CEPHALOZIA VIRGINIANA Spruce, On Cephalozia, 37. 1882.
Gametophyte a slender creeping whitish stem; leaves con tiguous or slightly imbricate, obliquely ovate, cleft about to the middle, with acute or acuminate spreading divisions ; leaf-cells isodiametric, about 221a in diameter dioicous or sometimes auto icous ; perianth large, linear-clavate, widest above the middle, the mouth constricted and unequally short-setulose; antheridia in the axils of the leaves of a short spike. Sporophyte an oval-cylindric
reddish brown capsule on a rather long seta.
Through the kindness of Mr. Pearson I have a fragment of the type specimen described by Spruce from Portsmouth, Virginia. The species appears to be more or less widely distributed through the Southern States, but in the absence of mature perianths is dis tinguished with difficulty from the preceding species. It was dis tributed in Hep. Amer. 72.