1904] Collins, — Some Maine Mosses 145 



Some Maine Mossks. — In the latter part of July, 1900, Mr. E. F. 

 Williams and the writer noticed a luxuriant growth of mosses along 

 the course of a tiny rill which trickled down the face of a steep 

 (apparently limestone) ledge near Frenchville, Maine. Upon close 

 inspection it was seen that this mat consisted largely of about half a 

 dozen species. Four of these were not recorded for the state, namely, 

 Distichium capilhueum, (Swz.) Bry. Eur.,' Mytirella Careyana, Sull., 

 Bartratiiia Oederi, (Gunn.) Swz., and Encalypta dliata, (Hedw.) 

 Hoffm. 



The discovery of these plants was very interesting though not sur- 

 prising when we consider that they have been found in adjacent 

 territory, eastward, northward and westward. The Encalypta is the 

 plant which Prof. Kindberg calls E. Macoioii. It is apparently well 

 distributed in Maine. The writer has collected it in PVenchville, 

 Township 18 of Range 10 and in New Limerick — all in Aroostook 

 County — and in Pleasant Ridge in Somerset County. He also has 

 specimens collected by Mr. F^. I). Merrill in Auburn, Androscoggin 

 County, nearly 250 miles from the Frenchville station. At Pleasant 

 Ridge the plant was growing with the same associates as at French- 

 ville. Similar associations of the four species exist in the gorge of 

 the Aroostook River in New Brunswick as shown by specimens col- 

 lected in 1902. 



Beyond the two Maine stations already mentioned for Distichium 

 capillaceum this species was collected on the ist of September, 1903, 

 associated with Afyurella Carey ana and Bartramia Oederi near 

 Moxie Falls, Somerset County. At this station it was also growing 

 in company with Homalia trichomitrion, vxr. /amesii, (Schpr.) Holz. 

 — another moss which has not hitherto been reported from Maine. 

 This Homalia was first collected by the writer on the 4th of August, 

 1896, in Stony Brook "Canyon," Carrying Place Plantation, Somer- 

 set County, and again on the ist of July, 1903, at Skowhegan in the 

 same county where it was quite abundant on two or three granite 

 boulders in the woods. 



It is a noteworthy fact that at all the stations here mentioned for 

 Distichium capillacetim it has invariably been associated with Mytirella 

 Careyana. This social tendency is also in evidence in Europe, as 

 shown by specimens collected by Jack in Switzerland and by Oldberg 



1 This species has recently been rejiorted from Miiine, in the "(Offerings" in 

 The Bryologist for January, 1904. 



