RIKSMUSEETS PALEOBOTANISKA AVDELNING
STOCKHOLM 50

May 9 1958

Professor A. W. Evans
Osborn Botanical Laboratory
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Prof. Evans:

Some few days ago I got from Hattori the last number of his fine journal, printed in January. You may understand how surprised I was when I read a preliminar paper of Hattori and his pupil Inoue about the new genus Takakia (new order Takakiales, in the Bryophytes), named after XXXXXXXX Dr Takaki who collected it on a high mountain in Japan in 1951, later it has been collected three times more, also in other places, always in high altitudes. At once I saw the figures I understood that it was the same thing which I collected last summer in Queen Charlotte Islands and which I began to study in the beginning of this year. Uncertain indeed where † should place it, it seems to be rather isolated, may be representing some old stem comparable with the hepatics or with the bryophyts. May be in some respects inter algae and bryophytes.

I send you a specimen from your herbarium.

From Queen Charlotte Islands I have several hepatics as well as mosses new to North America. For the moment I can not work with them because I have promised to work out some Antarctic collections but I hope soon to take up the study again.

In the Bryologist this year there will appear a list of what Prof. Weber, Boulder, collected in the MtMcKinley region 2 years ago. They are mostly worked out by me, besides all bryophytes reported from this region are listed, in all 280 species. New hepatics for N.America are *Gymnomitrium apiculatum* and *Marsupella commutata*. Since the list was written I have heard from Japan that in the last years these two species are collected also there (but not established yet).
With my best wishes

Herman Persson

PS. Please give my regards also to Dr. Castle.

Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum
Stockholm

Takakia lepidozioides Hattori & Inoue
Canada. British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Islands, Moresby I., along a brook in the alpine region just above the tree limit, above an unnamed lake on the W. side of the island, alt. ca. 650 m.

29 July - 2 Aug.
1957

leg. Herman Persson

Yale University Herbarium

YU-235866