(64 > Rhodora [Marcu 
densely weak-prickly or hispid semi-prostrate stems, which seldom use 
more than 2-3 dm. above the ground. 
OXFORD, CONNECTICUT. 
POLYTRICHUM GRACILE Dicks. IN MarNE.— In one of the wooded 
swamps at Middle Dam, Rangeley Lakes, Maine, there was found in 
Sept., 1906, one small clump of Polytrichum with leaves resembling 
those of Catharinea angustata. Prof. J. Franklin Collins, to whom 
the moss was sent, determined it as P. gracile Dicks. According to 
him, it is not the typical form, but agrees with one of the variations 
noted in Dixon and Jameson’s Handbook of British mosses. ‘The 
leaf-margins are about three times wider than in the type, and the 
lamellae are only three cells high instead of four or five. Prof. 
Collins has not been able to learn of any previous collection of this 
species in Maine.— ELIZABETH MARIE DUNHAM. 
Vol. 9, no. 98, including pages 17 to 28, was issued 25 February, 1907. 
