1900) Merrill, — Mosses from Katahdin Iron Works, Maine 61 
ELEOCHARIS DIANDRA IN CENTRAL NEW York. — It will be interesting 
to all lovers of cyperaceous plants to know that the long-neglected and 
little-known Æ/eocharis diandra, so well described by Charles Wright, 
Bull. Torr. Club, x. ror, has at last been found in sufficient quantity to 
determine its merits as a good species, concerning which there can no 
longer be any doubt. 
On making a thorough examination of some specimens of an 
Eleocharis, which I had gathered in July, 1883, on the sandy borders 
of Oneida Lake, in the towns of Verona, Oneida county, and Lenox, 
Madison county, and which had been taken to be a form of Æ. inter- 
media Schultes, I was at once attracted by the beautiful little cuneate- 
obovate achenes and lack of any bristles. My suspicions were aroused, 
and on referring to Mr. Fernald’s Contributions from the Gray Herb. 
New Series, No. xv. 496, Æ. diandra C. Wright, with the accompany- 
ing plates, seemed to solve the doubt, and specimens were sent to Mr. 
Fernald, who has kindly verified the determination. 
The plant was found in company with Cyperus aristatus Rottb. and 
Hemicarpha subsquarrosa Nees., and is very common in the Oneida 
Lake locality. Its recent re-discovery in the Connecticut Valley and 
my own finding of it at a station somewhat identical, confirms me in 
the opinion that it has merely been overlooked in other places, and 
that it will be found in intermediate and similar localities, and eventu- 
ally receive the attention it deserves, and add honor to the memory of 
the lamented New England botanist, who first described the species. 
— Joeren V. HABERER, M. D., Utica, N. Y. 
A LIST OF MOSSES COLLECTED AT KATAHDIN IRON 
WORKS, MAINE. 
ELMER D. MERRILL. 
THE following list of mosses and scale-mosses were collected in the 
vicinity of Katahdin Iron Works, during a stay of one day at that place, 
in November, 1898. This region appears to be very rich in moss 
flora, and it is a matter of regret that. more time could not have been 
given to collecting at this place. 
The species marked with an asterisk have never before been re- 
ported in print from the state, and the number of species new to the 
state in this short list, gives some idea of the amount of work yet to be 
