Abstract
SEVILLE FLOWERS1 In 1928, I collected a specimen of a large Tortula in Cache County, Utah, which I could not match with any of the descriptions in the limited literature available to me at that time. Recently, Mr. Stanley Mulaik, a malacologist and colleague of mine, brought me a similar specimen from Gooding County in southern Idaho which revived my interest. A search through my Tortulae brought forth five additional specimens from northern Utah which I was able to pick out on sight by their large size. In tracing down all the likely species listed by Brotherus in Engler and Prantl's Die natilrlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Tortula papillosissima (Coppey) Broth. seemed to hold the most promise and at length I found a discussion and description of it by Coppey in the Revue Bryologique. The few collections and limited range of the plant appeared to preclude the possibility of obtaining an authentic specimen for comparison with my material, but recently Professor Maurice Bizot, of the University of Dijon, France, sent me an unsolicited sample collected in Lebanon. Comparison of the two plants has satisfied me that they belong to the same species, that may now be added to the moss flora of North America. The following is a description based on American material.
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