1903] Collins, — Some Notes on Mosses 20I 
high alpine and arctic tendencies. Conditions as favorable for its 
growth as those at the New Brunswick station appear to exist in 
several places in northern New England and it is to be expected in 
such localities. 
ANACAMPTODON SPLACHNOIDES, (Frölich) Bridel. ‘This moss was 
originally described by Frólich and published in S. E. Bridel's Spe- 
cies Muscorum, Pars II (1812), as Orthotrichum splachnoides. In 
his Mantissa (1819) Bridel transferred the species to a new genus, 
Anacamptodon. For more than forty years it remained the only spe- 
cies in the genus, as it is now understood, and to-day it is apparently 
the only well-known species outside the tropics. It occurs in Europe, 
Asia and North America and is always regarded as a rarity. Prior 
to 1898 it was reported in New England only from the White Moun- 
tains of New Hampshire (Oakes) and from western Massachusetts.’ 
Anacamptodon splachnoides has been collected by the writer at three 
New England stations. One of these was discovered in 1896 in 
North Anson, Somerset County, Maine. ‘The moss was finely fruited, 
growing around an old wound in a living Elm. It apparently fruits 
nearly every year at this station as specimens have been collected in 
fine condition several times since 1896. ‘The other two stations are 
in Providence, Rhode Island. One collection was from the hollow 
‘summit of a decaying stump (July, 1893) and the other from the 
margin of a decaying cavity in a living maple (June, 1903). Mrs. 
M. L. Stevens has collected this moss in Hebron, Oxford County, 
Maine (Sept, 1900), <A. splachnoides was reported from Vermont 
in 1898? and is thus known from five of the New England States. 
It has not been reported from Connecticut though it undoubtedly 
occurs there and is awaiting discovery by some of the sharp eyed 
collectors of that region. 
BRowN UNIVERSITY. 
!Tuckermann and Frost's “Amherst Catalogue " p. 50 (1875) and other pub- 
lications. 
2Grout: Mosses of Vermont. Collected by Dr. G. G. Kennedy. 
