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informs me that this species of Panicum, originally described from the 

 pine-barrens of New Jersey, has not before been reported from New 

 England. I have never seen the New Jersey barrens, but I imagine 

 the region in which I found my Panicum is not unlike them. It is a 

 tract of low sand hills and plains, covered for the most part with rather 

 sparse and scraggy woods, but here and there bare of all vegetation. 

 It was on the edge of such a " sand-blow " that the Panicum grew. 

 P. xanthophysum is another denizen of the same region, which can 

 be found by a sufficiently patient seeker. It took me an hour and a 

 half last summer to find two small plants — but it is there. — C. A. 

 Weatherby, East Hartford, Connecticut. 



Some Interesting Mosses from a Southern Vermont Peat- 

 bog. — A peat-bog of Pownal, Vermont, which furnishes a station for 

 several flowering plants of northern range, is also the abode of several 

 mosses considered uncommon in New England. Especially worthy 

 of mention are the following : Hypnum cuspidatum, L., Hypniini 

 vernicosum, Lindb., Polytriclium strkium, Banks., Camptotheciufn 

 nitens, Sch., Meesia tristicha, Br. & Sch. and Dicranum Boiijeani, 

 DeNot. All are species of more or less northern tendencies. All 

 except the last are included in the Vermont list, but with not more 

 than one or two stations, generally much farther north. The Poly- 

 trichum is a species associated in New England rather with alpine 

 mountain summits than with lowland peat-bogs. The Dicranum Dr. 

 True characterizes as representing the typical form of the species, a 

 form which he considers rare. The species has not been included in 

 the Vermont list. The mosses of this peat-bog, which is an espe- 

 cially wet and spongy one, if the matter is one admitting of compari- 

 son, are by no means profuse in the matter of spore-production. 

 The only one of the above to fruit even comparatively freely is the 

 Dicranum. Meesia is sufficiently conspicuous with its distinctly 

 three-ranked leaves, and I was doubly delighted to find the past 

 summer a small tuft bearing numerous sporophytes, very striking 

 indeed with long seta and pendulous capsule upon a long, erect 

 apophysis. In the summer of 1902 a small tuft of Camptothecium 

 also produced fruit, an uncommon occurrence for the species. The 

 other species mentioned were sterile. Of more common sorts, I 

 noted Aulacomniitm palusire sparingly fruited in 1901, though it 



