last 
issue of Broteria a running account of the bryology of the Sierra Estella and of the 
Sierra Geres, with a list of 100 mosses and 5 hepatics. In the same issue Father 
1 Alexander W. Evans. Notes on the Genus Herberta, with a Revision of the species known 
from Europe, Canada, and the United States. Bull. Torr. Club. 44: 191-222. pi. 8. figs. 1-29 • 
<Ap. 1917). 
2 Alexander W. Evans. A new Lejeunea from Bermuda and the West Indies. Bull. Torr. 
Bot. Club. 44: 525-528. pi. 24. (Nov. 1917-) 
3 Antonio Machado. Notas de Briologia Portuguesa. Broteria. 15: 49-63. (Aug. 19 1 7-) 
