Original Combination:

Likely named for F.W. Bryant who contributed to the discovery of this species

Original Description:

Shell broadly and perspectively umbillicate, discoidal, nearly flat above, and deeply excavated below; whorls, five, gradually increasing, regularly ribbed, outer whorl bicarinate; color, light brown; aperture, small, homboidal; peristome, simple, acute, having its extremities united. Greatest width, 6 1/2, least 5 1/2; height, 2; width of umbilicus, 4 1/2 mill. Habitat, found buried deeply under old logs. Locality, Mitchell county North Carolina. Discovered by A. G. Wetherby, F.W. Bryant and Geo. W. Harper. Note.-- The above apecies bears some resemblence to the carinated varieties of the P. perspectiva, and some may consider it a variety of the latter. If it proves to be so, then we are strongly inclined to the opinion that the P. cumberlandiana is only a carinated variety of the P. alternata, as the analogy between the two is very close.